WIP Wednesday

Like a lot of other bloggers, I'll share my WIPs (works in progress) on Wednesdays.  It's a good way to remind myself to keep working on some things and for you to see what I'm working on, too.

Oh, boy.  There's a list for sure!

Update: I just checked the mail.  My friend Karen's husband wrote a book and it just arrived!  I'm really looking forward to reading it.  Somehow I need to figure out how to read this book and get all my WIPs done!

Aww. :)

This stuff:

1) My Medallion quilt from the Handstitched Class I took this past summer from Rachel at Stitched in Color.  The class involved learning lots of handstitching skills and this quilt was the big project.  I'm slowly working on hand quilting the whole thing, which is kind of fun to do sitting in front of a movie.  She'll be offering the class again I think the beginning of the year as well as a class on sewing curved pieces that I'm really considering because I loved the Handstiched class and I have yet to tackle sewing a curve.

2)  A baby quilt that I plan to try to sell at the craft fair.  This is just the top, but it's actually all quilted and just needs binding.

 3)  My Romans quilt.  I did a year long study on the book of Romans in the Bible and at some point thought "Hey, Romans has 16 chapters and you can make a quilt with 16 blocks!"  So I have one block all done and the rest are partway done.  Here's the one that's done.

So in the middle of the block is the word "grace".  Each block has different shades of yellow for the x and a different word, but the design is the same.  I chose what I considered to be kind of a theme word of each chapter of the book and will embroider it in the middle.  I'm excited about this quilt, although the piecing around the block is kind of tedious.

4)  Heather Ross stargazing quilt.  I love Heather Ross fabrics, so one time I bought kind of a scrap pack of various pieces.  It was enough to make something.  I have Modern Blocks: 99 Quilt Blocks and I loved the stargazing block.  Yay, wonky stars!  So I have one block of this done.

5)  Wasp bag.  I made one of these for my sister last year I think and have all the pieces cut out to make another.  I just haven't yet.

6)  I have these squares that I embroidered and I think are really cute, but I'm not sure exactly what I'll do with them.  I was considering putting a scrappy patchwork border on each one and framing them, but I don't have frames the right size and I don't want to go buy some.  My friend Crystal suggested pillow or little wall quilts and that's probably what I'll do.  Any other suggestions?

7) Stuff made from flannel.  JoAnn's was having a sale on flannel at $3/yd and there were some pretty cute prints, so I got some thinking of making hand warmers and cold/warm packs.  I made some last winter and it was so nice to pop those hand warmers in the microwave before taking my son to school.  Both of us had toasty warm hands during our four block walk.  Anyway, my son saw some of the prints and really liked them, so now I'll at least be making a new pair of pajama pants for him.  He picked the dinosaurs.

Hmm...It might be hard to see those.  The top left one has cute walruses with scarves and hats, then going clockwise, snowmen, roaring dinosaurs attacking a city in a really cute way, cameras (I really like this one.), some circle-y design, and one that looks like city skyscrapers.

8) Maybe some button hair clips?  Like this.

9 and onward...more journal covers, some drawstring bags, a holiday exchange item for the next Des Moines Modern Quilt Guild meeting, some other stuff for the craft fair that may also be Christmas presents, and whatever else I start doing.  I shouldn't start anything else.  Sometimes you feel like doing something that's not on your to do list though.  Oh, one other thing I'm wanting to do for some nephews and nieces and probably my son for Christmas is this scavenger hunt set.  Scavenger hunts are fun.

I also have some books to read.

The one on the left is almost done.  It is an autobiography of a woman who became a Christian.  I've read enough of it to be able to recommend reading it.  It is interesting and the cover of the book is really soft. :)  The middle book is for my neighborhood book club and I only just started it last night.  I think our meeting will be maybe next week.  The one on the right was recommended by my friend Amy and I've heard others say good things about it, too so I'll check it out.

Okay, I have a lot to do!  I'd better get to it!