I set the goal of completing my 2011 Project of Doom quilt by the end of July. Unfortunately, I made some bad choices that have set me back a bit – mainly the batting choice. I decided that quilting row-by-row would be the best way to go with quilting on my domestic machine. I took the quilt apart by rows and cut batting and backing for each row. The batting I chose had way too much loft and I am not at all happy with the way the quilting on the first row looks. I refuse to finish this quilt using this batting; I would just never be happy with it. So I need to unstitch all the quilting and start all over. Unstitching will take a while and I just don’t have the heart to start it yet. I may end up having to re-make a block or two – we’ll see.
Meanwhile, I have a couple of projects to take it’s place. A couple that I absolutely adore told me they are having a baby around the end of January. So I’m making a Baby PoD. Mom (a Hufflepuff) and Dad (a Ravenclaw) are also Potter fans. This quilt will be a wall-hanging in the nursery and a bed quilt when the baby has grown into a youth bed. A very generous quilter has offered to quilt it for me when I have it completed. I am overwhelmed by this and she will never know how much I apprecite it. Here’s the progress I’ve made so far:
The second project is the cleaning and organizing of my sewing/crafting room. I really want to be able to walk in there without tripping over something. So this one I am doing in stages:
(1) Clean out the closet to make room for embroidery notions, fabrics and stabilizers (about 70% done thanks to help from a neighbor).
(2) Organize quilting yardage by folding over comic book boards and put in the fabric cabinet (about 95% done).
3) Decide how to organize scraps, pre-cuts and wide backing fabric and put in the cabinet. (0% done)
4) Organize notions and accessories. I’ve cleaned out some drawers and need to decide how to arrange things so they will be convenient and, more importantly, I can find them.
I’ll check back in at the end of the month to let you know if I reached these goals.
