In previous UFO and WIP posts I listed my unquilted pattern and teaching samples, and my other unquilted tops. That leaves projects that are still in the piecing stage for Part 3.
I really don't have too many partially pieced WIPs. I tend to get them to the finished flimsy stage and that's where they stall out. Some of the piecing projects are purposely kitted up to work on at retreats or social sewing. Before I left Missouri in 2020, I gave away a lot of orphan blocks and/or WIPs that I knew I'd never use.
The current WIP for social sewing is the Scrappy Pinterest Project. I only work on this one at social sewing, which is only two or three times a month now. All the components have been cut and twosies have been sewn. Now it's in the block assembly stage. There are light blocks and dark blocks, and I have 29 of 55 light blocks made and four of 44 dark blocks. Because I'm working on this in a busy social environment, I've occasionally sewn some components wrong, so my seam ripper has gotten a lot of action here.
The other current WIP is one I'm working on at home. It's the teal remake of the Black and Tan quilt I made last fall. I finally found the right fabrics for the rejected block from this post. This project started out with two goals: Use up some of the overabundant teal stash, and practice getting the value placement right. Why is it that every time I think I can just use up stash, I have to shop for more fabric? I ended up buying 5 new half-yard teal prints to get just the right ones to make this work.
Now that I have the fabrics figured out, making these blocks is like making Scrappy Celebration blocks: I can make one or two whenever I feel like it.
The rest of my current WIPs are kitted up for retreat in April. This Black + White + Brights project was laid out prior to my last retreat and just needs to be sewn together. Most of the bright colored squares are left over from 2012 or earlier, from one of the quilts in my blog header. Many of the black and white prints were gifted by Quilt Diva Julie several years ago.
Next is a project I started but decided to hold for retreat. The blocks are pieced, laid out, and numbered; they just need to be sewn into rows and finished. I have navy inner borders cut and packed up, too, and fabric set aside for the outer border. The block is a variation of this one, except the inner logs are the striped print.
The last WIP is also started and kitted up for retreat. Like the teal project above, this was an attempt to use up some of my green stash, especially my yellow-greens and olives. A few accent colors have been thrown into the mix. It's a variation on a postage stamp quilt except the squares finish at 1-1/2" instead of 1". I cut strips, sewed strata, cross-cut the strata, and laid out 64-patch blocks. With all seams pressed toward the dark fabric, the seams within the block will all nest. I have enough components for 36 blocks, one extra for a 5 x 7 block layout, 60 x 72". I have a narrow inner border and a wide outer border cut also.
That's it for my UFOs and WIPs. The only other items I found when I was counting them up were some orphan blocks, and the unused parts from Road Trip. I'm not counting them now and I don't feel like I have to do something with them. If the spirit moves me at some point in the future to get out the Road Trip stuff and decide what to do with it, I'll count it as a WIP then.
There is one more project I haven't mentioned, a collaborative project with my friend Cherie. She's coming to visit in February for Quilt Con, and we'll work on the project while she's here. It was started before Covid at the prompting of another friend, and all three of us worked on it together in Missouri, but now that we're scattered no progress has been made. The project is unique and it's an engineering and piecing challenge, as quilts go. I'm looking forward to working on it with Cherie.
All of this should keep me busy through April at least. After that I'll have to plan more new projects for July retreat.
Since none of these are finished, they definitely fall into the *Or Not* category at Alycia's Finished or Not Friday.
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