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Year of WIPs Challenge

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Terri | 4 comments

And we’re off! I did get brave and created a YouTube photo video.

Here’s what I settled on for stitching, along with the progress photo as of Sep 30. Click to see full photo.

Scarlet Letter – Gratitude

Mirabilia – Fairy Moon

Examplar Dames – And They Sinned

Carriage House Samplings – Houses of Hawk Run Hollow

Mirabilia – Garden Verses

Goode Huswife – Book of Spells

Blue Ribbon Designs – An Expression of Gratitude

Plum Street – Hurt Not the Earth

Scarlett House – Coverlet Candle Mat

Little House Needleworks – Needleworker

This was actually my plane project for last week’s trip since it’s on 30 ct.

Mill Hill – Log Cabin Quilt

This was my first project to work on. I finished 10 hours last night. Love how it’s turning out but ended up having to unstitch about 2 hours worth because of mixing up the blues. Blah!

For now I’ll focus on Houses of Hawk Run Hollow and stitch it every 4th project. I’ll be creating a tab at the top to track progress.

Now I need to figure out what I want to stitch on next!

My quilting buddies are returning starting this week and I’m looking forward to returning to sewing with them. I’ll decide on my quilt/sewing WIPs once I figure out how often I’ll be sewing.

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WIP Challenge 2016-2017

Posted on September 17, 2016 by Terri | 2 comments

I did something that has caused me to dig through this:

My BFF mentioned a few days ago that she was going to participate in a WIP Challenge, where you finished 12 or so WIPs. I didn’t fully understand how it would work since it was starting October 1, plus I have some huge WIPs and know I can’t stitch 12 of them in a year (on top of the sewing I want to get done) so I sort of filed it away in the back of my mind.

I was watching her latest flosstube and she brought it up again so I went hunting for more information and became intrigued. I think it’s completely doable! The gist is you stitch 10-15 WIPs by the end of December 2017. The boss lady of the challenge states that as long as they have 1 stitch in them come October 1, 2016, they’re WIPs.

I wanted to divide my 10 items by older WIPs and newer WIPs, so my list looks like this right now:

Scarlet Letter – Gratitude
Mirabilia – Fairy Moon
Examplar Dames – And They Sinned
Carriage House Samplings – Houses of Hawk Run Hollow
Goode Huswife – Book of Spells
Blue Ribbon Designs – Expressions of Gratitude
Plum Street – Hurt Not the Earth
Scarlett House – Coverlet Candle Mat
LHN – Needleworker
Mill Hill – Log Cabin

Houses of Hawk Run Hollow and And They Sinned are my two largest WIPs. I had already decided to go back to rotating through 4-5 projects at a time, and now I’m trying to decide if I want to go back to stitching in 10 hour increments on a design and then switching out or stitch for a week on something and switch out on Monday. Either way I intend to focus on Houses or ATS. So my weekly rotation may look like this:

Oct 1-2 Book of Spells
Oct 3-9 HOHRH
Oct 10-16 Needleworker
Oct 17-23 Expressions of Gratitude
Oct 24-30 Book of Spells
Oct 31-Nov 6 HOHRH
Nov 7-13 Coverlet Candle Mat
Nov 14-20 Gratitude
Nov 21-27 Fair Moon
Nov 28-Dec 4 And They Sinned
Dec 5-11 HOHRH
and so on until HOHRH is finished, then move ATS into that spot

Now that I have it written out this may be the better way to go. If I decide to do the time version it’ll be something like

10 hours HOHRH
10 hours Book of Spells
10 hours Needleworker
10 hours Expressions of Gratitude
10 hours HOHRH
10 hours Coverlet Mandle Mat
etc…..

We’ve been paired off with another member of the group and required to send monthly post cards as a way to encourage and get to know each other. I’m also excited about this as I’ve been sort of considering writing to someone once a month as a way to communicate.

Now I just need to figure in some quilting/sewing time and pull a couple of large WIPs and small WIPs and do my own quilting/sewing challenge during that time too.

And, I need to get this all down in my journal by September 30.

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Boy, oh boy, am I behind!

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Terri | Comments Off

I finished Rose Quaker last night and the first thought I had was I needed to get it ironed and post a photo to my blog. When I went to log on this morning imagine my surprise to see how long it’s been since I last posted! Yikes!

Time flies when you’re having fun, and I’ve been having all kinds of fun redoing my sewing room, working for Arizona Quilters Guild, working for COMICON, and stitching when I can.

I actually have two finishes to share today, since I thought I had posted when I finished Lizzie*Kate’s Unseen Things on February 8.

She’s headed to the framers in a couple of weeks.

I had planned on working on And They Sinned after Unseen Things, but I couldn’t find it! I started a #MirabiliaMonday on my facebook page and had planned on Fairy Moon since I’m almost finished with it. I couldn’t find it either! I knew they were together, though.

So I pulled Rose Quaker out instead of And They Sinned. I finished Rose Quaker last night. Here’s a craptastic photo since I still haven’t ironed it. 😀

I finished the painting in my sewing room and have started putting everything back in its – hopefully – forever place. And….I found the two missing stitching pieces. Woohoo! So now that Quaker Rose is finished And They Sinned is patiently waiting. I started it January 4, 2013, and here’s where I stopped in August 2013.

Monday’s dedicated to Mirabilia, and since I couldn’t find Fairy Moon, I pulled Garden Verses. Here’s where I am on her as of last Monday:

What else to share? Oh yeah, I finally ordered, and received, the bell pull hardware for the SamSarah Lagniappe design. No sewing has been going on so nothing to share there. I am anxious to get back to it even though I’ve really enjoyed all the stitching I’ve done while not working on other things.

I’ll try not to let it be so long before I post again 😉

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More Gratitude

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Terri | 2 comments

I ended up restitching what I frogged, plus more, on Gratitude yesterday. The magnifier did help, however, I frogged it out again. It just looks like awful knots because the fiber is so thick. I was ready to “frisbee” that project across the room after frogging it a second time! I immediately started working on Fairy Moon while we caught up on Arrow on the DVR and made great progress on it.

I had a nail appointment this morning and drove over to Attic afterward to get some new silks for Gratitude but Jean talked me into doing tent stitch with the silks I have instead of full crosses with new silks. Now I’m trying to decide if I want to stitch on Gratitude or Fairy Moon tonight.

I don’t know how much I’ll be blogging for the next week or so. My parents are leaving from Louisiana tomorrow morning and heading this way for a week. I have no idea what we’ll be doing while they’re here! 😆