Sew What's New

I'm taking this afternoon to do a little inventory of my sewing room and see what I "need" to be working on. Besides the pile of quilt tops in a bin (I'll get to each one eventually), the active-stage projects I have are

• The Christmas tree top I finished last week. I need to quilt it which I plan to do today by machine.
• The black-and-white-cats blocks. I need a total of 28 and I have around 18 now. It would be nice to get three done today, which I can do from a single fat quarter.
• I have two block-of-the-month projects- Christmas Figs and the French General Celebration Sampler. Strictly speaking the French General is kit so I don't have to do it month by month but that's been working for me. I do my Christmas Figs blocks as soon as I get the fabric and then do a French General block and then I feel like I've accomplished something.

I've been working on Christmas Figs since the program started in July. I signed up for it with the Quilt Spot, my LQS, because I wanted to get to know people at the store and start to become part of their quilting community, but as soon as I signed up they announced they were closing. They do this and other BOM programs online and I get my little package in the mail but it's not the same and that aspect of it has been a little disappointing. But the quilt itself is fun. 

Joanna Figueroa's book is filled with traditional pieced and appliqued blocks and the end result will be a stunning quilt. You can get it lots of places. 

I have a Christmas-quilt-kit I want to make this year too but I might wait a little longer into the season to get started. What are you up to today?