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Progress in the Works
Jan. 7th, 2020 10:52 amWith the Great Unpacking comes examination of stuff I have. Fabric gets washed, examined, and sorted. Things get categorized. Works in progress get judged. And boy are there works in progress. A short list, in order of likely finishes:
1) Bears for charity: hate em, but by god I'm getting em out of my sewing room. Faces are on, I'm nearly done stitching, then it's just clip, flip, and stuff, and send off with a ribbon. I can certainly donate some ribbon and juvenile fabric to go with em.
2) Needlebooks: piece the insides, sandwich, quilt, flip, cut and add pages. No big deal, and I need these suckers done by the next guild meeting.
3) Dwarf quilt: still needs a dwarf, a hobbit, and a wizard. Gloin's cloak needs redoing with a less glaringly white cloth. The blocks need to be picked clean of paper, trimmed, and adjusted for equal width across the quilt. Gotta interface and add the gold road, maybe add borders, hunt down batting, sandwich, quilt, bind, and add hanging sleeve and rod. I'm very stoked about this project.
4) Laundry hamper: I still need it, but I'm scared of buttonholes. I'm gonna have to use the buttonhole function on Otto for the very first time. I got the white velcro for it, at least! I also have more canvas now, so even if I fuck up the cutting again, I'm safe.
5) Blue and orange hexagons: I'm having a great time. Four nights of sewing turned 48 hexagons into a 10 by 10 inch block (it's hard to measure hexagons so I'm being conservative here). That is not fast at all, but also it's adding up. Sooner or later it will be something.
Other stuff: eh. Who knows. Might get around to it. A lot of it is really dependent on stash - if I don't have the material or equipment for something, it lingers on the backburner forever and I eventually get enthusiastic about a different project. I currently have in the tub some cat mats that just need quilting, some scattered blocks for a Homestuck quilt I started for a friend forever ago, some leftover blocks from a quilt for me, a quilt for me that needs quilting but the curvy quilting kills my tendons, paper pieced wolves, some goldfish platform shoes that need new plastic tops for their compartments, a pillow I might or might not turn into a wall quilt, and a scavenged old block that needs cleaning and then it might become a pillow.
That's just the stuff that physically exists right now. I have fabrics and stuff for plenty more projects, as well as patterns and vague plans for more. But hey, things are progressing. My little bulletin board has been quite good at making me think about all the stuff I have in the works.
1) Bears for charity: hate em, but by god I'm getting em out of my sewing room. Faces are on, I'm nearly done stitching, then it's just clip, flip, and stuff, and send off with a ribbon. I can certainly donate some ribbon and juvenile fabric to go with em.
2) Needlebooks: piece the insides, sandwich, quilt, flip, cut and add pages. No big deal, and I need these suckers done by the next guild meeting.
3) Dwarf quilt: still needs a dwarf, a hobbit, and a wizard. Gloin's cloak needs redoing with a less glaringly white cloth. The blocks need to be picked clean of paper, trimmed, and adjusted for equal width across the quilt. Gotta interface and add the gold road, maybe add borders, hunt down batting, sandwich, quilt, bind, and add hanging sleeve and rod. I'm very stoked about this project.
4) Laundry hamper: I still need it, but I'm scared of buttonholes. I'm gonna have to use the buttonhole function on Otto for the very first time. I got the white velcro for it, at least! I also have more canvas now, so even if I fuck up the cutting again, I'm safe.
5) Blue and orange hexagons: I'm having a great time. Four nights of sewing turned 48 hexagons into a 10 by 10 inch block (it's hard to measure hexagons so I'm being conservative here). That is not fast at all, but also it's adding up. Sooner or later it will be something.
Other stuff: eh. Who knows. Might get around to it. A lot of it is really dependent on stash - if I don't have the material or equipment for something, it lingers on the backburner forever and I eventually get enthusiastic about a different project. I currently have in the tub some cat mats that just need quilting, some scattered blocks for a Homestuck quilt I started for a friend forever ago, some leftover blocks from a quilt for me, a quilt for me that needs quilting but the curvy quilting kills my tendons, paper pieced wolves, some goldfish platform shoes that need new plastic tops for their compartments, a pillow I might or might not turn into a wall quilt, and a scavenged old block that needs cleaning and then it might become a pillow.
That's just the stuff that physically exists right now. I have fabrics and stuff for plenty more projects, as well as patterns and vague plans for more. But hey, things are progressing. My little bulletin board has been quite good at making me think about all the stuff I have in the works.
