Sew Sundays – January 7, 2018

Happy New Year!! The snow and cold make sewing Sundays guilt free!  They provide the purr-fect excuse to stay in and sew.

For 2018, I’m working on my PHD (projects half done).

My cousin, Gail Sheppard, has laid out a challenge and is awarding fellow quilters their PHD if they accomplish the specified goal of finishing at least 12 projects half done.  See her post linked below.

While I tried to work on no more than 2 projects at a time, just into my second quilty year  I already found myself overwhelmed with projects I want to do, some I need to do, and others just because.  I found that I actually had enough PHDs to qualify for this challenge…YIKES!!

Here is my PHD list (pictures below in order) and the progress since Gail laid out the challenge:

1.  Dresden quilt – started Aug 2016; blocks made, fabric purchased – no progress this period
2. Autumn leaves quilt – has a deadline; fabric purchased and pattern selected – no progress this period
3. Feathered star quilt – one block made Sep 2017 – no progress this period
4. Delectable Mountains quilt – flimsy done except for borders – borders done, ready to sandwich, need to buy backing
5. Little Girl quilt – has a deadline ; fabric purchased and pattern (this is next on my to do list ) – flimsy (and borders) done, ready to sandwich, need to buy backing
6. Christmas quilt #2 – blocks started – flimsy and borders done, ready to sandwich, need to buy backing
7. Christmas quilt #3 – fabric purchased, pattern pending – no progress this period
8. Winnie the Pooh baby quilt – sandwiched, ready to FMQ – FMQ in progress
9. Bibs baby quilt – sandwiched, ready to FMQ – no progress this period
10. Lewe the Ewe baby quilt – FMQ started – FMQ done, label ready to see on
11. Secret quilt – fabric purchased – no progress this period
12. Blues quilt – sandwiched, ready to FMQ – no progress this period

As I make progress I will post updated pictures but this is a picture of what I’ve been working on.

And, now only a few days into the new year I received word of a friend’s milestone birthday this year, which of course means I have to add another project on my TO DO list.  I’m thinking I might use the “Storm at Sea” pattern.  This project won’t count towards my PHD but no matter.

Good luck to my fellow PHD contenders!

..and to all, a good sew