I have finally finished all of the quilts for our local show, and I have laughed as I realized how many of my quilts have a finish date of January or February of show years!! I guess that I really do need a deadline!!
I am now starting to think about what to do next. I know that the next three months are going to be super busy and that I wont have a lot of large blocks of time but I do want to make sure that I have something planned for my “creative-20” minutes each day.
The problem is that there are just SOOOO many choices, including a number of UFO’s that came from my Mom!!
She left this quilt top…..
….which I dont particularly like, but I just realized that it might be a good place to practice some ruler work free-motion quilting!!
She also left several sets of block that I am not sure I EVER want to finish…..
Since I couldn’t come to a decision about where to start, I decided to start working on cutting and organizing the scraps that have accumulated in the last couple of years. Today I worked on them for 2 hours while listening to a webinar about Depreciation Tax Laws…..
I thought that having my hands on fabric would make the webinar more enjoyable….Not So Much!! Anyway, it will be good to have all of the scraps cut and stored in an orderly manner and ready to use at a moment’s notice.
One of the things that I also wanted to do was to give my sewing machine a good clean. To that end, I purchased a vaccuum cleaner attachment that would allow me to get down and dirty with my machine…..
It seemed to have made a big difference.
Finally, the chairman of our Guild’s charity bee gifted me two quilt tops that I can use to practice my machine quilting. I love this quilt……
…..and am looking forward to quilting it, but think that I will do this other one first……
These two will give me some good practice time!!
Finally, I have also realized that I am missing having something to work on at night so I am playing with some hand applique….but more about that in a future post.
So for now, I am enjoying doing a few small things and looking forward to creative times to come!!!
One thought on “What’s next…..”
Looks like you have plenty to choose from, but the hard part is finding something that just hits you with enthusiasm. Good idea to cut up fabric instead while you think about it.