Works in Progress Wednesday - May 2, 2012

Another productive week! Unfortunately, the Ottawa Senators got eliminated from the playoffs, as did the Ottawa 67s from the Junior A playoffs. We had some despondent members of the family here, but they seem to have rallied. The interest in the playoffs is still pretty high though so I may still get some extra quilting time. :)

New Projects: I joined my first bee and our kickoff is this month. The fabulous Katie from There and Back organized this fun Don't Worry {Bee} Happy gang. The talented Rebecca from Sew Festive is our Queen Bee this month and she requested this fun triangle log cabin. Aren't those fabrics yummy? It took me a week to gather my courage to cut into those fabrics -- I was so afraid of messing it up! Told myself to stop being a wuss on Monday and got to work. It's done! Phew! Fingers crossed, I hope she likes it. 

Completed Projects: 

Night Flowers (a.k.a. black modern mini) - Done! And all my modern minis are now hanging in my sewing room. Yay!

Colour My World Yellow challenge: So it went from this last week:

To this: 

I'm walking on sunshine, waaaa-oooh! 

Current Projects:

Modern Block Monday Sampler - This week was Four Acres by Solidia Hubbard. 

FMQQAYGQAL/QAYGFMQQAL - I'm working on the sashing and it's going well. 

Chop Suey - no progress.

Micah's Growth Chart - Pulled it off the on hold list and started quilting it. Again with the skipped stitches, broken threads and broken needles. Soooo frustrating! Thorough cleaning (twice), changed the needle three times (two embroidery and then a topstitch), rethreaded top and bottom, changed the tension, turned off the machine, walked away to cool off, came back and tried again. Still ran into some skipped stitches here and there but just went with it as it's just the first layer of quilting. Added to that frustration is that some of the flames that had been secured with repositionable 404 spray were coming off. In hindsight, I wish I'd used fusible web instead. I managed to secure the loose flames back on with a light layer of quilting. Hopefully this whole project will go better today. 'Cause really, other than this actually catching on fire, I'm not sure it could get worse.

Aaarrrggh!

On Hold/UFO Mash-up:

Collage Tree 

Wee Spy quilt

Stained Glass Lillies 

Asterisk Christmas Table Runner 

Red and Tan Bargello in the Round 2

Happy Villages

Converging Stars

10BX Leaves

Kingston quilt

Fibonacci's Not Random

Red and Cream Amish Wedding Ring

Spiral/Spring seta colour

Wedding quilt

Nine patch colourwash

WIP Wednesday Recap:

New projects: 1

Completed projects: 3

Current projects: 4

On Hold/UFO: 14

Bucket List: 40

I'm linking in to WIP Wednesday at The Needle and Thread Network and to W.i.P. Wednesday at Freshly Pieced. Thanks, wonderful women, for hosting such great parties!

Have a great Wednesday, everyone!