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Part of the problem with choosing one goal for the month is that I have about seven projects I'd like to finish in March. Anyone know the feeling?

Well, a package of fabric arrived yesterday for one of these projects, so surely that's a sign that it should be my One Monthly Goal.

Curated Quilts' issue 4 call for mini quilts is all about triangles and due April 1. I was drawn to the sherbet tones, not my normal palette, for this challenge. I don't have a firm plan yet of what I'll make, but the fabric is in hand. There's lots of time for you to join in on this challenge. You can see all the details and current submissions at Curated Quilts.

 

Here I am visiting my i Mini quilt in the Curated Quilts booth at QuiltCon (more about my trip soon!). i Mini was my submission to the Minimalist Quilt Challenge and was selected to appear in issue 3.

 

I'm linking up to March OMG on Elm Street Quilts.

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Five finished quilts in Q4 at my house. My kids and I each finished a quilt to submit to QuiltCon. Theirs will each hang in the show. Mine won't. ;-) I also finished my Halloween quilt, which I'm super excited to have done. The last one was some secret sewing that I'll be able to show off soon, but it wasn't on my Q4 list since it was a new project. Q4 also brought the beginning of many new projects.

Here's the exhaustive list of projects in my sewing room. I have a lot of finished quilt tops (14) and a lot of projects being in some state of being pieced (20). And 45 total WIPs. (Sorry if that makes you sweat a little.) This is a new high for me, though at least seven of them will be done this week.

They are arranged here by stage of the project. Let's not talk about how those that "just need binding" have been in that section for a while. I've marked with an asterisk (*) the highest priority items on the list. There are a few more coming up in the queue on the priority list, including five more Project Quilting challenges. (The first is listed at the very end. I have the theme and a design in mind... it's due on Sunday!) Happy sewing!

Just Need Binding

  1. Meadow Mystery, Lap Quilt.
  2. Midnight Mystery, Lap Quilt.
  3. Memory House, Mini Quilt.

Quilting In Progress

  1. *Curated Quilts Minimalism submission. i mini 
  2. *Very Hungry Caterpillar Twin Quilt

Basted

  1. *BAMQG NICU quilt (pieced by another guild member)

Finished Quilt Tops

  1. Planned Improv: Scrappy Squares, Greenery Lap Quilt.
  2. Planned Improv: Scrappy Squares, class sample Mini Quilt #2.
  3. Planned Improv: Scrappy Squares, class sample Mini Quilt #4.
  4. *Planned Improv: Playing with Angles, class sample Mini Quilt #1. 
  5. Charity baby quilt. 
  6. Feathered Star... pillow? 
  7. Variation of Planned Improv: Scrappy Squares, Wall Hanging. 
  8. *Mug rug. 
  9. *Mug rug. 
  10. *Mug rug. 
  11. *Mug rug. 
  12. *Mug rug. 
  13. *Mug rug. 
  14. *Mug rug. 

Piecing in Progress

  1. *Scattered Squares lap quilt (upcoming pattern).
  2. Planned Improv: Playing with Angles, class sample Mini Quilt #2.
  3. Tula Pink City Sampler. 
  4. Improv Abstraction, Small Quilt. 
  5. *Creative HST project, Lap Quilt.
  6. In the Middle quilt, Lap Quilt.
  7. Cotton & Steel (and low volume) HST Quilt, Lap Quilt.
  8. Ocean quilt for my daughter.
  9. Patchwork City Metro Area Quilt.
  10. Swoon Quilt. 
  11. *Rainbow Chain. The pattern is Autumn Chain from The Bee Hive quilts. 
  12. My Floating Squares improv project. (from The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters by Sherri Lynn Wood.)
  13. Rainbow Remix from Rebecca Bryan's class at Quiltcon. Blocks are all done. Next up, the big job of piecing together irregular blocks.
  14. Wonky Cross quilt from Rossie Hutchinson's class at QuiltCon. I'm up to 50 blocks and they are now all trimmed up.
  15. Quartered Log Cabin quilt from Rossie Hutchinson's class at QuiltCon. 
  16. Purple Royalty quilt. 
  17. La Passacaglia. No way I'm finishing this anytime soon, but including it so my list is complete. 
  18. *Wanderlust baby quilt. 
  19. *Blogger Bundle baby quilt.
  20. Playing with solids project from Tara Faughnan class. 

Planning Stage

  1. Planned Improv: Scrappy Squares, large scale.
  2. *Project Quilt 9.1. Hometown Proud. San Jose, CA. Design chosen, gathering fabrics.
  3. Floating Hexagons in Heliotrope and Breeze.
  4. Unnamed in Oasis and Pickle.
  5. Unnamed in grunge and linen neutrals.

 

I'm linking up to Finish Along Q1 goals link up.

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For those of you who follow along with my quarterly WIP posts, you already know that my twin-sized Very Hungry Caterpillar quilt for my son has been languishing in the finished quilt top state for... let's just say quite some time. He does have a cuddle quilt I made for him, but it's about time I finish his bed quilt. After all, he did make a twin-sized bed quilt for his sister.

December is the month. I'm gonna get this one quilted and bound so G can have it on his bed.

The quilt is basted. It has been for a while. And I've got a quilting plan. I'll be using the rounded square spirals I used on this smaller version, also in the Marrakesh Variegated Aurifil 50wt. The size of the project is just daunting to me. I know it's possible. (Leah Day says so.) But, this will be the largest quilt I've quilted on my domestic machine, which has a 7" throat area.

Do you quilt large quilts on your home machine? You might enjoy Jessica Skultety's Top 10 Tips! The one I'll really be focusing on for this project is to work in short chunks of time.

Check out my progress so far.

I'm linking up to December OMG on Elm Street Quilts.

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