With the New Year off to a reasonable start – I’ve finally kicked the series of diseases’ that have plagued me all through December – it was time to set myself up for a reasonably well planned year:
I’m not super fancy. Instead of using a moleskin, I’m just using a cheapie Composition notebook, with graph paper inside, instead of impossibly wide lines. Still, it’s a start, and a way to organize the jumble in my head.
Once I’d gotten January started in my Bullet Journal, I felt a little less heavy, and a lot more creative. I’m in the process of working out designs for some really large blocks, finally paying homage to my obsession with sugar skulls. I’m also acknowledging the geek in me – these are working out to be pixelated designs, just because.
Still, it’s time for me to be accountable and look at what I’ve got in the queue, which is quite a lot, at 20 WIPs. Mind you, I’m counting all completed tops in the list, because they’re not done until they’re actually quilts.
# | Name | Started | Description | Stage |
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1 | 3xS | 17 November 2014 | Scrap project using blocks seen around the internet. | Quilt top completed. |
2 | Night Sky | 01 November 2014 | From the pattern by Camille Roskelley. | Quilt top completed. |
3 | Technicolor Fields | June 2011 | Farmer’s Wife Sampler, by Laurie Aaron Hird | Quilt top completed. |
4 | Garden Party’s Quadrille | Mid-2012 | Botanical BOM 2012 | Quilt top completed. |
5 | High Tea | 11 October 2014 | Pattern testing for Adrianne. Pattern now available here. | Quilt top completed. |
6 | Charmed, I’m Sure | 30 July 2013 | From Sarah Fielke’s Made in Cherry pattern. | Quilt top completed. |
7 | Embers | 08 August 2013 | From the Swoon pattern by Camille Roskelley. Block resized to suit my intended finished quilt size. | Quilt top completed. |
8 | Sunsets and White Beaches | 20 July 2013 | More Granny blocks. | Top basted. About 30% hand-quilted. |
9 | Swirling Sea of Stars | 13 March 2013 | Scrappy string blocks. A riff on the Spiderweb block. | Top half pieced. Need several more blocks. |
10 | Winged Square | 11 June 2014 | Winged Square blocks, done in rounds of yellow, aqua, pink and green. | All subunits pieced. Top 25% completed. |
11 | Test Your Skills Sampler | 11 Sept 2011 | Project designed by Sandi of Piecemeal Quilts, to go with our Skill Builder Series. Instructions available here. | Need to establish where I am, and pick up where I left off. |
12 | Double Wedding Ring | Mid-2011 | Double wedding ring quilt, done in orange and lime green for the arcs. Melons and centers in Kona Berry. | Two rows done; all subunits pieced. |
13 | From an Unquiet Mind I | 08 July 2014 | Piecing with scrap solids left over from Technicolor Fields. | Attempted to machine quilt this. Need to rip all stitching out. |
14 | From an Unquiet Mind II | 08 July 2014 | Piecing with scrap solids left over from Technicolor Fields. | Several subunits pieced. Need to determine setting. |
15 | Windblown Feathers | N/A | From Anna Maria Horner’s pattern. | Fabrics purchased. Waiting for templates to arrive. |
16 | Swap Granny Blocks | 17 November 2014 | Blocks sent to me from participation in a swap. My month was December 2013. | Blocks trimmed. Need to sew them into setting triangles. |
17 | Sugar Skulls | N/A | Pixelated sugar skulls. | Design in progress. |
18 | Ode to Taupe | 16 August 2012 | Modern, zen garden inspired. | Blocks in progress. |
19 | Scrappy Placemats | 06 April 2014 | Placemats made from incy wincy scraps. | 4 of 6 placemats pieced |
20 | Scrappy Project II | N/A | Scrap project born out of scrap management. Fabrics will be pulled from scraps. | Design completed. |
Yup, that’s right. I’ve got SEVEN tops waiting to be quilted. I’ve been fighting the thread on the Janome set up with my frame. I think I might have just figured out why the top thread keeps breaking, but my god, I hate this machine so very, very much. Why its designers felt the need to have the thread pass through half a dozen points, I just don’t know. As soon as I can, I’ll be trading the Janome in toward something else.
Even with those seven, that’s thirteen projects in need of attention. Knowing me, I’ll be tempted into several more projects before long.
I need to practice some project monogamy, establish ‘due dates’ for myself, and hold myself to a schedule. Thankfully, sign-ups for the 2015 Finish-Along will be starting soon. In the meantime… I’ve got some hand-quilting to do.