Tuesday, June 23, 2015

List of current quilt projects

I am working on a number of open projects.. I'm like the ADD version of a quilter.  SHINY OBJECT!  I see a new project and I just get soooooo excited that I can't keep from starting a new one.  And it could certainly be worse.  A lot worse.  Remember when your mom used to tell you that you couldn't get out a new toy until you put up the one you already have out?  Yeah.  That's what I need - someone to make me finish what I've started before I can start another project.

From what I understand this is an epidemic in the quilting world, so I don't feel so bad with only five (and counting!) open projects.  But I don't want my current project list to get so large that I'm overwhelmed and it causes me to lose momentum (this is only projects I'm currently sewing on.. this doesn't count buying fabric for future projects, because that would just be silly).

Project List:

  1. Asian Lanterns - Paper Pieced. I've been collecting Asian fabrics for a few years now and have finally started on this one.
  2. Purple Lemoyne Stars - I've also been collecting purple fabrics for a while now and have also recently started on this one.  I am using the Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star ruler for this project.
  3. Pam Bono's Spring in Ireland Quilt- I have nothing to link to here.  Thankfully I had downloaded all of the .pdf files before Pam's Club site went down. 
  4. Phoebe's Flower Box - I'm using the Moda fabric Weeds by Me and My Sister Designs.  This is my current "bonus" quilt.  I always have an easy put together quilt cut and ready to go as the anchors for my chain piecing instead of using scrap fabric.  My mother taught me this trick and this will be my 2nd "bonus" quilt using this method.  Other than the cutting, this isn't something I ever work on specifically until all the blocks are finished and it's ready to be sewn together.  You'd be surprised how fast these come together!  Does anyone else out there do this?  I'd love to  hear about it.
  5. Grandmother's Flower Garden - I am doing some handwork (very very slow progress!) and have designed a hexagon quilt that I really like.  Unfortunately now I have to hand sew all those little buggers together!
In addition to my project list, I also have a few quilts that need to be quilted.

I have recently received a hand-me-down short arm quilting machine and frame.  My mother got a new-to-her long arm machine so I got her old short arm!  Which is now living in half of my two car garage.  My garage in Texas.  In the Texas Summer.  As you can imagine I'm not getting a lot of practice in right now.  Weekend mornings is about all I can handle.  I am starting to understand where the term 'sweatshop' came from.    

I would like to quilt everything I put together from here on out, but it will be awhile before I'm brave enough to load my work onto the machine.  I'll have to start up (!) a couple charity quilts or something!  I recently finished a baby quilt for a woman I work with (the subject of my next post) and I was too scared to try to quilt it myself and had my mom do it. 

How many open projects do you have going?

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