Wednesday, November 9, 2011

WIP Wednesday

At last, a post coming from the comfort of my own home! Internet access has been established, although I'm still working on adding Wifi. And to be perfectly honest, home isn't quite as comfortable as Starbucks has been, given that's it's been below 50 degrees outside and our baseboard heaters don't really keep it much warmer than that inside. Luckily, there are lots of quilts here to wrap up in! So on to the quilts themselves!

Finished: Disappearing Parisville


Ok, I actually finished this a week or so ago, but I haven't gotten to brag about a finished quilt on WIP Wed for awhile! I'm also really happy with this one, since it's a large full size and is currently living on my bed! It's not the first bed-size quilt that I've made, but it's the first that I've actually finished - there are in fact three WIP large quilts in various parts of the quilting stage! Now that it's so cold here, especially at night, I might have to make an effort to really finish some of them.

In Progress: Drunkard's Path Quilt Along

For my Drunkard's Path baby quilt I now have a top (blogged Monday) and as of today, the back:


It's not exactly what I had imagined, but it will do. I'm just glad it's finished; I must be out of practice or something, because I had to take apart and redo about half of these seams! I just kept sewing the wrong pieces together, and even made some cutting errors (one of my worst fears!) I think I just wasn't as focused as I could be because I'm not really interested in this quilt anymore; I need to finish it up so I can send it off and start something new!

Speaking of finishing projects, I made myself a little checklist to help keep me moving along.

It's fun to check things off, and helps me see where I need to put in my sewing time! Which brings me to...

New Projects: Could there be more things I want to do?
1. Brian's Christmas quilt: I have several yards each of Kona Bone and Schoolbus; I'm just trying to figure out how to deploy it. Ideally something like this, which I've been wanting to imitate forever; although I'm not certain, since I hate all the fabric waste the comes from cutting curves.
2. I have a yard each of seven different pink/yellow/gray fabrics that I bought almost a year ago, and finally decided to make a nice zig-zaggy quilt. I even sketched out a plan:

Alternating stripes will be Kona Medium Gray; there is probably even enough fabric for two quilts!

3. And finally, my vintage sheets collection has gotten awfully large; I think it's time for a new Superstar quilt! I put all of my prettiest, bright-colored sheets in a stack, and will have to refine the collection to eight:



One last thing - since I have at-home internet access now, I'll be starting up my empty little Etsy shop for real, hopefully next week. There will be fat quarters of all these lovely sheets there!

So now to link up and check out everybody else's progress!


WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced



21 comments:

  1. I love your Disappearing Parsiville! So totally awesome!

    Mary
    http://www.quiltgenius.com

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  2. Your finished quilt is amazing. What a lot of work!

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  3. Your quilt is wonderful, and I like your plans for the next ones.

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  4. I hate the waste that comes from cutting curves too, but if you place them close enough you should be able to accomplish it with very little waste at all! And I LOVE the kona school bus color, I think it will look good in that circle quilt! I think you should do it, especially since it's been on your quilty bucket list for some time now :)

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  5. your finished quilt & DP backing are lovely, sounds like you've got some great future quilts planned. And that pile of vintage sheets is fabulus, I'm sure it will make a lovely quilt :)

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  6. Parisville is stunning! And I love the vintage sheets!

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  7. I love your Parisville quilt! Love your checklist, too, I need to make one of those myself!

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  8. What fun projects! I hopped over to the drunkards path post and I am in love with that layout - very mod.

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  9. I`m a huge Parisville fan and have a quilt in Parisville on my bed too. Also love DP blocks having just completed a top for a baby quilt. Great makes!

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  10. The Parisville is just beautiful :)

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  11. zig zags are my favorite - can't wait to see how it comes along!

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  12. WTG on your tick list, I love ticking things off (wish I had a few more on my winter list!)

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  13. The checklist would be an awesome idea and great motivational tool - one glance and you can see what's been done and what's to do!

    And that Disappearing Parisville quilt is amazeballs!

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  14. Great idea on the checklist. I should make one and see how much I can get done.
    I want to sew each and every day. Right now I am out of thread except thread to use for church. And, I have no excuse for not working on a top I've started for church today.

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  15. Your disappearing parisville quilt looks amazing. I jumped over to check out your drunkards path (I am part of that QAL too) I love how you laid it out using just the two colors, and yes, Drunkard Path Baby quilt does sound bad. :)

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  16. So much to fun to celebrate a finish!! And you have a lot of fun WIP stuff too! I think a zig zag quilt will be fun and who can resist playing with vintage sheets! Enjoy!

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  17. I like the zig-zag idea. A sketch is such a great place to start. So many possibilities.

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  18. The Parisville quilt is incredible! And I like where you're going with the zig zag quilt. Thanks for linking up to WIP Wednesday. : )

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  19. Stunning Parisville quilt! And I love your checklist.

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  20. Love the back of your drunkard's path! So great! All that vintage sheet fabric looks so yummy!

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  21. What pretty sheets, I wish you well on your etsy shoppe!

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