Showing posts with label Sew What's New. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sew What's New. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

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?