Saturday, January 15, 2022

I need variety!

 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:

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!

2 comments:

The Joyful Quilter said...

You unearthed some great projects! Best of luck on developing a plan to make some progress on them.

Nann said...

I took a look at Swansons website. Wish I'd known about that shop when we were in the Berkshires last fall....well, considering how much I got at other quilt shops, maybe not.....