My quilting WIPs and UFOs in January 2019
It's a new year.
New possibilities, and new experiences to be had in quilting.
The semi-official theme I've kinda chosen for my focus this year is hand-sewing. (Lots of American bloggers seem hard on having these "words of the year". I think I'm gonna stick to my "crafting themes of the year" instead ;)
I already have lots of projects in my WIP:s to start with that hand-sewing; R is for Rita, the Second Christmas quilt, the Discovery quilt (of the Hand Pieced QAL), the Sashiko quilt, the Summer Kingfisher quilt......
New possibilities, and new experiences to be had in quilting.
The semi-official theme I've kinda chosen for my focus this year is hand-sewing. (Lots of American bloggers seem hard on having these "words of the year". I think I'm gonna stick to my "crafting themes of the year" instead ;)
I already have lots of projects in my WIP:s to start with that hand-sewing; R is for Rita, the Second Christmas quilt, the Discovery quilt (of the Hand Pieced QAL), the Sashiko quilt, the Summer Kingfisher quilt......
Lots have also happened on the quilting front since New Year, starting with my inflamed hand getting better. I moved all the planned quilts I had written about in to the WIP section here under, even if some of them clearly will be UFO:s for a while because of the sheer amount of WIP:s I currently have going on.
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These are my WIPs
1. Violet and Orange Sawtooth Stars (aka the Odd blocks color quilt nr 2)
- No progress this month!
- I'm waiting to be able to afford more white fabric for it, then I can continue with the QAYG on it.
- No progress this month!
- I'm waiting to be able to afford more white fabric for it, then I can continue with the QAYG on it.
2. Violet Evergarden
- Some progress has been made! Some free motion quilting has been done on it, but I think I might have to do some hand-quilting on it for it to look like I want it to.
3. English Teatime
- No progress!
- I need to plan out how I want the blocks to be, and then decide upon a layout.
- Some progress has been made! Some free motion quilting has been done on it, but I think I might have to do some hand-quilting on it for it to look like I want it to.
3. English Teatime
- No progress!
- I need to plan out how I want the blocks to be, and then decide upon a layout.
4. the 12 Color blocks quilts
- No progress since New Year's Eve, I still have those last 4 left to baste, quilt and bind.
- I have spray glue, and backings for them all, plus enough white binding for about one of them. I'm just waiting to be able to afford more batting and white fabric.
5. the Second Christmas quilt (an EPP hexagon quilt)
- This one was an EPP project that got started kind of by accident (as in, I got bored and wanted to use up the rest of the Christmas fabric I had lying around since I finished the Christmas quilt "God Jul").
- Progress so far: I've finally gotten more red fabric!
6. The ”Lucy’s Terrace”-quilt
- a Lucy Boston ”Patchwork of the Crosses” variant by Jodi Godfrey of Tales of Cloth.
- Progress! I've gotten a little more than 600 honeycomb templates cut out, so I think I will be good to go. I’ve also chosen one ”feature fabric” for the blocks (a fabric I hope will be enough for all the centers, so the blocks will look somewhat cohesive).
7. the quilt of the Hand Pieced QAL (quilt along)
- Arranged by Kristin Esser of Simple Handmade Everyday. and Patty Dudek of Elm Street Quilts, found on this page.
- Progress! The QAL has started, and I have sewn the first two blocks.
- a Lucy Boston ”Patchwork of the Crosses” variant by Jodi Godfrey of Tales of Cloth.
- Progress! I've gotten a little more than 600 honeycomb templates cut out, so I think I will be good to go. I’ve also chosen one ”feature fabric” for the blocks (a fabric I hope will be enough for all the centers, so the blocks will look somewhat cohesive).
7. the quilt of the Hand Pieced QAL (quilt along)
- Arranged by Kristin Esser of Simple Handmade Everyday. and Patty Dudek of Elm Street Quilts, found on this page.
- Progress! The QAL has started, and I have sewn the first two blocks.
