Delusions of grandeur

Do you ever have "delusions of grandeur"?


(OK, just to make it interesting, I'll give a purse out of my pre-made stash to anyone who can name the movie I just quoted.)

I've been home, sick, lying on my couch for three days. In those three days, I've decided that I can do amazing things. Now, keep in mind, I haven't moved a muscle. I've not picked up a hammer and nail or any such thing. I've just been reading the best blog I've ever read -- Knock Off Wood.


I BELIEVE!


I think I'm going to make these for the entry way:
And these for the basement:

And this bed for my daughter's room:

with this on the side:
And this for me and my sewing room:

And, maybe if I have some time left I'll whip up this dining room table:Did I mention that I'm the kid who cut the top of her thumb off in shop class? Watch out world! Here I come!

What's in store...

Now that I finished the Whirlygiggle quilt, I can start on new projects to use up my fabric stash! I can't wait to see how these babies turn out!

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!