Current Projects

Just because I wanted to start an on topic thread, and just because I am nosy, and just because ....

What is your current project? More than one? What's happening in your corner of the RCTQ bee?

Last night I won about 6 FQ in the FQ drawing at guild ... these have a Valentine motif, but I do not have a Valentine project going right now. There is still time though!

I am still spearheading the Double Irish Chain Quilt for Relay for Life. I've made twelve of the checkerboard style blocks. I hope the rest of the crew will have their blocks ready by next week.

Tonight I am presenting a BOM to my evening bee. I choose a boxes pattern. It is a simple 10" square .... a 5" square surrounded by 2.5" logs. I am requesting each person submit two blocks to qualify for the drawing. One block will be white on black print square surrounded by black on white print logs. The second block will be opposite. I hope the winner has fun choosing an accent color. I really like the sample blocks I made. Right now I need to head to the copy shop to run copies for the members, so bye for now!

PAT in VA/USA

Last night I finished the last applique on my Adoration wall hanging, though I have yet to get the last few blocks photographed and on my website. I have to add a few embroidered touches and assemble the quilt top. Then I'll have a hand quilting project for a while.

I'm going to a quilting retreat this weekend. I'm taking the "posy

4-patch" blocks I made a year or two ago and will use them as the center for an "around the twist" top. Otherwise, I don't have anything going right now.

Julia > Just because I wanted to start an on topic thread, and just because I am

I'm working on blocks in a Fat 8th Swap. 8 of 12 blocks are completed. Behind those I have 3 projects but no patterns. 1) Green and Rose with a touch of lavender fabrics 2) Turquoise and brown fabrics. 3) 60 fat quarters I won from Carol Doak in a drawing. I also have at least half dozen basted or ready to baste and quilt. So much to do and so little time.

I have 2 projects to get binding on.... that will happen first. I need to get the binding ready so it'll be quick to add to the wedding quilt when I get it back from the long arm quilter (need to have the label ready too).

I really need to straighten my sewing room before I start anything new... but I have a baby quilt I want to start right away (baby is due in May).

The next project is a complicated wall hanging for DH's new office... in his new colors (Spartan green, black & white).

That should keep me busy for a while.

Thanks for the post -- it's always fun to see what everyone is busy working on!

Retreat starts a week from tomorrow (!) so I have been getting things ready to take. The current list is:

2007-2008 Carol Doak BOMs. I have some done, hope to finish the rest. Feb 2009 Carol Doak BOM I am keeping up with this current series Parts for the 5-6 graduaiton quilts which I need to have ready June 2010 Flower Garden BOM from several years ago I last worked on it at retreat two years ago or so and really would liike to get it done

Hmm! I should maybe get something sandwiched just in case I feel like quilting instead of piecing.

Mary

I am making a baby quilt for a friend (who is an excellent quilter!). It is beyond my usual colour range so far that I need a map >ggof the RCTQ bee?

I'm procrastinating. I have a machine appliquéed top all finished, and I'm doing my usual waffling about how to quilt it. I have another machine appliquéed top ready for quilting, too, but I'm waffling about two things for that one: how to quilt it (of course -- what else is new?) and whether I need to add more to it. :S

Oh my! You just made me realize how much I have put on my plate.

O.K. For Quilts of Valor: I have one quilt just needing to be bound and another to be quilted and bound. My "Ladies who Quilt" team has two completed tops and one that is nearly ready. All of these are for me to quilt. I hope that they are up to doing the binding themselves. We expect that there will be at least two more before these need to be sent off.

I am also working on two small quilts for the daughters of my friend Mike. The girls are three and five years old and, as I posted the other day, just lost their Daddy to cancer. I need to hug them. The tops are done and will soon be quilted.

That could be it for now :-)

Rita L. > Just because I wanted to start an on topic thread, and just because I am

Well, I have way too much on my plate, as usual.

1. I am working on a quilt for a class next month. Just decided on the pattern and bought the fabric yesterday. Blocks are all cut out, but not sashing or borders.

1. Hand work project is my Hoffman Challenge for this year. It is coming along well. Also contemplating a bag design for the Challenge.

2. Need to figure out what other classes I want to teach in the next couple/three months or so.

1. Need a quick project for the "Desperate Quilter's Corner" I teach once a month. Thinking about an adult bib project. Anyone have any other ideas????

