My quilting WIPs and UFOs in April 2019

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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", but 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. Some of them I've started on, and some are still waiting for the others to get finished so I'll get more room to work on them.

It's May the 1st (yeah, not even May the 4th and Star Wars day, sigh...) as I'm writing this. I attended the spring exhibit at Arbis with three of my own quilts (Violet Evergarden, Autumn Kingfisher and Rainbow Scraps). I took a lot of photos and posted about it all on Instagram.

Lots have also happened on the quilting front since April ended, and even if it felt like I have had the worst rotten luck the last few months (the slipped disc in my spine, the toe that luckily wasn't broken, the stomach flu and all the other flu episodes...) some projects have still had some progress.

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These are my WIPs

1. Violet and Orange Sawtooth Stars (aka the Odd blocks color quilt nr 2)
  • No progress these last three months!
  • Schedule: 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

  • Progress! The quilt got washed and was on display at the spring exhibit at Arbis. One small part is already embroidered, but I want to add more.
  • Schedule: it needs more embroidery, a label, finished photos taken, and being blogged about.

4. the 12 Color blocks quilts



  • Progress! Philip's quilt got embroidered, sent and blogged about. Klaus' quilt also got embroidered, sent and blogged about.
  • Out of the 12 quilts, I have only 3 left. One is already basted and needs to be quilted and given to its recipient. One other needs batting and then to be quilted. Then, there will only be one left.
  • Schedule: Two needs to be quilted, and then the last one needs to get a recipient. Just think about it: soon 12 children will have gotten nearly identical quilts.
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: Only thing that I need is time - time to sit and sew the rest of the blocks and then sew them together.
  • Schedule: It's competing with R(ed) is for Rita and other hand-quilting projects for time.
6. The ”Lucy’s Terrace”-quilt (not yet started)
  • a Lucy Boston ”Patchwork of the Crosses” variant by Jodi Godfrey of Tales of Cloth.
  • Progress! No real progress this month, but I did check through the fabric scraps at Arbis, before the semester ended, to see if I could find any scraps that might fit for some blocks.
  • Schedule: Other projects need to be finished before I can start on this one.

7. the quilts of the Hand Pieced QAL (quilt along)


  • Arranged by Kristin Esser of Simple Handmade Everyday and Patty Dudek of Elm Street Quilts. This QAL ended on the 30.04.2019. My entries are nr 9 and nr 10 in the link-up.
  • Progress! The QAL started in January, and ended on April 30th. I have made two (!) very different quilt tops from two separate sets of the blocks; I named them Discovery and Defiant.
  • Schedule: they need to be hand-quilted, and that will take quite some time. I have already started on Defiant, and I have that quilting design already figured out, but I need one for Discovery.

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.
  • Schedule: Other projects need to be finished before I can start on this one.

9. Tula Pink’s ”City Sampler”-quilt (not yet started)
  • 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, but is going to be her own block sets, so I can’t take part in that with this. I have to just make it on my own.
  • Schedule: Other projects need to be finished before I can start on this one.

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 raided the Arbis fabric stash during February-March and found several taupes and blues that also might work for it. Back in October 2018 I picked 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 did NOT choose any colors or fabrics that screams kawaii, but more somber ones that could perhaps be mistaken for everyday kimono/yukatan or indigo dyed fabrics.
  • Schedule: Other projects need to be finished before I can start on this one.

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. 
  • Schedule: Other projects need to be finished before I can really start on this one, but I have already prepped two 15 x 30 cm ticker tape tile blocks.

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 time to start this one. I want to do it with EPP.
  • Progress! I have gotten the book loaned via inter-library loan, and I have started cutting out templates from card stock. I just need to finish the Hand Pieced QAL quilt tops first to start working actively on this one.

7. My version of the Jolly Bar Meringue-quilt (not yet started)
  • No progress yet, but has been 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.
  • Schedule: Other projects need to be finished before I can start on this one.

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? 
  • Progress: progress report since the project started is now
    • Corner blocks sewn/needed/prepped: 4/4/4
    • White blocks sewn/needed/prepped: 12/36/36
    • Dark red blocks sewn/needed/prepped: 7/25/25
    • Light red blocks sewn/needed/prepped: 8/24/24
  • Schedule: The quilts for the Hand Pieced QAL just got before this one in my "sewing queue", and I've had to just concentrate on those while my back has been getting slowly better. I did however prep hexie flowers while I was still laying on bed rest! If there's a will (and painkillers), there's a way.
9. my secret Hearts 2019 birthday quilt
  • Progress: I have gotten all the swap blocks that I think will arrive, and I have managed to piece three blocks in April.
  • Schedule: I finally decided on a layout for the quilt top, and it means I have to make more of the red heart blocks.

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And these are now my UFO:s

1. English Teatime (moved from WIP)
  • Hasn't been touched.
  • Schedule: I need to plan out how I want the blocks to be, and then decide upon a layout. I have so much going on, this one will have to wait a bit.

2. the Jeans 10/10 cm quilt
  • Hasn't been touched.

3. the Pecking Order quilt, nr 1
  • Hasn't been touched.

4. Pecking Order nr 2
  • Hasn't been touched.

5. Peking Order nr 3
  • Hasn't been touched.

6. the Odd blocks color quilt nr 1
  • Is gonna be all the odd 5 x 5 cm 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?

7. the Odd blocks color quilt nr 3
  • Hasn't been touched.
  • 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Three free motion quilting projects
  • Hasn't been touched.
  • these involve fleece blankets and my maternal grandmother's doilies.


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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 May!


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