WIP Wednesday #5
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 11:31PM It's that time again! WIP Wednesday! Yay!
I like WIP Wednesday very much. See, I'm one of those really awful Type As. The kind who turn up half an hour early to everything so they have to sit in their car until it's actually time to go in.* The kind who, in their last semester of uni, wrote their assessments in their diary as being due a week earlier than they actually were just so it would be all over with faster.** I love accountability and I love having goals! So WIP Wednesday and I are BFFs.
All right! Let's get down and dirty:
New Projects:
None! I have enough going on! But I WANT to make a scrap quilt...more on that soon...and I started cutting out some brown and pink HSTs at SCQuilters the other day...so we shall see. But nothing concrete.
Ongoing Projects:
Sophie Makes Tracks. I had a great night at Pinky's the other night with her enormous cutting mat (we were both using it at the same time...thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's cutting mat, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's cutting mat...) and I got ALL my fat quarters cut into five claw's worth. Then I started on the petal fabric. I'm still trying to get those finished. Then I get to make them, all 81 claws!
It's going to be SO AWESOME.
Completed Projects:
I finished the 241 Tote! Oh my goodness. It's so handy! It's a great size for kicking around and it fits my (husband's) iPad perfectly!
I lined it with Sherbert Pips and whenever I dig out my wallet to get a fantastic mocha (thanks Joel) I smile. Best.
I also finished the Lolly Fields quilt top. It looks so sweet! I can't wait to piece the back. I have just been distracted with other things!
And, finally, I finished ------. That's right. I can't tell you because it is a SECRET. But! I will show you the super sweet fabric I used!
Bock bock bock! Chooks!
No Progress:
I took my sisters' quilts in to be machine quilted and, uh, the lady has already closed her books for the year! Either I hand-quilt them (urgh, summertime, nooooo) or I wait until January. That's it. I'm waiting until January. (Sorry, girls!)
Also no progress has been made on my (Un)Happy Campers quilt top...
...or my Downtown Dots quilt top.
I have been distracted by Sophie Makes Tracks. (Soooo...shiiiny...)
And, last but not least, I succumbed to the lure of buying a decent rotary cutter. I've been suffering through cheap ones but last week I had just HAD it, so I got an Olfa. And then I got rid of my insanely rubbish thread snips and got new orange ones today.
I love these things because they WORK. Good tools, am I right?
And I went sewing machine shopping, but I haven't committed to anything just yet. (Well, my heart has, but my wallet has other ideas.) So there you go!
I have a huge weekend coming up and tomorrow is my planning day...I hope this humidity and heat don't last! I'm melting here...melting...ahhh...
Enjoy WIP Wednesday!
*Having a baby has leveled the playing field somewhat. I'm still usually early-to-on-time. It's sickening.
**I may have actually in real life done this...except in one class I was done FOUR weeks ahead of everyone else. My beach tan that year? Was awesome.
Reader Comments (22)
The 241 tote is awesome, I so want to make one now! Everything is beautiful, really, great job!
Eeeee! Chicken fabric!