Welcome to “Work In Progress” Wednesday. My goal for May is to get this Garfield quilt done. It’s been a real exercise in repeating the mantra, “It doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful.” If I insist on it being perfect, it will never get finished. That doesn’t mean I’m intentionally being sloppy, just that I’m not going to go back and rip out an entire seam because the stitch lengths are marginally too long/too short/imperfect in some other way.

A sample of the stitches in question.

A shot of the border.

I’m having a lot of fun with this quilt, and I can’t wait to finish it and see what it looks like on the bed.

Projects in Progress:

Garfield Quilt:
Made from a childhood sheet of my husband’s. Added a border to make it adult-sized.
Blocks to handquilt: 4/42

Remaining Steps for Scrap Attack Quilt:
Make the quilt sandwich.
Attach everything.
Tie with thread. I picked up Pearl cotton in a size 5, and a curved needle.

Remaining Steps For Rainbow Quilt:
*Assemble the quilt sandwich
*Quilt
*Binding – wish me luck!

Future Projects:
*Turn the wedding sari from Farah into a quilt or wall hanging.
*Table runners: 0/12

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Welcome to “Work In Progress” Wednesday.

I got a nice surprise, and my scrap basket got a nice refill. Mom’s quilting group has been saving fabric scraps for me. Check this out. It’s like Christmas, only without the stress and pine tree.

Look at all those tiny pieces! Challenge accepted.

Here is the beginnings of a pet-sized quilt, including some of those very small scraps that were given to me. I don’t think it’s a bad start.

I like to use new fabrics, too, but I’ve really gotten to like working with more varieties of colors and patterns, in smaller quantities. My friend Lael has me salivating over Moda charm packs, now. She is a wonderfully wicked influence.

If you’re curious about what I look like when I’m working, here you go. My husband can be very sneaky with his camera. I usually hate photos of myself, but I don’t mind this one. Believe me when I say that’s high praise for the photographer. You can see his real photography here.

I’ve also been working on our garden and yard. Boise doesn’t have much of a spring. If the cool weather vegetables aren’t planted at the right time, they’ll roast or bolt before maturing. Plant too early, though, and the frost gets them. Hope I got it right. Here’s my in-progress garden bed.

I garden using a sheet composting method. Sprinkler lines run under the garden bed, so digging is out unless we want to pay to have the lines fixed. Renting is not my favorite, but our landlady is the best. We love her. The fact that I can have a garden at all is miraculous, and it’s not like digging is the only way to garden.

And last, but not least, I have made a ton of refillable catnip pouches for etsy. They’ve been an absolute blast to make.

I really need to crack down and get my two person-sized quilts done. I’m procrastinating them. Right now, they’re full of potential and promise, and obviously they’re going to be gorgeous when they’re done. Until they’re done. I’m seldom happy with a project after I’m done. So long as they remain incomplete, they’re perfect. How ridiculous is that? So. Yeah. That’s something I need to get over.

Projects in Progress
Scrappy quilt as part of the Scrap Attack Project.

Remaining Steps for Scrap Attack Quilt:
Make the quilt sandwich.
Attach everything.
Tie with thread. I picked up Pearl cotton in a size 5, and a curved needle.

Remaining Steps For Rainbow Quilt:
*Assemble the quilt sandwich
*Quilt
*Binding – wish me luck!

Future Projects:
*Turn the wedding sari from Farah into a quilt or wall hanging.
*Table runners: 0/12

Whooole lot of linking going on. Please don’t be shy when you comment – leave a link back to your blog and I’ll pay you a visit.