I’m moving to Australia in a month, and my main concern is around crafts at the moment. I guess I just need something else to fixate upon, now that passport applications, check-ups, dentist appointments, and optometrist appointments are complete. I’m trying to get all my projects to whatever place they need to be before we leave, and I’m just about to the point where the constant reviewing of my plans in my head is starting to cause headaches, so I’m going to write it all down and let that list live somewhere else.
Current Projects:
- Junebug’s Star Spangled Diamonds Quilt
- Baby Girl Quilt #1: Meadow
- Monkeyboy’s Rocket Age Quilt
- Friendship Braid Quilt
- Storybook Hexagon Label
- Baby Girl Quilt #2: Pink
- Baby Boy Quilt: Cowboy
- Aspen Frost Runner
Priorities:
- Storybook Hexagon Label–I always space the quilt label. Do this immediately before I decide it’s not important anymore. (I’m a historian at heart, and think there is significant historical importance in regards to labeling quilts.) The main hold-up on this is buying a fabric pen for writing the information on the label.
- Baby Quilts–all three need to be completed and delivered before we leave for Australia.
- Rocket Age full blocks need to be assembled before leaving, so I can applique the hexie blossoms to them while we’re away.
- IF the above are done, I can finish the Braid Quilt before we leave. It’s so close to being done, but it’s a random side project that I started working on because I was waiting for supplies for the other quilts.
- The Star Spangled Quilt will be pieced completely by hand, and it’s portable–work on this while at softball games, park day, etc. It’s going to take a loooong time to complete, don’t worry about progress at this moment.
- Aspen Frost–this can wait until we come home from Australia.
Schedule:
June 18-21
- Piece Meadow top
- Bind Penguin’s blankie
- Purchase: Fabric Pen, Meadow backing, Meadow batting, thread, binding fabrics for all three baby quilts, supplementary gift items to include with quilts
- Pre-wash fabrics
June 23-28
- Piece Meadow backing
- Create quilt labels for Storybook, Meadow, Pink, Cowboy.
- Applique label to Storybook, Pink & Cowboy; machine stitch label to Meadow
- Finish quilting Pink
June 30-July 5
- Quilt Meadow
- Create binding for all three baby quilts
- Purchase gift wrapping supplies for baby quilts
July 7-12
- Bind baby quilts
- Wrap quilts & ship
- Cut foundation papers for Rocket Age quilt (40)
- Start piecing Rocket Age blocks
July 14-19
- Finish piecing Rocket Age blocks, pack for trip.
- Finish piecing Braid strips. Pack for storage. Will have to finish when we return.
OK. It just feels better to write it down and look at everything in a realistic time frame. Everything was going fine until the baby quilts popped up onto the radar. (All an issue due to my own misinterpretations of information.) And now that I’ve posted my intentions, I can also check back in with progress updates, which are fun for me. Happy Summer of Sewing!
That Crafty Cara 