8. A spring/summer version of the Kingfisher quilt (not yet started)
- All of the background diamonds and border fabrics have been cut out. I will need to go through my scraps and find bright and colorful fabrics to make the matching 46 hexie flowers.
9. Tula Pink’s ”City Sampler”-quilt (not yet started)
- All of the background diamonds and border fabrics have been cut out. I will need to go through my scraps and find bright and colorful fabrics to make the matching 46 hexie flowers.
- I want to make it in denim. With sashiko details, and maybe also some boro too.
- Gnome Angel will be hosting another "100 blocks 100 days"-event in 2019, so I think I want to take part in that with this.
- I want to make it in denim. With sashiko details, and maybe also some boro too.
- Gnome Angel will be hosting another "100 blocks 100 days"-event in 2019, so I think I want to take part in that with this.
10. a Japanese sashiko-themed quilt (not yet started)
- With sashiko, EPP and applique. In parts with designs taken from Susan Briscoe’s books.
- all of the background diamonds have been cut, and most of the borders already thought out. The applique and EPP pieces and sashiko motifs still need to be chosen out of the books.
- Progress! I have started (actually already back in October) to pick out and set aside fabric scraps with taupe, blues and fabrics which (to me) seem to fit a sort of Japanese wabi sabi theme. I most pointedly am NOT choosing any colors or fabrics that screams kawaii, but more somber ones that could perhaps be mistaken for everyday kimono or indigo dyed fabrics.
- With sashiko, EPP and applique. In parts with designs taken from Susan Briscoe’s books.
- all of the background diamonds have been cut, and most of the borders already thought out. The applique and EPP pieces and sashiko motifs still need to be chosen out of the books.
- Progress! I have started (actually already back in October) to pick out and set aside fabric scraps with taupe, blues and fabrics which (to me) seem to fit a sort of Japanese wabi sabi theme. I most pointedly am NOT choosing any colors or fabrics that screams kawaii, but more somber ones that could perhaps be mistaken for everyday kimono or indigo dyed fabrics.
11. some kind of scrap quilt (not yet started)
- Made from the orange ticker tape tile, and maybe other ticker tape tiles or orphan blocks I’ve already sewn.
- I found a little more of the same background fabric I've used for the orange ticker tape block, they were in my folder of neutral scraps.
- Made from the orange ticker tape tile, and maybe other ticker tape tiles or orphan blocks I’ve already sewn.
- I found a little more of the same background fabric I've used for the orange ticker tape block, they were in my folder of neutral scraps.
12. the Farmer's Wife 1920 quilt (not yet started)
- for the QAL hosted by Gnomeangel. This event started on August 24th 2018 and will end on October 25th 2019. Meaning, I have more than enough time to start this one in January. I want to do it with EPP.
- Progress! I did some planning on this. I still don’t have the book, but since the block sizes (6 x 6 inches finished) were known I sat down and did some quilt math. I’ve come to the conclusion that if I want to make the quilt it can’t be in the original size - I need to make the blocks 1/2 the original size. And since I want to do it with EPP, I tried to plot out and cut out the seven first block pieces from card stock. I’m still undecided in regards to color palette and fabric choices, though. I picked out two variants, one in black-white-teal blue and one in dove grey-warm yellow. But, I need to do some more planning.
- for the QAL hosted by Gnomeangel. This event started on August 24th 2018 and will end on October 25th 2019. Meaning, I have more than enough time to start this one in January. I want to do it with EPP.
- Progress! I did some planning on this. I still don’t have the book, but since the block sizes (6 x 6 inches finished) were known I sat down and did some quilt math. I’ve come to the conclusion that if I want to make the quilt it can’t be in the original size - I need to make the blocks 1/2 the original size. And since I want to do it with EPP, I tried to plot out and cut out the seven first block pieces from card stock. I’m still undecided in regards to color palette and fabric choices, though. I picked out two variants, one in black-white-teal blue and one in dove grey-warm yellow. But, I need to do some more planning.