That is the set of most currently being worked on. Also have things like my Dear Jane which I want to get finished with the quilting, a Quilted Diamonds project I want to get back to, and a second DJ to work on. Before I get too much farther with some of these I really do have to finish getting stuff sorted/organized and cleaned up. Sometime in the next few weeks I think we are going to get a PODS and do a temporary empty out of a room or so at a time. The front room has to have the carpet removed, and then I can set up the Lizzie so I can get the quilts quilted quicker.

Pati, in Phx

right now i'm trying to keep cool, fight headaches and not think about having to throw flowers at people on saturday, oh and if my isp will let this and the other 2 replys in the outbox actually send. oh well.

i'm working on a new block design. i thot i had it all sorted out in my head and on paper but then realized i missed one bit that 'i' can only work out if i cut and sew some fabric. i'm just not in the mood to do that now. it'll have to wait until next week after i recover from saturday. still it is an interesting concept to me so i hope it works. we'll see. j.

You are so productive! Last week I made 77 leaf blocks (from Judy Martin's design) using fall-colored FQs. Just because I had a lot of them for some reason. And they look ghastly. So it's going up on the design wall, in case there's a way to reorganize this into something I can tolerate.

Usually, scrappy is a good way to incorporate "uglies", but this one just isn't working, yet.

This morn>Just because I wanted to start an on topic thread, and just because I am

I just finished a baby quilt for a friend's first grandchild-to-be. 3 weeks start to finish and that's with hand quilting! I was really impressed with myself. I'm just finishing up quilting borders #1 and #2 of 5 total on a king-sized quilt. I have a queen sandwiched to start quilting but I think I need to adjust my pieced batting a bit before I really get moving on that. During today's laundry marathon I think I'm going to attempt teaching myself paper piecing. I've never done this before. I have a couple of books and between that and the internet I think I can get enough instruction - I hope! I don't really understand pp'ing at all so this will be a new challenge. I have enough scraps/leftovers to come up wtih something, I'm sure. I like to have some machine piecing projects to work on as well as the hand projects. Keeps me out of trouble, somewhat.

Kim in very windy NJ

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:34:45 -0600, Pat in Virginia wrote (in article ):

Currently basting my lone star to get it ready for quilting. And sorting through all the rest of my projects to see which ones I have enough "parts" for so I can take them to my retreat at the end of the month.

Maureen

Wow, where to start:

The angel quilt for my friend is all finished and ready to baste. That's what takes so long. I don't mind quilting or binding,but hate, hate, hate putting it together and pinning.

Another baby quilt to give away is ready to be put on fleece backing. :)

Fabric for a friend's grandchild's Winnie the Pooh quilt is gathered and ready. But he already has every Winnie the Pooh piece of bedding humanly possible. Grrrrrr.

The art quilt I've been working on is almost done. I just have to put the backing on. I make my art quilts directly on the batting, so putting the backing on for quilting is really easy. I am excited that I'm almost aready to post pics. I like it a lot. :)

I've got fabric washed and ironed and ready to cut out for "Carolina Comfort" that is on page 14 of the Nov. 2008 Quilters Magazine. It's easy, easy, easy. This quilt will probably become a regular in my stable of give away patterns.

Oh, I'm going to take a class on "Fantasy Landscapes" on the 20th and I'm excited about that.

Sunny

I just finished a baby quilt for my niece who's ready to pop any minute - in fact we have the girls in the family all predicting the day and weight. Also did a couple of receiving blankets in flannel and embroidered *her* name on them, which impressed everyone immensely (I love my sewing machine).

Sharon (N.B.)

I hope one of those books is one of Carol Doak's -- especially if it is one with the how-to-do-it CD.

Julia in MN

That's how I learned PPing

Mostly lately I've been working on Angel (bereavement) dresses for premies. An organization came to my guild a few months ago and made us aware of the need for them locally. I took the pattern to my church sewing group and we're doing them together. So far I've made 18 of them. Two women donated their wedding dresses to use for material. It was very hard to cut up someone's wedding dress, but the final product is beautiful. Some of the tiny dresses have appliques with seed pearls, some are ecru brocade, I even made a few from white cotton curtains that were donated. Those came out really cute. They had delicate lilac flowers embroidered on them so I fussy cut the flowers to be on the front of the dresses, and not much hemming to do because the curtains had a nice rolled edge on them.

I've also been making 30" x 30" quilts for this same group, and I made a quilted doggy blanket for a client's (I run a food pantry) granddaughter's new chihuahua puppy last week, so I guess that was quilting of sorts.

When the little dresses are done and delivered I plan to sandwich and quilt a few of the many tops that are waiting.

Denise