What are your current quilting projects?

Sewing the binding and labels on 2 quilts for DS1 & DS2 for Christmas. Carrying on with denim & flannel quilt for DD also for Christmas. A couple of postcards for a swap I'm in. Make a quick baby quilt for DMIL's cancer charity raffle in October.

I also hope to continue/complete at least one or two more WIPs that have been languishing for too long.

Lizzy

I'm working on winter swap blocks for another group. Then I'm afraid I have to put up the quilting and do some slacks alterations for my DD.

My plan is not working. I went through the scraps bin; sorted it into strips, squares and hunks. Beginning with the squares and advancing in a sort of 'log cabin' manner, I'm making scrappy blocks with the foolish notion of reducing the explosion in the scrap bin. No matter how much I use, it never seems to dimish. Ah well. Polly

Pat >> With school starting, vacations over, relatives gone back home

I am making a manly Japanese fabric inspired quilt in black, white, red and gold for my son, finishing my Dresden plate, and a few special little things for the pending baby due Nov. 11th.

Right now I'm quilting a blue/yellow table runner that will be a Christmas gift for MIL -- so that she won't take mine home with her. ;) After that, I have to make a Christmas stocking for DGD (I think I have everything for it now, except for a piece of ribbon to hang it by), and then I have some things waiting to be quilted. Next week I'll be teaching my quilt group how to paper piece. Nothing enormous, but I'm staying busy! :)

I am making DH a poker quilt with cards, poker chips, money, and the dogs playing poker prints. I am using the Turning Twenty ...Again pattern.

Sherry Starr

Just finished MOI Poiple Log Cabin and the latest tablerunner/placemat set, and now have DD's Plane Quilt on the Design Wall.

I 'counted' the list of Quilts, WUH, and Placemat sets that I have in various stages from cut out to partially quilted to have the fabric but not the pattern and came up with 56. Add on a housecoat for MOI and a Butterfly Blouse to sew, and finish with the 3 afghans (2 crochet and one knit) in various stages that I need to finish and you know what I have been up to.

Butterfly (who spent some of yesterday and today doing a lil bit of crocheting--thus not online)

I am finishing up a challenge, send a gallon bag of fabric and get back a quilt top. It is due September 30, I will get done in time but just barely! The lesson I am learning is that half square triangles add a lot of variety and interest to a project but take more time to make than regular squares. Next is a lap size quilt for my sister in law who is facing some scary surgery next month. I do have a stack of appropriate blocks from a swap several years ago so all I have to do is get it done. Also, I want to make Carol Doak's block of the month from her yahoo group. If I get it done before the end of the month I will be eligible for a prize drawing. Then, there is the annual Christmas auction for which I make a quilt. Got to start thinking about what to make. And here I was thinking that I could coast now that I have gotten the three HS graduation quilts done...

Mary

I'm making 2 Christmas stockings for my dogs, 4 dog quilts and matching dog placemats for a "no kill" dog rescue org for their fall fundraiser, and making a bunch of little needle books for small Christmas gifts.

Patti in Seattle

I'm working on a quilt called Love's Labyrinth from Courtship Quilts (Janna L. Sheppard) - my own colours of course - another border or two and it will be a finished top. It has fans and appliqued flowers and it's quite different really. Think I'll send it out to be quilted tho' - don't seem to enjoy that part much any more. AND I've got so much fabric that I think I better get busy and use some of it up - darn stuff just seems to breed during the night. :-))

Sharon (N.B.)

OH MY!

I am trying to finish so many things because I have committed to going back to Michigan for Christmas and want to give everyone a quilt. Its been an idea for years and some I started in the last year and some Istarted over a dozen years ago.

Woven baskets with appliqued flowers for Mom and Sister Appliqued kimono prints and sashiko for BIL Appliqued fish and 3-D lily pad and flower for BIL Nighty-Nite girl for niece Nighty-Nite boy for nephew-almost done. Appliqued orange and beaded silhouette of a naked women for my Aunt-It's actually done so I need to take a picture for all of you. For my other sister I don't know yet and time is counting.

Most are sewed but need to be quilted, and I am doing it by hand and then the binding. Bert will be gone for two weeks in October. Guess what I will be doing morning, noon, and night when I am not at school?

Oh, and my nephew graduates this year and Deb is retiring from teaching so there are two more to make. I'm crazy but aren't we all?

Steve Alaska

Right now I am working on the Pink Hug Quilt for my friend. This is a support for when she has the mastectomy. Some generous quilters from RCTQ Land have sent lovely pink fabric to enrich the quilt.

We have not had this thread in a while, so it will be fun to read the replies! Thanks,

Pat in Virginia

Howdy!

See? What'd I say?

R/Sandy--noting the difference in "are" & "our" in one of my posts-- god, I need a nap!

Is "Nighty-Nite" a pattern name, or just what the intended quilt is meant to be used for?

MAmadurk, curious

I'm just finishing the label and hanging sleeve for the card-tricks wall-hanging I made for my bathroom to match my favourite towel. (Is it crazy to have a wall-hanging in the bathroom?)

My big purple hand-pieced thing is almost done the quilt top. It's hanging up while I think about borders.

I have some fabric and an instruction book for doing a Stack and Whack, but I'm waiting until I feel brave and alert to start cutting.

And I'm picking out fabrics for the first Block of the Month in the guild I just joined.

Louise, in Kingston Ontario

I started another one of those Quilt from Hell things from my leftover stash of never ending diagonal squares. This time it is a Bargetto pattern. We have a Bicentenial celebration show for Fredericktown, where I live, that most of the people who quilt and do other things, Needlepoint, Painting, whatever, are entering. It is coming up on the

20th of October and I decided, what the he**. I am going to go for it. I have to make the quilt and also the stand to show it on. That is going to cut it kind of thin. The quilt is 6' x 6' so were not talking wall hanging here folks. I have 7 of 42, 6' strips of squares done. I told myself I would not do another one of these things, but you know how it is. I just can't help myself.

John

Finishing up basted quilts that got set aside uncompleted......there are two. After that, if I can find the time, a break from quilting to sew some Actual Curtains for the house.....then back to quilting!

--pig

Hi

It was a pattern in a quilt magazine about 15 years ago. It was a boy or girl asleep with their rabbit or bear and their blanket covering them was a quilt. If you would like the pattern I will make a copy for you.

I try to scan the main picture tomorrow and email it to you.

Steven Alaska

MAmadurk, curious

No excuses from here. I had a lovely nap from 10 until noon. Sometimes I can even spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious or (the longest word in Mississippi's vocabulary - howsyourmomanthem). Polly (that was fun; SpellCheck is hysterical)