June has gotten off to a slow start as far as piecing goes. Last week I packed up the quilt I was working on in preparation to go to the quilt retreat and prepare for quilting the Birthday Quilt. We all know how far that got.
The blocks up on the wall are from my young quilting friend. She called tonight to see if she could come over Tuesday to make some blocks and I had to tell her no because I would be working. So we’ve made plans that she’ll come the weekend of the 22nd.
So, what’s in the stack? The bottom box really is a box of hanging folders. I’m 99.9% certain the project box is empty (I had Sew Scrappy in it). Then there is a bit of leftover batting. The plastic bag contains the pre-cut pieces for Nifty Thrift, possible border fabric and the book. I can’t believe I’ve had enough restraint to not work on it since I finished cutting it out back in early April.
The brown box contains a Nickles and Dimes, a Kansas Troubles quilt that my friend S started a while back. I told her I would work on it at the retreat since she’s not going to be able to go. The clear “box” (got to love zipper sheet bags) contains my Sew Scrappy.
The cat bed zipper pouch contains Candy Sunflower Seeds which needs 4-patches made with the correct fabric for one of the borders. The salad box contains the remaining spool blocks I need to make. Finally the zip bag on top contains the fabric for a quilt for a friend’s husband or grandson. I’m not sure who exactly it’s for. It’s a panel and now that I’ve found the right green fabric in my stash it should go together quickly .
I’m rather certain that I will not be able to get all of these quilt tops done during the retreat (noonish Thursday – noon Sunday) so I may leave Sew Scrappy behind since I’m considering taking my DWR to get a bit of hand quilting done.
Generally I take the day before a retreat off to run around, do laundry, pack, pickup last-minute items, etc. But this time, I have to work, so all of that has to be done over the next 3 evenings.
Hopefully next week’s Design Wall post will have a couple of tops on it. But in the meantime, hop over to Patchwork Times to see what other’s have on their design walls.
Quite a stack! Good idea to take along your DWR so you can have some handquilting time at Retreat! I’m counting the days until I get to go to mine. Gotta have Family time for Father’s Day first. My Retreat usually is over the same week-end but they changed it this year. YEA!