My quilting WIPs and UFOs in May 2019
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 ;)
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May came, May went.
After having to gradually cut down on my dosage on the depression medication, I'm finally rid of it. Hopefully, the good it did will stay, and the bad side-effects will go away. It does feel odd though, being able to NOT having to eat snacks all the time to keep up my blood sugar, and NOT having to go to bed at 21:00 at the latest every evening.
I've really been using sewing as a kind of escape from the withdrawal symptoms, I'll readily attest to that. I've had weird days and bad days and good days. My back suddenly also wanted in on the party, so during the last week in May I had to eat painkillers some days to be able to be up at all.
But, sewing as a distraction helped get some things get lots of progress, so lets start reviewing :)
Oh, and I put the projects that I' haven't started making into their own category; NYS:s. Which stands for Not-Yet-Started ones.
After having to gradually cut down on my dosage on the depression medication, I'm finally rid of it. Hopefully, the good it did will stay, and the bad side-effects will go away. It does feel odd though, being able to NOT having to eat snacks all the time to keep up my blood sugar, and NOT having to go to bed at 21:00 at the latest every evening.
I've really been using sewing as a kind of escape from the withdrawal symptoms, I'll readily attest to that. I've had weird days and bad days and good days. My back suddenly also wanted in on the party, so during the last week in May I had to eat painkillers some days to be able to be up at all.
But, sewing as a distraction helped get some things get lots of progress, so lets start reviewing :)
Oh, and I put the projects that I' haven't started making into their own category; NYS:s. Which stands for Not-Yet-Started ones.
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These are my WIPs
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1. Violet and Orange Sawtooth Stars (aka the Odd blocks color quilt nr 2)
- Progress! I could finally buy enough white (Perla A100) cotton fabric to finish making the sashings! And now one of the rows have already been quilted, and out of the 6 rows in total only one is left to be assembled. It's taking me A LOT of pinning to get this done...
- Schedule: That last row needs to be sewn, and the whole quilt-as-you-go quilt (top + bottom) needs to be assembled. And then bound, labeled and blogged about.
2. Violet Evergarden
- Progress: There's been no real progress since the last update. 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 STILL needs more embroidery, a label, finished photos taken, and being blogged about...
- Progress! I've gotten Julia's quilt to the stage that I only need to quilt and bind it. I even started quilting it, but then ... I just hated the motif I had chosen for it and had to rip it all out. I feel a bit stuck on what to do with it, so I've had to put it to the side for a little while so I can start figuring it out.
- So, out of the original 12 quilts, I have only 3 left. Julia's needs to be finished. I've gotten more batting for one more. Then, there will only be one left.
- Schedule: Two needs to be quilted and finished, and then the last one needs to get a recipient. Just think about it: soon 12 children will have gotten nearly identical quilts.
4. 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: I cut out more of the big background triangles got them glue-basted (with nice corners I might add, hence the small quilt confetti in the photo).
- Schedule: Just more hand-sewing time is really needed. And it's competing with R(ed) is for Rita and the other hand-quilting projects for time.
5. 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 Defiant quilt top got basted and I got SO close to getting it all quilted! On the 31st I had only 6 small lines left to quilt on it. But, my children wanted a bedtime story, so officially it got done on June 1st. Discovery is still just a top.
- Schedule: Defiant needs to be bound, labeled and blogged about. Discovery needs a quilting plan, being quilted, a label, binding and to be blogged about.
- 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.
- Progress: I've glue-basted all the EPP-blocks I could get from the red fabric I had planned to use. I also tested out the layout I had planned, and I think it will work, but I'm still debating whether or not to add a border.
- Schedule: All the remaining EPP hearts need to be sewn and appliqued on top of the neutral backgrounds. And then it's just basting, quilting, binding, labeling and blogging about it left.
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And these are my NYS:s
(not-yet-started ones)
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1. The ”Lucy’s Terrace”-quilt (not yet started)
- a Lucy Boston ”Patchwork of the Crosses” variant by Jodi Godfrey of Tales of Cloth.
- Schedule: Other projects need to be finished before I can start on this one.
- 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.
3. 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 (The Kinship Sampler), 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.
4. 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.
- Schedule: Other projects need to be finished before I can start on this one.
5. 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.
- 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.
6. 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 currently have been cutting EPP-pieces out of accumulated card-stock, but I still need more.
- Schedule: Other projects need to be finished before I can really start on this one.
- 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.
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And these are now my UFO:s
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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, I hope you all had some fun in May, and are looking forwards to a (hopefully) sunny and nice June. I'm hoping for less mosquitoes (but I don't think that'll happen...) so I can sit outside on our patio and sew :)
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