Low Motivation Week

 Hi all -

Well, this has been a low motivation week for me. Since I got caught up on Jungle Magnolia and now have to wait for the next fabric shipment, I found myself struggling to decide what I wanted to work on. Luckily, this was the week when all of my all of my quilt guild's monthly small groups met so I did get make some progress on my projects. We did end up getting some good snow last week so I ended up missing my Quilts of Valor (QOV) group meeting on Thursday. But I made it to the English Paper Piecing (EPP) meeting on Friday and the Block of the Month (BOM) meeting yesterday. It was really good to see everyone at both meetings!

At the EPP meeting, I made some progress on my La Passacaglia quilt designed by Willyne Hammerstein.

La Passacaglia - Rosette 2

There's a LONG way to go on this project! But I'm loving it more and more with each added round! At the meeting we talk about a lot of things. I was talking about the bags I like to make. When I got home, I had the urge to make a bag for each of the people in our group. I keep wavering on whether I want to do this because it's a lot of bags, but I did get started on some bags this weekend. I enjoyed making the Twice As Nice Pouch designed by Aneela Hoey for my friend for her birthday, so I decided to use this pattern. The first bag will probably be for the host of our group who loves the color green.

Twice As Nice Pouch

Twice As Nice Pouch - Inside

I probably need to continue this venture since I cut out a bunch of pieces of the vinyl, interfacing and fleece. But I would have to make something like 10 bags, so we'll see how it goes.....

Since I'm caught up on Jungle Magnolia designed by Judy Niemeyer, at the BOM meeting I decided to do some preparation for the upcoming months of the project. Although we receive the fabric in a packet each month, we already have the entire pattern, including all of the papers used each month. So I decided to start preparing the papers for future months at the meeting, which saved me from having to schlep my sewing machine to town. There's a lot of work just in the preparing of the papers, so I'm glad to get a start on this! Next month will be a really simple month for our colorway of the quilt. We will just be sewing 16 seams, making 8 each of two mirror-image units:

Jungle Magnolia - Chapter E Papers

(The other colorways will be piecing a checkerboard for the larger pieces next month.) After that, things will get more complicated! Here are the prepared papers for the next month:

Jungle Magnolia - Chapter D Papers

And I just got a small start on the next month's papers:

Jungle Magnolia - Beginning Chapter C Papers

I still have two and a half months of papers to prepare, so I will continue this task at our meeting next month. I'll be really happy to have these already ready when the fabric arrives!

I did continue to make progress on my Peach Sorbet Throw designed by Janine Myska. 

Peach Sorbet Throw

I keep track of my weekly progress on this blanket by moving a stitch marker to my current position after taking each picture.

Peach Sorbet Throw - Weekly Progress

I'm getting closer and closer to finishing this project! I'm on repeat 27 of 36, so the end is in sight. Then I'll just have to add the border.

Finally, I have a couple more blocks for my inset circles quilt.

Inset Circles Blocks

This makes 17 of the 30 planned blocks finished.

I'm still deciding what I'll work on this week. I have the fabric picked out for the next Twice As Nice Pouch so that should be finished. And, hopefully, more of these. But I'd also like to make progress on the circles quilt so I can put away that ruler. And there's so many other things I want to do! I just know that I'm lucky to have so many things I can do!

Nancy