Unfinished projects

This year one of my goals is to finish as many of my works-in-progress as I can. Each of those bins pictured above contains at least one unfinished quilt. UGH! What a mess!

Not only is it a big mess in my storage room, but they are starting to loom large in my mind and beginning to cause me overwhelming guilt. Most importantly, all that fabric makes me feel like I can't buy more until these quilts are done. I love buying fabric(a completely obvious statement!). I always want more! But, I need to force myself to finish these projects before going crazy with more stuff.

Here's all the quilts in various stages of completion:

• two self-designed and as yet un-named patterns for the Oh Cherry! fabric
• three pinwheel quilts in the American Jane Snippets fabric
• one nine-patch from the quilt-along made from all my scrap fabrics
• one triple-Irish chain for John's baby quilt
• one blue & white in various fabrics
• two Christmas log-cabin quilts
• Underground Railroad quilt in blue, red and green
• one disappearing nine-patch in pastel colors
• one quilt from this quilt along, but I'll probably change the pattern
• one alphabet quilt
• one cream and red nine-patch

(That's a total of 15 quilts in progress)

I also have a lot of fabric purchased, but the quilts have not even been started. Here's just what I can remember off the top of my head:

• Yellow & blue fabric from April Cornel's Nature's notebook line by Moda
• Snippets fabric for this quilt -- a whirlygigle pattern
• Plaids for crazy nine-patch
• six-inch squares for an 'I Spy' quilt
• a purple medley of half-yards
• about 40 different pink fat quarters
• a black and white collection

(A total of 7 quilts with fabric purchased)

I've recalled all this from memory, and I'm sure I'm forgetting something. All told that's 22 quilts. UGH! If I finish one every two weeks I might be done by the end of the year -- wish me luck!

Summer Quilt-a-long progress

This quilt has been such a challenge for me! I'm finally making real progress. I tried laying out all my squares on white fabric just to see what it would look like. I'm starting to like it, but it's so different from my usual attempts it's a mental struggle to work on it. I've been distracted with a million projects, but I'm promising to finish this one by the end of September. Pinky promise!

Quilt-A-Long Number Two

Since I'm getting back in the sewing grove, I thought I'd try another quilt-a-long at the same time as the nine-patch. I'm using up stash fabric and it feels wonderful! I'm shocked at how much fabric I have. I thought I knew what was there, but more and more keeps appearing!

I haven't bought a single piece of fabric for the two quilt-a-longs, it was all in bins in my 'dirty room.' I'm so proud of myself restraint!

I'm a week behind in this quilt-a-long, but I'm catching up quickly. I finally chose all my fabrics. Now I need to cut the 2.5 inch strips and sew them together. Many of my fabrics are fat quarters, but I think I'll make long strips out of them so that it works better for piecing.

My Squares

I've been slowly working on the quilt-a-long to make my nine patch squares. We're supposed to have about 40, I only have 8. But, I've got fabric cut to make about 50 more, so the rest should fly when I get a chance to sew them among all my other projects. At first I was really hesitant about the many colors included in the quilt, the more I sew the blocks together, the more I like it.