One Monthly Goal :: November 2017

This is my 11th month of setting a One Monthly Goal with Elm Street Quilts. I haven't hit 100%, but I've hit the majority of my goals. I know that I have made several of those goals especially because I shared with the world that I was going to finish it. That is especially the case with last month's goal, Stella's memory quilt.  I'm so glad to have had the accountability to get that quilt in the hands of her mama.

So now we're in the home stretch of 2017. I have a bunch of quilt along finishing up and I have three quilts for Las Vegas to finish quilting,  but my goal is to finish another comfort quilt. It's for a friend who was just diagnosed with Stage 4 colorectal cancer that has already spread to her lungs and liver. The outlook isn't good and she is feeling all the things you would expect of someone dealt such a blow.

On her better days, she cracks jokes about the type of cancer she has. Colon cancer is messy. It's stinky. And it's really cruel. This friend is not one for flowers and platitudes. The idea for her quilt came to me late one night and immediately got up and sketched it out.

The letters will be pieced using Lori Holt's awesome new book, Spelling Bee, which  I already know I will be using over and over. And if you don't mind me being a fan girl for a moment, this book is seriously cool. With the BEST directions and layout I've seen in a quilt book, it has patterns for capital and lowercase letters in two sizes, numbers, punctuations, plus a whole bunch of fun things like animals, vehicles, a camera, and even a sewing machine. Plus, there's a ton of quilt patterns in there. I love word quilts. In the past, I've been paper piecing my letters. But now, this is my new favorite alphabet. /gush.

The donkey is from a pattern that's been around a long time. It was first published in the Kansas City star in 1931! Tim Latimer of Tim Quilts wrote more about the history here.

Source

I chose brown and blue for the main colors because they are both used for colorectal cancer ribbons and awareness. I'm still on the hunt for the perfect minky for the back. Chocolate and blue were so popular when my son was born, but it's harder to find now.

Learn more about colorectal cancer here at the Colon Cancer Alliance.

Linked to:

OMG November Link up @ Elm Street Quilts

BOMs Away @ What a Hoot Quilts

Design Wall Monday @ Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Let's Bee Social #202 @ Sew Fresh Quilts

Linky Party Tuesday @ Free Motion by the River

Midweek Makers #97 @ Quilt Fabrication

Oh Scrap @ Quilting is More Fun than Housework

Off the Wall Friday @ Nina Marie

Finished or Not Friday @ Busy Hands Quilts

Main Crush Monday @ Cooking Up Quilts

Monday Making @ Live Love Quilt

MOP Monday @ Tweety Loves Quilting

Moving It Forward @ Em's Scrap Bag

Needle & Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation

Wednesday Wait Loss #39 @ The Inquiring Quilter

Whoop Whoop Friday @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict

WIP link up @ Silly Mama Quilts

WIPs on Wednesday @ Esther's Blog