Finishing Line
Well, it’s the fourth quarter of the Finish-A-Long (btw, why is the ‘A’ pulled out in QAL and FAL? It always makes me think that only long things qualify. Anyway.) and I like goals as much as the next A-type. (Wait, maybe that’s what the A is for!)
So I thought I’d play-a-long. And everything on my list is stuff I’ve worked on this week, so hey, WIP two-fer!
1. Dragon quilt for my niece.
I’ve been sketching up dragons to figure out which ones I want to scan and clean up and turn into appliqué patterns. I’m not scared of this project at all given that it’s all new and I have no clear vision for it. Nope. Not me! (Spoiler alert: I’m lying.)
I also picked out some fabrics to narrow in on the color scheme, although I don’t know if these are the fabrics that will make the quilt.
2. Urban Lattice quilt for my dad.
Fabrics picked (bonus points if you noticed the blues and greens are the same between these two stacks)! I need to go find some 12×12″ paper, which I may have already gotten ages ago. I’m sad that the blocks aren’t more on the order of 8.5×11″ which is much more printer friendly.
3. Bento Box quilt for Eli (read: me!)
ALL THE BLOCKS ARE MADE. Hallllelujahhh!! This project has been going for a year and a half. Now I need to cut them all into quarters and mix em up and sew em together again and I’ll have a top! Also, to make this picture, I had to take 6 pictures and frankenstitch them together, since my design wall would only fit 6 blocks at a time. That’s going to be fun when it comes time to lay out the quarter pieces!
4. Rainbow/low-volume quilt for rainbowy goodness.
I started working on this and have a few blocks done. I’m at that stage where I know once I get more done and some variation in there I will like it better, but right now I really don’t like it, and it’s hard to convince myself to do more. It’d be SO much better with Oakshotts. *sigh*
5. Snake River quilt for April & Kerry.
Yah, that thing. I cut out all the pieces earlier this year and they continue to wallow in the brown paper bag in which I hid them. Perhaps they would thrive should I consider making them into full blocks. Let’s not be too hasty.
6. Dragonfly Broken Herringbone quilt for [currently unknown].
I should have the top back in a few days (it’s been on display at Hart’s, my first display “quilt”!), and now I should make it into a quilt without the scare quotes.
Hey that list isn’t so long, that should be easy peasy, right? One quilt every two weeks. No problem!
Linking to Leanne @ she can quilt’s FAL, and Lee @ Freshly Pieced’s WIP Wednesday.
Loving the herringbone quilt, the colors are superb, and all the white space really makes it pop.
Can’t wait to see how the Bento Box quilt works out too. The current blocks look great, and I can’t imagine having to cut them up! I’m doing my first King-size quilt atm, can relate to running out of room
Thanks Pippa! I’ll be honest, the original goal was to have more blocks, but I ran out of time. So I added the white to get it up to the size I wanted!
But I actually really like it this way!
I promised myself I wouldn’t get attached to the blocks, because I really like the chaotic nature of the cut up version. And I did okay, although there’s one block that may end up on the back because I really love it!
King sized! WOW! This is a queen and I’m scared I’ve taken on too much. A King is a feat for sure! I can’t wait to see it finished.
you’ve not got that much to do
It’s true. Which is why I’ve made zero progress on any of it since last Friday. >_>
I’m waging 3.5 out of 6.
Heyy that’s not too bad! I was thinking probably 2.5.
Great projects on the go there, Miss Anne. Definitely a colour palette running through a few projects. I can’t wait to see the dragon quilt
but maybe that’s my inner child coming out
E xx
I am seriously terrified of that dragon quilt. It’s so far out of my comfort zone, and I don’t have a clear vision for it all, which is really scary! Maybe if I just keep sketching dragons, I’ll figure it out? It could happen! lol
That Bento Box is going to be fun. I have a bunch of those sitting on a shelf. I participated in a swap about a year ago. It was the first time I’d done a swap and the first time I’d done Bento Boxes. Palms were sweating when it came time to cut those babies up. I still have to sew them back together.
Love dragons!! Can hardly wait to see what you come up with.
Oooh, what colors did you use for your bento box? I saw a bento box in progress that I was really excited about, but then they decided to stop at this stage. I was so disappointed that they didn’t do the cutting bit, that right then I decided I wouldn’t fall in love with my bento boxes and that I needed to cut them up. I admit, I am not exactly jumping towards the rotary, though!
That dragon quilt scares me! I have NO clue what I’m doing technically or design wise. Yikes!
I am anxious to see how you tackle the dragon quilt! Its going to be awesome!
I cannot believe how many projects you have going on! One thing I have learned, while you may not love a design during pieceing – you never know how it will turn out in the end!
I am…also anxious to see how I tackle the dragon quilt! lol What am I doinnngggg?!? Hopefully my niece will like whatever it ends up being!!
I really shouldn’t have this many projects going on. *gulp* I just kinda forgot about a few of them…conveniently.. when I took on more. Oops.
