WIP Wednesday 9.7.22

 I'm cruising right along making progress on quilty things again!  I'm starting to settle in on a routine of our son returning physically to school and me working as a substitute teacher at school about three days a week.  But progress is still being made.

I finished this waffle block quilt and delivered it to the neighbor.  It is for her new grandson.

I set my OMG (one main goal) for September to finish my Bonnie Hunter Unity quilt.  I think I have decided to start calming down the quilt by adding a single neutral fabric border, followed by a row of squares, and then repeat the same single neutral fabric border.  I haven't decided on sizes of them yet.

I finished quiting the kite block quilt in pinks and orange with grey trim and butted the pink waffle block crib quilt up against it so that I could be productive and not have to load it by itself.  Now I have two quilts on the longarm frame.  I'm looking forward to trying to cross these off my list this month and adding them to the "baby girl" crib quilt pile.  The Tweety Bird flannel piece and the batting piece were perfect.

Here's my first batch of whole tomatoes.  I only planted about 14 tomatoe plants this year.  I have an abundance of tomatoes.  We are down to only three jars of whole tomatoes from last year on the shelf.  I canned them just in time.  I use them a lot when making soups and yummy things in the crockpot.

I took in this quilt to longarm for a friend this week.  I'm not sure which quilting design to put on it yet.  I will let it on the table for a few days while I am quilting two crib quilts back to back on the longarm.

I'm linking up with Susan for Midweek Makers here.

41 Items remain on the WIP list. (I've had over 90 in the past!). This is PROGRESS!!!

Pieces Need to be Cut & Sewn

 1.  Cheddar Jack cat pattern

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

 3.  HST Three, Six, Nine Quilt

 4.  Picadilly Circle

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

 6.  RSC16 Folk Art Birds

 7.  Autumn Stamp Collection SAL @ Pinker n Punkin Quilting, started August 2022

 8.  Leah Day Building Blocks QA

 9.  Dresser Scarf (My Grandma's WIP from the 1970's found 1/1/20

10.  Classic Meets Modern BOM

11.  Gypsy Wife QA started in August 2017

12.  Mod Mod QA (from Block Lotto, circles w/lines)

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

14.  Rail Fence Blocks (started January 2021 as my leader/enders)

15.  Maroon Sampler Quilt--I found this on 2.6.21

16.  Kite Girl (RSC14)

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

18.  Kathleen Tracy's 2019 Mystery Quilt Facebook QA started in March, 2019  

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

20.  Little Houses (2.5" blocks)

 Blocks Still Need to be Made

 1.  Bluepatch Mystery Quilt

 2.  Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt 

 3.  We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler

 4.  Drunkard's Path Variation quilt

Blocks Are Made But Need to be Sewn Together (and/or Some Sashing)

 1.  Tula Pink's City Sampler 100 Modern Quilt Blocks 5/17/17 QA

 2.  Cruise blocks won from Libby

 3.  Cathy's CRAZY BY DESIGN Dot Dot Dash Bag, Won April, 2018

 4.  Split Stars (blocks won from the Block Lotto, October, 2012)

 5.  African Violet baby quilt (Block Lotto inspired)

 6.  Tall Fly (blocks won from Block Lotto)

 7.  Pre-printed cross stitch pillow sham (May 2018)

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

 9.  Random Ohio Stars -- started January, 2022

Quilt Back Needs to be Made (Tops are Done)

1.  Card Trick (pink and blue)

2.  Hunter Green Star Quilt

Ready to Longarm

1.  Bubble Gum Pink & Navy Quilt

2.  Plus Quilt (Be Positive) started in 2016; quilt top completed 1.1.22

3.  Rescue Quilt from my SIL (patchwork squares)

4. Waffle Blocks (August 2019 -- RSC19) -- quilted

5. Kite blocks in pink/orange/grey -- on the longarm frame

6.  7" Patchwork Squares Quilt CM (belongs to a friend)

Incoming Quilt to Longarm

I received another quilt to longarm this week.  I quickly threw it on the table in the quilt room for a photo.  I had to get to the bus stop.  I set out my batting bin.  Frankenbatting will need to be assembled.  

When I don't know how I am going to longarm a quilt I like to let it sit on the table until a design comes to me.  I may use a design board I haven't used for a while on this one.  The bright yellow fabric is the backing.  I have a feeling I will use yellow thread on this quilt, but I'm not sure about that either yet.

Random Ohio Stars Sunday Progress

I looked at the pattern today and realized I made a few too many of these stars.  Either the quilt will have an extra row in it to make it larger or they will end up on the back.

I'm linking up at Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework for Oh Scrap!

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I got a few more stitches in on my to-go project.

Notice the arrow pointing to the kid in the black shirt on the fishing dock.  I enjoyed stitching while watching our son magnet fish.  It was a very peaceful stitching time while both of us enjoyed one of our favorite hobbies.  I been stitching along with Melissa at Pinker n Punkin Quilting & Stitching.  This is her Mystery Autumn Stamp SAL.  

I'm linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.

Scrap Saturday -- Blue -- RSC22

 I finished this blue crib quilt this week.  These waffle blocks were one of my RSC projects.  I used 2.5" squares from my squares bin and then 8.5" strips in the color of the month.  I gave it to my neighbor this week for her new grandson.

Instead of making more blue blocks, I'm going to focus on a few finishes this month.  I have already longarmed the kites quilt that was part of the pink and orange months a while back.  I found this cute Tweety Bird flannel piece as a backing.  The kites quilt is already quilted.

I can't take the kites quilt off the longarm frame just yet.  I butted this pink waffle block crib quilt up against it so that I could just continue quilting using the same backing and batting piece.  It saves me a lot of time to not have to load a whole other quilt if I can butt them together like this and just keep going.  Hopefully I'll have two crib quilts for the "girl" pile this month.  All three quilts posted today were RSC projects at one point.  You can see below that the quilting design didn't have to be started and stopped again.  This worked out perfectly this time!  Woohoo!  I'm all about saving time these days.

Have a great holiday weekend if you celebrate Labor Day.  I am linking up with Angela at SoScrappy for the RSC22.

Blue Crib Waffle Quilt Complete

 The blue crib waffle quilt is complete.  It measures 39.5" by 51".  It was made from 2.5" scrap squares and 8.5" x 2.5" strips of the color of the month during the RSC.  I quilted it using the Circle Lord giant template board called Clamshells.  It is backed by a piece of flannel that I had in my stash.  I also had a piece of Warm & Natural batting that was a scrap that was a perfect fit.  Ta da!

September OMG

 It's been a while since this quilt came out to play.  The number for September on the American Patchwork & Quilting UFO Challenge is 8 this month.  This means that I will be setting my OMG (one main goal) to finish my Bonnie Hunter Unity Quilt.

This is what it looked like the last I saw it.  It needs another row to make it larger and/or a border.  Then of course, it needs to be quilted, labeled, and bound.   I still haven't decided what the next row will be.  The neutral color pallet will go great in our RV.  This is where this quilt will reside.

I believe I last worked on this quilt in June of 2020 after finishing Bonnie Hunter's clue #7.  It stalled because I didn't know what to do for the next round.  Suggestions welcomed!  There's a really good chance the last border will be one neutral print.  I'm not a fan of longarming quilts with little pieces all around the edges where I have to worry about points and such.

I'm linking up at Elm Street Quilts for the September Linky Party.