WIP Wednesday

It was yet another super-productive week.  Customers are happy and I'm getting closer to completing some of my own projects.

I finished this customer quilt.  She LOVED the romantic flowers (Cosmos) quilted on it.



This quilt was loaded on the frame and I got to play with my rarely-used Square Dance board.



I did start a new project this year.  It was part of my plan.  It's the Bonnie Hunter Good Fortune Quiltville Mystery.  It started Thanksgiving weekend, 2018.  I am trying to do each step using my Accuquilt dies.  I'll show each step of progress made on Monday's for her linky parties.

This year I took Bonnie's advice and sub-cut my strips after I sewed the strips together.  Here's some perfect little red and neutral "twosie" units that will be sewn into 4-patches.

I used my mother-in-law's fabric sharpie to put vertical lines on my die.  She passed away a few years ago.  It was nice to "visit" with some of her sewing memories as part of this process.  She was an amazing seamstress and did it professionally.  She left her sewing things to me.  I am honored!

Before I knew it I had a nice bag of "twosies".  The thing about this process is that I didn't know how to calculate how many I had in the bag.  Stay tuned as I sew them together into 4-patches to count them.  You can never have too many 4-patches!  It's a win - win situation.

At bowling I worked on this cute little project that is a Christmas present.  Stay tuned for the saying...



I'm enjoying the new little sew-to-go box that I got at a Goodwill Outlet.  I keep it in my truck.




I did start a new projects this week -- Bonnie Hunter's annual Quiltville Mystery called Good Fortune.  This holdss my WIP list to 67 projects.  I've had list in the upper 90's in the past. 

Pieces Still Need to be Cut & Sewn

1.  Cheddar Jack cat pattern from Mama Spark's World 

2.  Digging up Bones (Owen's dinosaur quilt)

3.  Rock Island Campfire Quilt

4.  Picadilly Circle

5.  ...And Sew On BOM at Quiet Play (one block to go)

6.  Go Four It! -- Scrappy 4-patches started as leader/ender June 2017

7.  Patriotic Folk Animals (from Americana Quilts Book) -- hand work for school

8.   Soul Searching -- need 2 more blocks for Julianne swap
9.   Leah Day Building Blocks QA

10.  Love Laugh Quilt Christmas Improv QA
11.  Classic Meets Modern BOM
12.  Mod Mod QA (turning this one into a baby quilt) (from block Lotto, mostly circles w/lines)

13.  Slow Sunday Stitching wool candle mat from Sue project

14.  Bonnie Hunter Garden Party (started 3.18.17.)

15,  Cross Stitch bathroom saying for Aunt Jo

16.  Kite Girl (RSC14)

17.  Amish Country BOM (from Lynn, Johnna's mom)

18.  Cabins at the Lake (from Fons & Porter Magazine) (only one house block complete.)

19.   2.5" Scraps from Dani making "cracker" blocks

20.  EPP mini table topper (grey, maroon, blue, cream...)

21.  Little Houses (3.5" blocks)

22.  Split Stars (Block Lotto win)

23.  Spools (Leader & Ender project with Bonnie Hunter)

24.  Scrappy Hourglass Quilt 

25.  Slabs with White Rectangle (RSC14 started -- need blocks each month)

26.  Bonnie Hunter Box Kite class from March, 2017 (Will make baby quilt.)

27.  Super Mario QA

28.  2015 Orange, pink, grey kite blocks (from Accuquilt die, RSC17)

29.  Maroon Sampler Quilt

30.  Gypsy Wife QA (started again with Angie at Gnome Angel, August 2017)

31.  Crown of Thorns in blues

32.  2016 Plus Blocks (from left over pieces of Soul Searching blocks)

33.  RSC16 Folk Art Birds

34.  Kevin the Quilter's Sapphire Stars Mystery (started Summer 2017) 

35.  Secret O - H - I - O quilt.  Shhhh.  Can't show this one--but it's cool!

36.  Dot Dot Dash bag -- (new to the list April, 2018)

37.  Cross Stitch "A Friend is Someone..." WIP found in April, 2018, from 1980's!

38.  Good Fortune -- A Bonnie Hunter Quiltville Mystery started Thanksgiving weekend, 2018.

  

Blocks Still Need to be Made

1.  Bluepatch Mystery Quilt

2.  Scrap Crystals (working on blue pieces for RSC15)

3.  We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler

4.  Amanda Murphy Designs (ugly fabric quilt)

5. Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt (my seams don't match Julianne's seams...)
6.  Drunkard's Path Variation baby quilt

7.  Kim Diehl's Table Topper from her book Simple Charm (Started August, 2017 for to-go bag.)

8.  Catchin' Some Rays needle turn applique crib quilt started March, 2018 (adding EPP hexies!)
        

Blocks are made but need to be sewn together (and/or some sashing)
1.  Block Swap Adventure Orange/Yellow Sampler (2011-2012)
2.  Cruise blocks won from Libby
3.  Orange/Blue Fish Blocks (that I won)
4.  Split Stars (blocks won from Block Lotto; October, 2012)
5.  African Violet baby quilt (Block Lotto inspired)
6.  Tall Fly 

7.  Fortune Teller (RSC14 started)

8.  Sonja's Windows string quilt 

9.  Block Swap Adventure (2013) Churn Dash Blocks 

10.  Tula Pink's City Sampler 100 Modern Quilt Blocks (New QA starting 5/7/17 Gnome Angel)

11.  Flower Baskets (blue and white with some applique) Block Lotto win 10/1/18

12.  Pre-printed cross stitch pillow sham (May, 2018 sew-to-go bag)

 

Quilts back needs to be made (tops are done)

1.  Pat Sloan's, I Love to Make Quilts Sampler Solstice Challenge (Red & White finished top 2017)

2. Card Trick (pink and blue) HUGE charity quilt for local quilt guild
3.  Hunter green large (bubbly -- will be a challenge to longarm) charity quilt for the local guild
4. Bubble Gum pink and navy charity quilt for local quilt guild 

Ready to longarm
1.  Little Letters QA Quilt (A RSC14 project)
2.  Royal Blue embroidered customer quilt (SB) Sewed back 11/20/18
3.  Embroidery Bear crib quilt

4.  Embroidery Bear with balloons and hearts crib quilt.

5.  Customer quilt with special block in the center (CM)
 

 

I'm linking up with Lorna for Let's Bee Social.  Check it out today at Let's Bee Social!