7. My version of the Jolly Bar Meringue-quilt (not yet started)
- Prepped for during November 2018! Because, while reading the (then newest) blog post that Kristin Esser (of Simple Handmade Everyday) wrote about her making her version of this Fat Quarter Shop pattern, I just got so inspired that I went through my stash and pulled out old thrifted pillow cases, odd whites, old thrifted and gifted sheets, and odd neutral scraps from my neutral scrap folder. While I was doing that, I found a panel with bunnies and some sheets that had embroidered motifs on them. Not sure if those will be added somehow, but I did cut up all the neutrals into 10 x 15 cm pieces (which isn't the 5 x 10 inches that the pattern has, but I didn't have scraps that large, so I just made them as large as I could).
- Somehow, these neutrals and warm browns remind me of "taupe", a color used frequently in traditional Japanese quilts together with indigo and whites.
- Prepped for during November 2018! Because, while reading the (then newest) blog post that Kristin Esser (of Simple Handmade Everyday) wrote about her making her version of this Fat Quarter Shop pattern, I just got so inspired that I went through my stash and pulled out old thrifted pillow cases, odd whites, old thrifted and gifted sheets, and odd neutral scraps from my neutral scrap folder. While I was doing that, I found a panel with bunnies and some sheets that had embroidered motifs on them. Not sure if those will be added somehow, but I did cut up all the neutrals into 10 x 15 cm pieces (which isn't the 5 x 10 inches that the pattern has, but I didn't have scraps that large, so I just made them as large as I could).
- Somehow, these neutrals and warm browns remind me of "taupe", a color used frequently in traditional Japanese quilts together with indigo and whites.
8. R is for Rita (a quilt inspired by the "B is for Blue" hexagon quilt)
- Again, while reading the (then newest) blog post that Rita Hodge (of Red Pepper quilts) had written about her finishing the quilt top for this soon-to-be-quilted quilt, something just clicked in my mind. I had made all of these white glue basted hexagons back in May - June, and not really found anything to do with them. So I thought, why not use them up with this pattern?
- read about her "B is for Blue - a hexagon quilt" here: part 1 and part 2.
- Progress! I have two rows already sewn together, and I have all the white hexie flower parts basted and "painter taped" so I can start sewing those together into rows too. I also have a few more of the red hexie flowers prepped and ready to sew.
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And these are now my UFO:s
1. the Jeans 10/10 cm quilt
- Hasn't been touched.
2. the Pecking Order quilt, nr 1
- Hasn't been touched.
- Hasn't been touched.
- Hasn't been touched.
3. Pecking Order nr 2
- Hasn't been touched.
4. Peking Order nr 3
- Hasn't been touched.
5. the Odd blocks color quilt nr 1
- Is gonna be all the odd 5x5cm pieces left over from the color block quilts, sewn together into 16-patches. So far, I have just a few done.
- Maybe it could be made into an Irish chain-block variant? Or the centers of Sawtooth Stars-blocks?
6. the Odd blocks color quilt nr 3
- Still at the same stage *sigh*
- The quilt top is done, and I have a backing fabric waiting for it. It needs to be basted, so I’m still stuck on this one. Also, it needs a quilting plan and binding.
7. Wanta Fanta
- Hasn't been touched.
- This one is a paper piecing pattern I wanted to try my sewing skills on. I have a few blocks done. At this point, I’m not terribly enamored with this project anymore.
8. Circles of color quilt
- Hasn't been touched.
- inspired by Jessica Skultety's quilt "Bubble trail", but my circles will be sewn via this method to the background instead of raw edge applique.
9. Three free motion quilting projects (moved from WIP)
- Hasn't been touched.
- these involve fleece blankets and my maternal grandmother's doilies.
And that should be it for all my current ongoing quilting projects and in-the-closet-languishing-ones. I hope to write another update again in one month.
Until then, hope you all have some happy quilting fun and a great start on the new year 2019!
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