WIP Wednesday 12.5.18

It's been another productive week!  Here's what happened:

I finished this beautiful embroidered customer quilt.  All of the quilts that belonged to this customer (eight this time) have been returned to her.  woohoo!  I quilted it with my Circle Lord giant template board called Square Dance.  It left a beautiful texture.



I cut out all of the pieces for another Pumpkins & the Beanstalk quilt (I had parts left over from the last one).  This one will be the larger size.  It's nice to be able to take projects to work with me.



Here's what the small one looked like that I finished last month:



All of my HST units are made for the Bonnie Hunter mystery, Good Fortune.  Most are pressed



I got this far on quilting my embroidered crib quilt.  Still working on it.  This is my December OMG.



I finished the cross stitching on a stocking stuffer for my sister-in-law.  Now to find a frame...



I put together my 2019 project list of twelve items.  I hope to finish at least one item per month to cut down on my WIP list.  You can view it here.  I linked it to Judy at Patchwork Times.  She will tell us what number to try to finish.  SIX of my projects are from the Rainbow Scrap Challenges (RSC).

I did some major cleaning and re-organizing and sorting of scraps in my longarm room one day.  That felt good.  You can see all the bins in the background...



I also dug out my mother-in-law's sewing machine AND USED IT!  She passed away a few years back.  I think of her often.  She was an amazing seamstress.



This was her sign:



I did not start any new projects this week.  My WIP list  goes down to 66 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.  Customer quilt with special block in the center (CM)
3.  Embroidery Bear crib quilt

4.  Embroidery Bear with balloons and hearts crib quilt.

  

 

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