Tag Archives: WIP

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I've missed showing you a lot of new fabric in my stash in the past few months, but here's some old stash fabric. In 2005 I participated in a purple charm fabric swap that resulted in The Purple Quilt that I finally finished last year. I have a TON of purple charm squares left, so when I was offered an opportunity to be part of a project-based blog hop, I added one more thing to the to do list and said yes!

Now, since I already used my favorite fabrics on The Purple Quilt, I'm a little less than enthusiastic about the pile that I have left in my stash. So, step one was to sort through the pile and eliminate the ugly fabrics and the really ugly fabrics (no pictures of those). ;-) I ended up easily finding 48 purple charms in my stash and I'll only be buying some solid purple (dark indigo by American Made Brand, the middle one below) as my "neutral" to be able to get started on the blocks.

feature fabrics
auditioning solids for my background fabric

This makes the fourth project that I cut fabric to start during the first week of January. At least amidst all that cutting I even also had my first finish of 2015 yesterday (my Disney Mini for the IG #DisneyMiniSwap2015 that I'll be mailing in the next day or so -- pics to follow).

I'm excited to keep working on this purple project and for the blog hop reveal in March.

Linking up to Sunday Stash with Molli Sparkles.

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I only checked 5 of my 17 (ouch!) goals off my 2014 Q4 Finish Along goal list. I'm still quite pleased as two of those were 8 and 11 years old and one was a twin sized, the largest I've free motion quilted on my domestic machine (with a 7" throat).

So, rolling those forward, reassessing on a few, adding some additional old WIPs, I think this is the whole list... maybe.

  1. Disney Quilt Swap 2015 (background pieced and template printed)
  2. Schnitzel and Boo Mini Quilt Swap (a couple blocks pieced)
  3. Stellar Wind (the Giant Wonky Star Quilt) (ready to quilt)
  4. Charm Dash quilt using my purple charm squares (pattern by Ms. Midge)
  5. Rainbow Mini Swap (first block complete, see below)
  6. Little Letters in Blues/Greens Quilt (all letters pieced)
  7. Little Letters in Brights Quilt (all letters pieced)
  8. Ocean quilt for The Girl (top pieced, but needs applique done)
  9. 2004 (ugh) Baseball Quilt (some blocks pieced)
  10. Batik SCVQA philanthropy quilt (sandwiched)
  11. Roman Stripez with butterfly backing (some blocks pieced)
  12. Roman Stripez with turtle backing (some blocks pieced)
  13. The Purple Ninja Quilt (fabric selected)
  14. Memory House Vol. 1 Quilt (2 houses complete)
  15. Pirate Quilt (pre-cut fabric selected)
  16. My safari animal baby quilt (piecing has begun)
  17. My son's animal quilt (piecing has begun)
  18. Very Hungry Caterpillar twin sized quilt (fabric and pattern selected)
  19. Hawaiian lap quilt (fabric and pattern selected)
  20. Leah Day's Building Blocks Quilt Along (first 3 sets of blocks done)
  21. Winnie the Pooh Skirt/Shorts for The Girl (fabric selected)
  22. Envelope quilt (a couple blocks pieced)
  23. Monster Quilt (first applique block in progress)
  24. Christmas Mini Quilt (using 4 orphan blocks I somehow acquired)

So, I tried to order these in priority order. Somewhere around #9 this got really hard. My guild is having a UFO swap this month, so maybe I can drop one of these off my list. We'll see.

Here's a glimpse of the last thing to come off of my sewing machine, the first block for my Rainbow Mini Swap (#rainbowminiswap on IG). Linking up to Q1 Finish Along Goals.

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Two weeks ago I showed you what I was up to. Then I prepared for and went to Boston for the weekend. Now I'm back and can show you what I got done before I went on my trip. While I didn't make any progress on quilting my Building Blocks Quilt Along blocks, I did finish piecing the 18 blocks for my mystery quilt...

mystery quilt blocksThere are six with the light backgrounds and 12 with the dark backgrounds. I'm curious what the placement will be in the final quilt.

light background blocksdark background blocksI love the scrappy feel of these blocks. I don't think I've ever made a quilt with pieced blocks that weren't all identical. This brings me to step 12 in the project. Step 12 has 297 pieces that I am to sew into 99 three-piece units. The pile is a little daunting to me. I also have no idea what they will become. The mystery part of the mystery quilt is so fun!

for step 12I also bought some new fabric that I'm drooling over. Pics coming soon. :-)

And now, some highlights from my trip to Boston.

View of the city.
View of the city.
Fenway Park -- I highly recommend the tour.
Fenway Park -- I highly recommend the tour.
Swan Boats at the Public Garden (like in Make Way for Ducklings).
Swan Boats at the Public Garden -- like in Make Way for Ducklings.
Public Garden.
Public Garden.
Granary Burying Ground at 97 Tremont Street.
Granary Burying Ground at 97 Tremont Street.
Boston Duck Tours.
Boston Duck Tours.

I'm linking up to WIP Wednesday with Lee at Freshly Pieced.