Well done Meg, it's really important to try and keep the seams roughly the same. You might have to buy the 1/4 inch foot or use the guide along the footplate, either way I think you've done a great job.
Sorry I wasn't home today when you rang. I'll catch up with you soon. Love Chris

Good for you!! It will be lovely when you are finished and I always agree that better late than never is good! Here is a video link for how to set up and test for a 1/4" seam allowance without using a 1/4" foot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvyW20Ld1rs

They look wonderful! I have a nine-patch somewhere, I hope to find and finish.

Meg.....you get huge kudos for even undertaking quilting...I so admire all you quilters.…..if I lived by you I would bring you the foot you need!! These squares are beautiful.....I pray for good days for you so you can finish this. Praying for your return to good health....much love.....

These turned out perfect!! It takes such extra effort to accomplish anything when you aren't feeling well. Hope and pray each day is better for you! Hugs, Laura

Looking good. Hugs

OH NO! I’ve just opened month three and it’s missing three little blue squares of fabric 🤭😥
Guess I’ll have to search through my whole stash to find something to substitute, don’t like my chances knowing my lack of blue fabrics. 😟

Well I’m beyond ecstatic! I went to my box of old fabrics and found one tiny little bag full of blue fat quarters and two match fabrics in this quilt kit.

Someone sure is smiling down on me today! 🙏🏻

Looking Good! Isn't it amazing what you can find in your stash.. Hope you health improves each day so you can sew a little to help pass the time. Hugs Marian

Kudos on your efforts. If you hadn't of told on yourself, I'd never have guessed you did this without a 1/4 foot. Before I got my Bernina, I stuck a pile of Post-It notes on the bed of my machine to sew up against to get the perfect 1/4".

Love how your blocks turned out. Your colors are spot on.

I think they look great and can't wait to see all your blocks together. Take care of yourself and hopefully you can finish this in the next few weeks.... Not years Meg!!!😉 we will celebrate with you when you do!🎉

Month 3 block. This one is the centre block.

Month 4 blocks. I think these go in the border at one corner.

I’m still struggling with the 1/4” seams as it goes totally against everything I have done, in over 60 years of sewing, leaving all these unfinished edges. It’s a wonder to me that quilts don’t all fall apart. LOL!

Hugs to all.

P.S. I just found out this week that my Tenpin bowling partner’s mother is an award winning quilter and has even travelled to the States where she also won some Best in Show awards!!! She does all her quilts by hand, so I’m totally in awe.

Month 5 block.
I’m beginning to feel better with the finished blocks, except for the first one, which I have now unpicked ready to remake it as it was 1/2” smaller than it should have been.
Thanks for looking
Hugs n roses 🌹, M

I love this post. It is like a story. One page at the time. I had been off for a week and just catching up. I can't wait to see all your blocks and see the finished project. You are doing great. Hopefully you enjoy it enough to get you out of bed. Keeping you in my prayers. Happy sewing.

Hi Meg, I'm far from an expert but they look perfect to me. I don't have a 1/4 foot for my Singer 221 Featherweight.But I placed some Painting tape (green Frog) as a marker and it will not damage machine. Works great. Hope you are getting better.LOVE from Texas

They are beautiful! You did a great job!

Month 5 and 6 blocks, I finished on Saturday.

I had a rest from sewing today, (Sunday), as it was our first Northern Country Challenge tenpin bowling meet for 2019.
I'm afraid I bowled very poorly as I just don't have the stamina required to bowl at this level, at the moment, but my team needed me to make up the number or we wouldn't have been able to win any of the match's series points.
I thought you all might like to see a photo that was taken of me showing off our stunning new Aboriginal design bowling shirts. I am with my friend of 40 years, Del, who bowls for an opposition team, Taree, while I bowl for Hunter. I was so exhausted by the time I got home that I fell asleep immediately I sat down in my lounge chair.
Thanks for looking, Hugs n roses, M

Wow! look at you go! I love your Bowling shirt and I didn't realise that Del was so tall, or maybe it's just that you're only the same height as me. Dad used to say I had Duck's disease - my backside was too close to the ground!!!!!!!!!!! he he he. Loving your blocks, they are coming together so well. Keep at it. Love Chris

Wow! you have been busy making all these squares! I hope you will feel well enough to go on doing one or two squares a day. The quilt will be gorgeous given the blocks you showed. I love you colours.

Months 8 and 9 finally done. Only 3 more months to go. 😁

Month 10 block. I really like this one. 🥰

Month 11 blocks. Only one month to do. :-)

Month 12:- 4 of these 12 &1/2” blocks all finished today along with month 11 (previous post below)

I’m so glad to have finished the bulk of the blocks, now I just have to put them all together:-)

It's going to look awesome once it's all together. Keep at it, but have a rest now and then you go girl! Love Chris

These are the nine centre blocks joined together, they go on the diagonal in the finished quilt as per the second photo of the packet.

I hope mine turns out as good as the one in the picture.
Hugs, m
Ps

Wow, Meg...you have done a beautiful job with these blocks! You are coming down the home stretch. Can't wait to see how you quilt it to finish it off!

You are doing a marvelous job Meg.. Gonna be boo ti ful!.

I’ve finally finished another two blocks, what a job!
I decided I want to increase the width of the quilt to better cover our bed.
On Friday we laid Ray’s Mum, Dulcie’s ashes in her final resting place, which meant driving down to where we all used to live, a long, two hour drive on our very slow freeways. Anyway, we went a bit earlier to give me some time to try and find some matching fabric for the quilt. There’s an abundance of fabric stores to choose from down there.
After visiting three different stores I found some suitable materials and spent all day yesterday working out how best to proceed and setting about cutting up all the little pieces for the extra blocks.

These two are my, first ever, attempt at cutting and stitching a quilt block and while I know the mistakes I made with my cutting, and they’re not as good as the purchased blocks, they are acceptable. (Just!) LOL!!!

It’s just lucky I had two spare block packages that I could scavenge for fabric and three fat quarter packs of the blue fabrics, because I couldn’t match any of the fabrics, I could only find substitutes for the borders.
Only four more blocks to piece now. YAYE!

Well done girlfriend. It's looking fantastic. I dropped off mine this morning to my quilter. She said it will be ready next week!! Love Chris

I’m really happy with these two blocks that I cut out and made up to go in the outside side borders.
At the moment I’m trying to join it all together but I’m struggling with the size of it now, it’s too large even for my table extensions to hold it all andI still have to add two more side borders to each side!

YAYE!!!! I've finally finished piecing our quilt top! It took me exactly 1 month, though some days I couldn't sew at all. When I did the final stitch I burst into tears, I was so relieved. I never realised quilting could be so emotional!
The first photo is taken of it on our queen size bed and the side photo shows how much extra I added to both sides so it would be warmer, (the blue fabric is our old doona cover, on the bed underneath the quilt top)..
All that's left to do now is have it quilted with the batting and backing and then I will attempt to make the binding and finish it. Any suggestions what colour binding I should use?