Makin’ A List . . .

Making a list of my current quilting projects in hopes it will break my inertia and get me motivated to do more than just sit on my b*tt working on EPP (English paper piecing) projects in front of the teevee every night. 

I want to make Gary and Shelly a housewarming quilt; escrow closes May 7-ish. Have the black and white fabrics but can’t decide on a pattern. . . 

Signature quilt from Donovan’s baby shower. He’s here, this needs to get done soon. Signed blocks will be the small snowballs; large snowballs will alternate the raccoon and hedgehog prints; dark blue is for the block corners and the binding. Thinking about throwing some orange in there to spice things up.

Bought Harvest Grunge fabric to make hubby a quilt. He picked the colors and likes this design.

Although they are hot hot HOT in the quilting world, I’ve never cared one way or another about Liberty of London fabrics. Until now. I spotted this octopus print at the Camarillo Quilters’ show and was all MUST HAVE IT NOW. Octopi will be the big blocks; other three fabrics will make up the pinwheels. 

I’ve joined a quilting guild in Santa Barbara; at my first meeting, I won a raffle prize and at my second, I was given this 10x6” container stuffed with 2.5” squares. They will eventually become two (three?) quilts - a traditional Grandmother’s Flower Garden that I’ve already started; and a child’s quilt using the novelty prints. I also separated out the 30’s reproduction fabrics and may do a different EPP quilt with those . . . 

I love this octopus chart. For the ‘water’ (white squares), I’m planning to use the teal fabric, working the colors from dark at the bottom to light at the top. My initial plan was to use the gradient orange in the second fabric for the octopus. Still not sure about that. Wish I could find something like the teal in orange or red . . .

The top quarter is almost done on this one - it’s my favorite and I work on it most often. I’d be a lot further along but I ripped out all the white hexies because they were too “stark”. The replacement fabric has a hint of blue running through it. Much nicer. (And probably nobody but me would notice the difference.)