Category Archives: Work-in-progress

October 2, 2013 · 07:39

WIP Wednesday

“Leftovers II” is now a finished quilt top added to the huge pile of tops waiting to be sandwiched, quilted and bound. I’m embarrassed to admit how many I have in the pile. I’ve been waiting for cooler weather because most of my quilts are king size and it is just way to hot to have all that fabric draped across your body on a hot summer day. The last quarter of the finish-a-long will be starting soon so that is my kick in the butt to get some of these tops finished.

I’ve started working on a new lap quilt using the Tropical Punch pattern from Timeless Treasures. I bought it as a kit but I had to buy some additional fabric to make it a little larger. So far I’ve cut more than 250 HSTs and 144 5×5 squares.

Linking up to WIP Wednesday @ The Needle and Thread Network , Freshly Pieced and Needle and Thread Thursday @My Quilt Infatuation

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for borders
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	Binding
Leftovers II	Lap	quilt top
Tropical Punch	Lap	piecing
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King
Star Surround QAL	Lap/Twin

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September 24, 2013 · 18:31

WIP Wednesday

I have made some progress on “Leftovers II”. I think that adding the cream sashing has really helped to improve the design. Unfortunately this new design calls for a few more 3×3 blocks that my original design so I have to do a little more cutting and piecing work before I can finish assembling all the blocks together.

I took an APQS long arm for a test drive. I decided to use my “Leftovers I” quilt top as the guinea pig. I did a panto design and it turned out pretty good for my first time on a long arm. I’ve been dreaming of owning one for a while now….after the hands on play time……I am really, really, really wanting one now. It only took 3 hours to quilt it…..it would have taken me way longer on my domestic machine.

Linking up to WIP Wednesday @ The Needle and Thread Network , Freshly Pieced and Needle and Thread Thursday @My Quilt Infatuation

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for borders
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	Binding
Leftovers II	Lap	piecing

Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King
Star Surround QAL	Lap/Twin

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August 21, 2013 · 20:03

WIP – Week #6

We are at the exciting step of assembling our Star Surround QAL blocks. Here is my first one…only 15 more to go.

No sign of my Kona solids order so I’ve given up on that idea and bought two other fabrics to use as background for my ‘Leftovers II’ quilt. I hope the idea in my head turns out as nice in real life. Tomorrow I will start laying out the blocks and see if I like the design…if not…then I’m going to have to come up with a new way to assemble the blocks. No worries, it is just all part of the creative process.

Linking up to WIP Wednesday @ Freshly Pieced and The Needle and Thread Network

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for border s
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers II	Lap	piecing
Star Surround QAL	Lap	piecing
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King

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August 14, 2013 · 19:47

WIP Week #5

I’ve managed to get all 35 of my 6×6 blocks done and 4 of the 24 3×3’s. I’ve ordered some fabric to use for my background but it hasn’t arrived yet so I am going to be in waiting mode soon.

We are starting to assemble our centre blocks in the Star Surround QAL. I’ve got one inner star completed…..only fifteen more to go.

Linking up to The Needle and Thread Network, Freshly Pieced:WIP and Happy Quilting: Star Surround Quilt-a-long.

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for border s
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers II	Lap	piecing
Star Surround QAL	Lap	piecing
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King

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August 7, 2013 · 18:50

WIP Wednesday #4 and QAL Week #4

I have the week off work so I’ve been able to play in my studio a lot more than I normally would. This is week four of the Star Surround Quilt-a-long (QAL) and this week I had to cut and piece 192 flying geese. Here are mine all pressed and ready to go. The past two weeks I have finished my assignments with just hours to spare before the deadline. This week I am finished 4 days early…..yeah me!!! Next week we start assembling our first block.

I also started working on Leftovers II. I had so many left over 1-1/2″ wide strips of fabric from my Blue Odyssey Quilt so I came up with a new quilt design to utilize a few of them. It will have thirty five 6×6 blocks of 1 inch squares and twenty four 3×3 blocks of 1 inch squares set on point and then a border of 1×1 inch squares. I haven’t decided if my background will be a bright white kona solid or a deep black. I’ve ordered both from my local quilt store and I will make my decision once I can lay out my blocks and see which one makes it ‘sing’.

Linking up to The Needle and Thread Network and Happy Quilting: Star Surround Quilt-a-long.

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for border s
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers II	Lap	piecing
Star Surround QAL	Lap	piecing
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King

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July 24, 2013 · 16:02

WIP Wednesday #2

I’ve started cutting all the fat quarters for my Star Surround QAL. Lots of cutting left to do to make this week’s goal.

I managed to do quite a bit of work on my Leftovers I quilt this past week. I’ve got all the rows done…..now comes the task of joining together 56 rows that are only 1-3/8″ wide (7/8″ finished) with tons of seams to match up. Why do I create such time consuming patterns……maybe that is why I keep switching from one project to another???

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for borders
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	piecing
Leftovers II	Lap	piecing
Star Surround QAL	Lap	cutting
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King

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July 17, 2013 · 19:49

WIP Wednesday

OK I admit it, I am a quilt-a-holic with a touch of ADHD. Whenever I start a new project I am all excited about my vision, totally in love with my fabric and I can’t wait to get started. I can spend hours cutting fabric, piecing, pressing and creating blocks…..and then all of a sudden I start to lose interest when I have to make many copies of the same blocks or repeat the same type of piecing over and over again. And that’s when it happens…my mind starts to wonder and I start dreaming of new ideas, some beautiful fabric or a quilt I saw on Pinterest. Next thing I know I am moving my current project to the side and starting something new (hello……joining the QAL last week in the middle of working on Leftovers I). I am an addict and I need a 12 step program. I thought the FAL (finish-a-long) that I started in January was the answer to my problem….mmmmm not so much. I was good in the first quarter. I only started one new quilt and I finished all but one project and that was because the thread I ordered didn’t arrive. I lost momentum in the second quarter. I only finished one of my 4 projects. The deadline for the third quarter has passed and I didn’t even manage to pick anything that I wanted to finish. Last week I stumbled across a Canadian blog called the Needle and Thread Network that helps quilt-a-holics like me to keep all their works-in-progress (WIP) front and centre so that they cannot easily be ignored. I am hoping that this is going to help me get my addiction to starting new projects under control. This is my first WIP Wednesday post.

So here it is. I am working on a quilt called Leftovers I. I am making it with tiny 2-1/2″ x 1-3/8″ pieces of fabric left over from my Blue Odyssey quilt that I finished in January.

It is also week one of the Star Surround QAL. I’m visiting all my favourite quilt stores looking for 16 fat quarters, background, binding and backing fabric. Next week we start cutting.

Here is my list of 2013 WIP and completions:

2013 WIP	Size	Current status
Pink & blue batik	King	waiting for borders
Asian Shadow Box	King	waiting for borders
2012 BOM ‘Blues’	King	quilt top
2012 BOM ‘Opera	King	quilt top
Kimono	Wall hanging	quilt top
Waterlily	Wall hanging	quilt top
One block wonder	Queen	piecing
Peacock	Lap	quilt top
Leftovers I	Lap	piecing
Leftovers II	Lap	piecing
Star Surround QAL	Lap	fabric selection
Blue Hydrangea	King	FMQ
Dragonflies	Wall hanging	Binding


2013 Completions	Size
2011 BOM ‘Spring	King
Blue Odyssey	King
Kassidy’s flannel	Baby
Sue’s Summer Breeze	Queen/King