WIP's and UFO's

Hi! 

What have you been up to lately? Any progress on WIP's or UFO's? New ideas?

The heat, rain and humidity this time of the year makes me unwell. I don't take this climate very well and I don't venture out unless I have to. Some days ago I made the 'mistake' by going to the Custom in Port Louis to pick up a parcel. It was the day before two public holidays and the motorway was packed, long lines at the Custom, and even crazy shoppers at the supermarket (as if there were NO days AFTER the public holidays)! :( Needless to say I was totally drained when I returned home! Note to self: never go to PL this time of the year if you don't have to!!!!

I've been busy sewing and proud to say I have a finished UFO! :) 

Available in my Etsy Shop

I've been working on this, that and everything. I bought some gorgeous poppy fabrics some years ago, but couldn't decide what to make. Now I came up with a few ideas and I had enough fabric for a TR, TT, a couple of mug rugs and a bed runner. 
Now to finish them all! :)

The bed runner was supposed to be a TR, but since I made the green/yellow border first, it turned out too wide for a TR, I think.... I'm quilting straight seams and it takes forever! LOL I have yet to decide on how to quilt the border, any suggestions? 

I've made - and finished! :) - another TR for my shop. I have had 'bad hair days', and I can add 'bad photo days' too! :( Most of the photos I took of this TR turned out horrible, even after editing I can't use them for my shop. I have to take new photos. UGH! 

What do you do when there's no I-net connection or the CPU doesn't want to cooperate? 

I made 6 new blocks for my PS Quilt! :) Now I'm running out of 2.5 inch squares from swaps! I have quite some greens, blues and yellows left only. To make more blocks I have to start using my own cut squares. High time doing so; too many boxes containing squares - to hubby's despair! He claims there's no space for him anymore! LOL 

2018: SERIOUS FABRIC DIET!!!!! 

Not going to buy fabric, batting, thread etc UNLESS I NEED IT!!! 

...and look what I've bought already!!!! 

Well, the first photo shows fabric I ordered last year but received this year, so that doesn't count, right?! :)  They are for the blue and white Irish Chain UFO. The 2nd and 3rd photos are the fabric I went to pick up at the Custom in PL. Well worth the sweat that day, wasn't it?! Aren't those fabric gorgeous? I just couldn't resist! 

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Updated UFO list per February 3, 2018 

#1 - Log Cabin Table Topper (orphan block)
#2 - Table Topper Purple Pansies - FINISHED! 
#3 - Wall Hanging Hawaii Dancing Girls
#4 - Christmas Place Mats - set of 4
#5 - PSQ - Squares and Pinwheels
#6 - PSQ - Scrappy Squares
#7 - Scrappy Irish Chain in Blue & White
#8 - Bonnie's 'Provence'
#9 - Sunbonnet Sue - NNC block swap
#10 - Lap Quilt in Red & White
#11 - Pat Sloan's Grandma's Kitchen
#12 - Scrappy Log Cabin
#13 - Got the Blues
#14 - Nifty Nurses
#15 - Scrappy Flannel Quilt
#16 - Scrappy Christmas Quilt
#17 - Lap Quilt
#18 - Scrappy Black & White
#19 - Scrappy 1 inch squares (sewn into quilt)
#20 - Bag

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Time to count UFO's!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018! 

Do you remember me??!! :) I can't believe I haven't done a blog post since end of April last year! Where did those months go? You may wonder why I haven't blogged for such a long time? With other tasks going on in my life, Etsy shop etc, I felt it became overwhelming to keep up with everything. 

Do you have any New Year's resolutions and do you stick to them?  I have given up on 'resolutions', they fail all the time! I'd rather call it 'to set goals'. 
That said, some of my goals for 2018 is to blog regularly and finish some of my UFO's that have accumulated over the last few years. I'm sure they multiply overnight!!! 

Yesterday I took stock of my UFO's. I was sure I had about 10 or so. How wrong is it possible to be?! I counted 20!!!! How on earth did that happen?!?! lol

#1 - Log Cabin Table Topper (orphan block)
#2 - Table Topper Purple Pansies
#3 - Wall Hanging Hawaii Dancing Girls
#4 - Christmas Place Mats set of 4
#5 - PSQ Squares and Pinwheels
#6 - PSQ Scrappy Squares
#7 - Scrappy Irish Chain in blue & white
#8 - Bonnie's 'Provence'
#9 - Sunbonnet Sue NNC block swap

#10 - Lap Quilt in red & white
#11 - Pat Sloan's Grandma's Kitchen
#12 - Scrappy Log Cabin
#13 - Got the Blues
#14 - Nifty Nurses 
#15 - Scrappy flannel quilt
#16 - Scrappy Christmas quilt
#17 - Lap quilt
#18 - Scrappy black & white

#19 - Scrappy 1 inch squares (sewn into quilt)
#20 - Bag

Phew! Now to get into action and actually get them done! 
At least some of them! :) 

HAPPY QUILTING! 

Granny Square Quilt UFO is FINISHED!

A BIG THANK YOU to Jane, Karen, Elzaan and Rosemary for your lovely comments on my previous post! 

In between smaller projects, I've been working on UFO's. I don't have many, but those I have are lap or bed quilts. 

A couple of weeks ago (yes I know, I'm slow in blogging!), I finished the Granny Square batik quilt! 

Yep! It's green too... and brown! :) For years I have tried to convince myself green is not my favorite color... I think I have been wrong all these years! It's very easy to love greens; look out of your window and we are (most of us) fortunate to be surrounded by greens in all shades. The love of nature, I believe it affects us somehow... 

This is the first time I made granny square blocks and I really love them. They are easy and fast to make and gives a quilt a nice look. 

I think the yellow squares brighten up the corners...

I found a beautiful brown and green leaves batik for the back. Even better; it was on sale! :)

In the washing machine it went after it was finished. I threw in 3 color sheets and they came out RED! I thought I had pre-washed all the batiks earlier, but it could have been one of the browns I missed... Love the crinkled look after it was washed! 

I have 3 more UFO's to finish, but right now I can't decide on which one to attack! :) 

HAVE A WONDERFUL (QUILTING) WEEKEND!