Tag Archives: WIP

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I started my Swoon project long ago. It was born out of a fabric pull that I cultivated slowly, over the course of a couple months. While purple is my favorite color, this combination of lime, teal and navy has been my favorite color palette for the past year and a half. I used my scraps from the Swoon project to make my Sew My Stash Mini swap package. Then in February, I used my scraps from this palette to start my Creative HST project at QuiltCon. It wasn't until this post that I noticed that my first rosette of my La Passacaglia project is in my favorite palette, too!

Creative HSTs

I made a fair amount of progress on my creative HST project.

I chopped up my slab and pieced my half square triangles only to realize that my first 92 blocks had the strips going the opposite direction in the initial HSTs.

Thankfully the scrappy look is forgiving enough that the finished blocks play nicely together. I now have 148 finished blocks. There's a lot of trimming in my future. Then I'll throw them up on the design wall and get to piecing the quilt top. I have a couple ideas for how I want to quilt it, but I'm open to suggestions on that front.

 

La Passacaglia

My hand piecing is creeping along slowly. I got the third star attached to the next ring of the first rosette.

 

Swaps

I have three open swaps at the moment. I'll be shipping the Heather Ross Mini Swap package next week. This fabric pull is destined for a swap extra.

The other two swaps don't have deadlines until early 2017. I made my inspiration mosaic for the Hazel Mania Mini Swap and I'm looking forward to getting started on my plan for my partner. The other swap is the Modern Quilt Guild Swap. No plan on that one yet.

Makers are tagged on Instagram.

 

Pattern Writing & Blog Changes

I've finally taken the leap to dedicate time on my calendar to work on pattern writing and some changes I want to make to my blog. My first pattern will be a free pattern for my baby quilt Hummingbirds. (Pattern title TBD.)

 

Thank you for visiting! I'm linking up to Midweek Makers and Needle and Thread Thursday.

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Finished Quilts

I had two small finishes this week. They'll be featured on the blog soon. I turned my improv curves from last week into my Disney Mug Rug and shipped off my swap package this week. Once I get confirmation that my partner has received it, I'll share it with you.

My daughter and I finally sat down to put the binding on her doll quilt. It's all done and ready to deliver. She's so pleased. Today I got the report that at school she said, "I just want to sew and sew and sew." I totally know what you mean, kid!

 

New Focus

I have a goal to finish this one by the end of the month. I thought I had nearly all the blocks complete and just had to trim them up and stitch them together. When I opened the box with less than two weeks left in the month, I found I only have 92 complete blocks out of my planned 144! Eek! So step one was to create a new slab of scraps that would coordinate with my original scraps. I'm hoping once this slab becomes 40 more blocks and they get sprinkled throughout the quilt that it will all work out. It uses a bunch of fabrics that were used previously, with quite a few new ones. I'm worried about that green on the top of the right edge.

 

Bee Blocks

And because I really have an inability to focus on just one project, I took a break from the above project today and finished up my four blocks for this month's do. Good Stitches for Serenity Circle. They will be trimmed down a smidge to 8 1/2" by 16 1/2" each.

We're using this Craftsy tutorial. They went together in less than an hour and a half total, but a couple are wonky in places. Ailish may need to starch them into submission when she puts the quilt top together. ;-) The tutorial is pretty straightforward, but I'd recommend that at the start of each seam, you offset the edge by about a half inch (see below). I only did this on the last (smallest) seams and I think it would have helped on the other seams as well.

 

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Free Motion Quilting

This week I finished the quilting on the light yellow/orange quadrant of my Star Light Star Dark quilt. Then I set it aside in favor of finishing my other two baby quilt gifts so I could deliver them.  Here's what Star Light Star Dark looks like at the moment.

 

Finishes

Then I went on to finish two baby quilts that I shared about in recent posts: Caterpillar Fizz and Hummingbirds. Hummingbirds is already being enjoyed by the baby girl who it was give to and Zoom Zoom, which I finished last week, has gone to her big brother. I didn't end up seeing the third recipient as I expected I would, so Caterpillar Fizz will be delivered in the next week or so. Here's the pile of those quilts all pre-washed and ready to give.

 

Bee Blocks

It's a new month, so I have two new bee blocks to make. The pick for my do. Good Stitches group is improv curves in a very Fall color palette. I chose a couple beautiful Alison Glass fabrics to go with my neutrals.

The inspiration for the Quatrefoil blocks we're making for my Bee Hive group is water lilies. I may tweak my palette, but my initial fabric pull features more Alison Glass fabric (I just noticed that! I really love her fabric.). I'm planning a purple flower with orange and yellow center.

 

La Passacaglia

I made a bit of progress on my La Passacaglia project. I'll tell you, I'm not loving basting the tiny triangles. And there are 50 of them in this rosette. Please, nobody tell me how many of them are in the entire quilt. That said, once I managed to baste them, it was super quick to piece the stars together. Now to baste the other 40 triangles. ;-)

 

Thanks for visiting! I'm linking up to Midweek Makers and Needle and Thread Thursday.