I have had quilts that I actively disliked until the binding was on and then I loved them. That’s such a scary feeling! I’m definitely no stranger to the ugly duckling phenomenon during piecing, but it’s really tough to talk myself into working on it more because you never KNOW. Maybe it really isn’t a swan, and it’s really a muscovy duck ( http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9py6IgNlFak/S_1fB2jb6nI/AAAAAAAAAUc/YbjPJFjh5Ag/s1600/DSCF5545.JPG ).
If I wait around for clarity and vision I’d never get a thing done – the dragon quilt will be fabulous. Congrats on getting to the end of the bento box, or at least to the next stage.
Well heaven knows I need to take a page from your book if I’m going to make any decent progress on this list!! But uncomffyyyyy!! I like my comfort box, don’t make me come out of it!! *whineeee*
I sure hope I make a lot of progress on stuff at the retreat!!
You could insert my name under the “for” in the herringbone quilt. And I can’t wait to see the dragons!
lol I’ll keep that in mind!
I’m SUPPOSED to keep it, but white is such a terrible color when you have as many animals as I do. That thing is going to look constantly grungy. We’ll see how I feel when it’s done, though. 
I also can’t wait to see the dragons. In fact, I can’t wait to see the dragon design! Any time now, brain!
LOVE LOVE your Bento Box quilt ~ gorgeous fabrics!!
Thank you so much! I’m starting to get excited to see how it looks once I cut all the boxes up and sew them back together again.
Wow! What a gorgeous selection of projects, i’d have a seriously hard time decided what to work on first!
Can’t wait to see your Bento after it’s been sliced and diced!
Thank you! I should work on the dragon quilt first because it’s the most complicated, but it’s also the most intimidating so I don’t want to work on it. lol Which of course has led to me not working on ANYTHING. Slicing and dicing may be what I do to break this impasse.
if you want to feel better about your list, go look at mine…can you say “thirty three”?!?!? and i’m in hawaii right now sewing NOTHING (: so…you can totally kick your list’s butt! ANY progress is good progress and you have some fun things to do! personally i’d do that Bento quilt first cuz 1-it’s awesome, & 2-it’s feeling neglected, & 3-you’ve been working on lots of things for others lately, & 4-then you can hug it and stare at it and love it for motivation while you work on the others (& sometimes hide under it when you are not)! i’m betting 4 out of 6 (:
Given my motivation levels towards the various projects and what has to get done, I’m going to bet 3 out of 6.
THIRTY THREE?!? That’s an impressive list!! I guess I have a lot more WIPs that I COULD add to the list, but I know I’m not touching most of them. lol Maybe you should have added “Enjoy a Hawaii vacation” to your list and then you’d be gettin’ it done! I’m jealous of your vacation btw.
That sounds amazing!
You’ll be happy to know that I followed your advice. All the bento box squares are cut up! I’m planning to take them to my guild retreat where the design wall is bigger, and make a nice quilt top out of them.
I think the A is pulled out so you know how to say it…because how would you say QL or FL? (but it’s just a guess)
I suppose that’s a fairly good point! I guess I never say the acronym though, I auto-expand it.
But QL makes me think of Quetzalcoatl which is a) weird, and b) really hard to spell, so maybe it’s good that there’s an A in there!
I love your fabric choices and colour schemes! It’s a bad photo, but here’s the dragon quilt I designed
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3-x3Ku8Kj9g/Tx1H25vw0WI/AAAAAAAABqw/rPfSmaTwDCU/s1600/IMG_2544.JPG
There it is!! I knew I’d seen a dragon quilt on one of the blogs I follow, but I couldn’t remember where! Thank you!
I love the way you did the applique on this!
This may be completely the wrong style/direction for you but I noticed someone else mentioned raw-edge appliqué could work for your dragons. When I saw you sketches in this post my brain pointed me at this kind of ticker-tape-raw-edge-appliqué-within-an-outline type quilt by Katie @ Katie’s Quilting Corner – http://katiesquiltingcorner.com/2013/07/finished-corgi-fairytale-quilt.html
If the pieces overlapped a little more in, say, the greens could it look a bit like scales… Just thinking out loud here, thought I’d throw it out there anyway but feel free to throw it right back with a “you’re dreaming crazy lady”.
Also just wanted to say hi and I really enjoy your blog as a fellow nerdy web-developer type (:
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Part of me keeps reminding myself that this is for a 9 year old who won’t really appreciate it if I put a lot of work into this, and it isn’t going to be treated particularly carefully. The other part of me wants to use glitter fabrics and put ALL the dragons on it. Troublesome.
That is SO COOL!!
Wow. I’m not sure I’m up for that with this project, but I will let it percolate.
I love the idea of ticker-taping scales though…. Such a cool idea!
Yay for fellow nerd-type!
There are a lot more out there than I expected! (y’know, more than 0) Thanks for saying hi and sharing that crazy cool link!
Love the colors of everything.
Thank you! Picking colors is my favorite part of the design process!