W.I.P. Wednesday

I don't have very many projects that are actively on the go at the moment.  I did some cleaning up and I have some languishing projects, and I think I'm going to list them all at the end of the post, just so I have a current record of what's going on - hopefully a few of them can get finished in the next few months.  I have a habit, like many of us do, of starting new things before old things get done!

The only one I'm actively working on right now......I took my very last precious scraps of Hometown, and some of my last Reunion, and using this tutorial I made 20 circles.  I don't even know how big they are, I'm estimating about 3.5" - 4"??  Haven't measured!  I then arranged them on a piece of Kona Bone, leaving lots of negative space, machine stitched them down, and am now quilting it.  

I'm doing this mostly to have something a little bigger to practice my free motion quilting on.  I worked on the quilting a LOT today and am still not done, and it's not a large quilt.  I'm quilting around the circles and not through them at all with the FMQ which is proving to be more challenging than I thought!!  It is leaving the circles nice and puffy, which I was hoping for, but sheesh - avoiding the circles when you're cruising along free motioning, let's just say I've used my seam ripper more than once today.  :)

Upcoming:

My good friend has asked me to make a quilt for her daughter's bed.  We're going to be doing Kate Conklin's Fussy Fairytales quilt, modifying it to make a twin size.  She ordered a full fat quarter bundle of 'Pretty Little Things' by Dena Fishbein for the main blocks, a whole array of really fun Kona fat quarters for the skinny frame borders, and Kona Snow for the background.  I can't wait to get started on this!!

Ongoing:

Feel free to skim this next section, or ignore it entirely - it's more for me than anything else, a run down of what I've started and not finished!

• Sparkle Punch cushion - decide on something for the backing and this will be done

• Brrr! Christmas quilt - nine 9-patch blocks finished, really cute, but no progress in a few months!

•  Granny Squares quilt - three jumbo granny squares finished using orange/grey/aqua charms

• Proverbial "Sleep" Quilt - no progress since I finished piecing the letters

•  Hexagons - 27" square piece finished - can't see myself making a whole quilt like this so would like to do something with it.  Chop them up, I don't know, turn them into something. 

That's enough, wouldn't you say??  What have you been up to?