NewFO August

For my August NewFO project I started a tumbler quilt.  I'd cut the pieces, way back in the earlier part of the year, but construction started in the second week of August.  I haven't made a lot of progress as other things have been cutting into my time.

I still don't have my design wall back, so will show some of the pieces laid out into short rows on my dining table so that you'll have an idea of how it will look.

Sets of twosies laid out just to get an idea, this of course will not be their final placement.

I think I'll head over to Barbara's Cat Patches and take a peak at what others have started in August.  Then I'll have to consider what to start for September, and does anyone else think this year is passing by way too fast?  I sure do think that it is.

June NewFO Update

Technically, I suppose I started two NewFOs in June, though neither were assigned specific project numbers.  Both are foundations with either strings or crumbs. The first, I wrote about before, right here.

String Quilt

 The status of the string quilt has not changed from what is shown in the photo above other than being removed from the design wall and placed in the stash closet.  I  like the strings, and it will eventually be finished once I decide how I want to actually set them, whether with sashing or something else.

The second, I also wrote briefly of here.  This is how they looked then:

And this is how they look now:

They are only laid out on some muslin on my ironing board to better distinguish the very busy blocks.  They're a mish-mash of whatever shape & size was grabbed.  They measure 4.5" raw cut, so not huge.  You can see that I used some very tiny pieces in them, perhaps too tiny.  I've not decided what I'll do with them, however, for me, I spent way too much time on something that just isn't that appealing to me, so they may sit in the closet for quite awhile.  Or, as I may have previously mentioned, they'll be sewn together for a couple of cat mats.

Cat Patches is showing us what other NewFos are popping up around town the globe, so make sure you check those out.  Barbara's giving away a needle nanny in a draw later in July - a cute little bird - for those who link up with their June NewFO.  

My July NewFOs (yes, plural) promise to be far more interesting as I'll be working on them while at quilt camp near Sisters, OR in less than two weeks :) and I'm really looking forward to it.  Hopefully I'll remember to take photos, lol!

NewFO

Well, it seems I didn't accomplish what I'd planned to on my May NewFO.  back on May 1 I had made this statement, 

   "I also converted some stash scraps, and anything under a 1/4 yard of fabric, to 3" squares.  More on those with my NewFO report at the end of May."
 
when linking up to Cat Patches (go see what others have started) because I'd planned to turn those 3" squares into a Pyramids quilt and I got as far as cutting out somewhere around 2400 squares, assigning a project number (#040), but put all parts away into a bin and side-tracked myself on something else.  Ok, probably many something elses including some time working on genealogy - I'm like that, I need to break between my interests now and then as well as pay attention to what's going on in life and that included both Nick and I getting sick, and me trying to juggle trying to get Nick healthy enough to return to school and take his finals after missing the first two days of finals, with the teachers' availability as they already had plans once finals and normal 'make-up' times were scheduled.  It's been busy.

So all that to say that May's NewFO is project #040 and being referred to as "Pyramids" for now, and amounts to nothing more than this bin full of 3" squares.  And ok, I'll say it, I'm already getting started on June's NewFO.....whistles off to somewhere else.....

#040 May NewFO bin holding 2400+ 3" squares and the 60 degree triangle rulers and my project sheet.

Get It Done

I hadn't posted my April Get It Done list as I really didn't make the list until mid-month.  A-ha! Moment: Maybe I should add each following month as a to-do item on the previous month's Get It Done list and that way it'd be ready!

Here's what ended up on April's list, shhhh I had most of the items done before I put the list together, but it was still in April, LOL :

For April 2013

•  Convert some stash scraps to bow tie sets DONE
•  Convert some stash scraps to spool sets DONE (sufficiently for now)
•  Convert some stash scraps to tumbler pieces DONE (sufficiently for now)
•  Finish O Christmas Tree to flimsy DONE

I also converted some stash scraps, and anything under a 1/4 yard of fabric, to 3" squares.  More on those with my NewFO report at the end of May.



For May 2013

•  Complete 3 large blocks on NewFO from April project #039
•  Begin May NewFO, 3" squares already cut
•  Practice free-motion quilting
•  Put borders on projects #16a, #16b aka the "bricks" UFOs

Linking to Patchwork Times to 'stay accountable', if only in my own mind, hehe.