WIP Wednesday

I said I would share my plan for WIPs and UFOs with you. I thik I lost my mojo because I was so overwhelmed by projects and plans. Going forward I think I need to chose one quilting WIP, one cross stitch pattern and one knitting WIP to focus on each month. Once they're finished along with customer quilts, I can then work on something else.

So for October I chose the following:

1. snowflake sewalong - this is ready for quilting. Here is a progress shot.

2. I am going to finish one of the Ghoul Squad each month and there are four to complete. One is done and ready for framing. I'm calling this one Mrs Bones.

3. I had a deadline before going on retreat to finish two beanies with pom poms for my daughter. I stalled on this as I couldn't find a pattern that was the same yardage as the yarns Lizzie had purchased. Then I realised that if I searched for the yarn on Ravelry.com I might find inspiration. That worked like a dream and I finished the two hats. I have even knit another for Lizzie for Christmas.

My goals for November are:
1. Finish socks in progress
2. Finish a second Squad Ghouls cross stitch
3. Finish my La Fin du Monde quilt by Libs Elliott

I have two customer quilts to finish at the moment and three more that are ready to be delivered to me. I also want to right up a guide to prepping your quilt for longarming as I have had several quilts where the backing is too small.

If I get those done I will join in a Xmas cushion sewalong by The Crafty Nomad

Mojo Monday

Well I went on retreat taking several projects with me. I had a great time and made progress on al of the projects except one whilst I was away.

1. I prepped lots of reusable make up wipes which I finished when I got home. I stitched all of the squares together whilst on retreat and then what I hadn't finished, I turned and pined at my hotel on the Sunday night. I no longer have any worn or coloured towels, so this project is complete.

2. The retreat project by Jeliquilts was a fun make and I finished the top at the retreat but quilted it at home on my longarm. I love this zig zag quilting pattern which gives great texture. This is the last of this rainbow stripe that I used for the binding.

  I used a rainbow of poppers for the closure of this cushion cover.

3. I put together the four blocks for this mini quilt - pattern by Fat Quarter Shop and added the border, so it was ready to quilt when I was home. Another striped binding finished this project.

4. Lastly I worked on the Snowflake sewalong and I soon had six blocks done and ready to continue this week. I have been home alone sine I returned from the retreat as my husband has been away and left the car at the airport for me to collect as he flew out on the same day as I returned.

I have a plan for tackling my UFOs and WIPs as I go forward. I will share my plan with you on Wednesday.

Snowflake SAL

As the #100days100blocks sew along comes to an end, I have joined in with the Snowflake QAL by ModernHandcraft I am planning to do scrappy turquoise background with low volume scraps for the snowflake. I also plan to cut all of the blocks with my Accuquilt as I need 3" finished squares and HSTs. First I am going to start with my scraps and then move onto FQs in my stash. I can even stash dive for the backing.

The Modern Quilt Club Retreat is coming up in two weeks time, and I think this is the perfect project. There is also a foundation pieced retreat project / cushion and I have all of my fabrics for that project packed and ready to go including wadding and backing. I will probably make up the cushion when I'm home unless I prep the backing of the cushion as I probably don't want to pack my tools for setting the poppers.

Q4 Finish along 2019

1. TQS BOM Sedona Star from Jan 2012. Not yet pieced together but progress was made in 2018.

2. Tula Pink butterfly from October 2017. I need to move a few blocks and then quilt it.

3. My small world from 2016 which is pieced and partly quilted. This was the April project to finish for the APQS UFO challenge

4. Five impossible things

5. La Fin du Monde which I started as a quiltalong late 2018, but the background fabric got lost in the post, so progress stopped.

6. Tate Modern quilt which I need to start drafting again. I had made some templates but some were wrong and I might be able to use a circle ruler instead.

7. HST BOM  - I want to keep up with the blocks each month and finish it in December

8. Tula Pink Hex on the beach - this is the project I was working on for the #the100dayproject so I should make good progress on this during the third quarter.

9. Quietplay BOM 2019. 

10. Hoffman Dream Big Panel - I need to load this and practise my free motion quilting.

11. Snowflake QAL

12. The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery Squad Ghouls.

13. Grey hat 1

14. Grey hat 2.

Can I get down to single figures in 2019? I think so but my big and oldest UFOs won't, I think, get any attention.