Tag Archives: WIP

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So I've been doing this for a year now! It's a weird milestone in that it both feels like time has flown and that I've been doing this forever. I'm having such a great time and really enjoy interacting with my readers. Thank you all for being here. It wouldn't be nearly as fun without you!

This is my 127th blog post. I've decided I'll share a little of what I'm up to and some of my top posts. This month I've been teaching my son how to quilt. That's been super fun so far. I'm loving participating in mini swaps on Instagram. I'm trying to finish up some WIPs (ya know, so I can start some new projects!). Most importantly and excitedly I've been able to regularly work on my projects and I finished 11 quilts in the last year since starting the blog! For reference, my first 10 quilts took me over a decade. (gasp!) I'm excited by all the inspiration on Pinterest, Instagram and so many awesome blogs!

So what am I working on this week? I've cut out all my pieces for this fun rainbow inspired mini for the Rainbow Mini Swap on IG. Here's my palette.

My giant wonky star quilt is pinned and ready to quilt. (It's about time... it only took me 5 months to make the quilt sandwich!) It'll be awesome to knock it into the finished column next week.

And my newest quilt project: here's my Blogiversary Scrap Attack mini quilt top that I'll be giving away in my Grow Your Blog post this weekend in honor of my 1-year Blogiversary. Please come back Saturday night for your chance to win! (Pattern is Scrap Attack by Diane Bohn.)

Here are some of my most popular blog posts in the last year.

Top 5 Quilty posts

  1. ALYoF October Finish
  2. Bold Blooms: ALYoF December Finish
  3. Candy Shoppe in Natural Light
  4. Disney Mini Swap 2015
  5. July Goal Report: Frieda the Table Runner

Top 5 Non-Quilty posts

  1. The Secret Treasure Room
  2. Tangled in Yellow Yarn: Rapunzel Hair Tutorial
  3. The Girl Turns 2: A Bug Birthday Party
  4. End of Year Teacher Gifts
  5. The Boy's Party Shirt

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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.