WIP Wednesday 5.13.2020

Well, it's been two months since I last worked (as a substitute teacher.)  I have been quite productive at home.  My stitching by hand has stalled but other projects have marched forward.  I do want to pause to thank those that are so kind to leave comments.  I have formed some very sweet friendships with several people that I call friends that I have never met.  Our quilting/blogging community has so many fascinating individuals.  I am always happy to see an e-mail from someone that I truly care about.  Happy mail is the best!

Here's some of the things that happened this week:

I made a quilt back using a few blue orphan blocks to finish playing purposely with blue scraps for April for the RSC20.

Just to refresh your memory, this is the Wings of Spring quilt top that will be on the front of the above quilt back.  It was a Block Lotto win.  See how much better the other clothesline was?  All these trees (and the hill for that matter) are now gone due to earth work my husband has been doing.



I finished quilting this quilt for a friend.  I learned a new trick on how to use my Circle Lord giant template board called Baptist fan.  The fans lined up great this time!  After all these years (about 5) who knew these little divots to line up the board were there?  Geez.



Our young Picasso had to do a mixed media project for art this week (remote learning).  I left him use anything we could clean up.  He was way more in to it than I thought he was and he was busy three hours the first day and about 90 minutes the second day.  After we took the photos to send to his art teacher I immediately had my husband hang it on the big wall space on the landing on the steps to his room.  I LOVE it.

I figured mixed media meant sharpie, pencil, and crayon on a piece of typing paper.  Wow... his had cardboard, paint (that he left dry for a day) cut and twisted aluminum foil, tape, stickers, stamps, Sharpie... And who knows what the "TYM" means..  I still LOVE it.  He called it "Creepy Eyes with a Beard".  (It's on the table and Owen is standing on a chair--he's not that tall--YET.)

This is what it looked like the first day...  I love his smile and enthusiasm.   Oh, and if you can't tell by my blog WE ARE SUPER PROUD OF THIS GUY!

I made progress using green 2.5" squares on my SSSSQ (Kevin the Quilter QA).  I also added the next round of pink blocks and leader/enders while working on my Unity quilt (Bonnie Hunter QA).

Speaking of my Unity Quilt (Bonnie Hunter QA), I'm still loving all these soft-looking neutrals.

I only made one block of Clue 7 thus far.  This round the neutral pastels will come out to play in the corners.

My helper has made great progress in his sorting project.  The first pic shows the "new to me" table that was FREE.  The treadmill has been moved to another room so that we can actually use it.  There are more shelves!  Progress!

I'm not sure if this link works or not.  I haven't investigated how to embed a YouTube video into a post yet.  But if you want to see how sweet and well-trained my chickens and ducks are when it's time to go in for the night, watch this:
https://youtu.be/ENnQ8M5flIk

I currently have 66 on-going projects.    One dropped off this week (the customer quilt).

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-- found the book 8/8/19!

8.  Parallelogram Strings -- 2019 String Along at Humble Quilts, started 1.31.19
9.   Leah Day Building Blocks QA
10.  Jelly Roll Rug
11.  Classic Meets Modern BOM
12.  Mod Mod QA (turning this one into a baby quilt) (from block Lotto, mostly circles w/lines)

13.  Owl's Well That Ends Well (RSC19 project started 1.26.19)

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

15.  Temperature QA (2019 block-a-day according to high and low temps--changed to table topper.)

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.  Sand Castles -- Bonnie Hunter string quilt started January, 2019 -- an RSC project

21.  Little Houses (3.5" blocks)

22.  Pumpkins & the Beanstalk (a second quilt.)

23.  Set of note cards and envelopes

24.  Simply Summer Sensational QA with Kevin the Quilter 2.5" blocks (started 6.27.19)

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.  Kevin the Quilter 2019 Mystery Quilt -- SSSSQ, 1.5" squares

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) (2019 QA)

31.  Kathleen Tracy’s 2019 Mystery Quilt -- Facebook QA started in March, 2019. 

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

33.  RSC16 Folk Art Birds

34.  Waffle Blocks (August 2019) RSC19

35.  Kevin the Quilter 2019 Mystery Quilt -- SSSSQ, 2.5 " squares

36.  Gingerbread Men pattern by Edyta Sitar started November, 2019

37.  Linen & Threads Mystery SAL, Started 1/1/20 for my sew-to-go bag.

38.  Dresser Scarf (my grandma's printed WIP from the 70's) 1/1/20 for my sew-to-go bag.

39.  Veggie Patch (from Katie Mae Quilts)

40.  Unity Quilt Along with Bonnie Hunter,  (started 4/1/2020.)

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.  Drunkard's Path Variation baby quilt

5.  Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt (my seams don't match Julianne's seams...)

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 (blocks won from Block Lotto, February, 2013)

7.  Fortune Teller (RSC14 started)--It's not long enough...needs 4 more blocks

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)

13.  Bonnie Hunter Garden Party (started 3.18.17.)

14.   Cathy's CRAZY BY DESIGN.  It's the Dot Dot Dash Bag. (new to the list April, 2018)

Quilts back needs to be made (tops are done) 

1. Card Trick (pink and blue) HUGE charity quilt for local quilt guild
2. Hunter green large (bubbly -- will be a challenge to longarm) charity quilt for the local guild
3. Bubble Gum pink and navy charity quilt for local quilt guild
4. Good Fortune -- A Bonnie Hunter Quiltville Mystery started Thanksgiving weekend, 2018
5.  Soul Searching -- Julianne sent it to me 8/29/19!!!

Ready to longarm

1.  O - H - I - O quilt 2.5" blocks
2.  Wings of Spring -- Block Lotto win 3.31.19

I'm linking up with Susan at Quilt Fabrication for Midweek Makers.