I've got a friend with a big surgery coming up in a couple of months, so I want to give them a quilt. When considering my (considerable) UFOs, my plaid string quilt seemed like a good option for them, based on Julie's beautiful creation.
It's up on the design wall and I've completed a few more 9-patches and sashings, but man! Now I remember why I fizzled out with this quilt. I'm excited about how it is going to look, but it is so boring for me to create. Part of why I love scrap quilts is that there are so many different fabrics playing together. With this one, it's just plaid. I'm gonna do it, but I need something to spice up my sewing stints as well.
Today I finished my January Bee Blocks:
Finished sewing together all of the 2022 Stashbuster blocks that I had precut:
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| I'm going for a non-traditional holiday quilt look |
And worked on this scrappy bear paw variation that I started over winter break:
I also did some purging, identifying some orphan blocks, some fabric and some thread that I plan to take to Swansons to swap out for some quilting scraps, and along the way I unearthed some of the quilts I started hand quilting but never finished. I need to commit to getting back to them. There's the one I made for my bed around 15 years ago but never finished:
And this scrap quilt where I was playing with big stitch quilting in a rainbow of colors - I completely forgot this quilt even existed:
There's this mini twister quilt made from salvaged pillowcases:
Completely forgot about this sailboat baby quilt:
And this self-portrait:
There were others, too. I amaze myself sometimes with how much I DON'T finish! Time to change that!
