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The time has come to see what I've managed to do and link up with the amazing Sarah at FairyFace Designs. I made a good dent in my Winter Stitching List.


Here's what I got finished:


Drunkard's Path QAL, Dead Simple QAL, Two Terrain Lattice Quilts for my nieces, the secret quilt AKA the Johnny Cash quilt for my husband, Baby Boy quilt 'Diagonal Stripes HST quilt', and the 'Does Not Compute' quilt (now much loved by my son!)

I checked other things off my list too, all the little makes I wanted to do for Christmas, practicing fmq (a bit!) and I've kept up to date with the Blogger's BOM (ok I haven't done April's yet but it's not over!!). Here's how that's looking so far:


Here's what I've not done and the fabric piles still waiting to be cut up...

From left to right: Love of Rain quilt, Owl quilt and finally the vintage inspired/modern quilt for me - I'll be using the Across the Sea QAL pattern for these retro lovelies :)

I have 4 quilts I have to finish (*ahem* - and start) before I can even get to cutting these ones out. But I'll get there eventually and hopefully you won't have to see these piles again!!

I'm really pleased with the progress I made and huge thanks to Sarah for the great links and motivation!
Those who follow will know that I've made more quilts during this time and plenty of other little bits as well so I think I did pretty well considering the distractions!! Seriously there are too many quilts to make and never enough time ;)


p.s. If you're into that sort of thing I've added some social media buttons to my sidebar on the right - they're the black icons! So if you want to follow, like, add, stalk me or whatever, have a click. Fair warning though I rarely have time to update them other than with what's going on here but you may like to have a nosey and befriend me in other web worlds! :) I've also made a new blog button for you to grab

I'm joining in with the Winter Stitching and had to check back to see what was on my list!!


Here's my progress:
Dead Simple Quilt - done




Drunkard's Path QAL - done




One baby quilt, which became Diagonal Stripe HST Quilt - done




2 quilts for my nieces, which became the Terrain Lattice Quilt and Terrain Lattice Quilt 2.0 - done





Does Not Compute Quilt - done





I've also managed to do a whole bunch of other makes that you can see here!

Blogger's BOM, keep up to date - done


Owl quilt - I have the fabric but it is creeping down the list of priorities so I'm not sure if this will get done this winter:


Secret Quilt - I've done nothing on this one and I'm not sure whether to abandon it.

Do more fmq practice and try to do some on actual quilts - done. I didn't remember I'd even put this on the list and it seems very serendipitous that that's what I'm currently working on!!

Love of Rain Quilt - the fabric is sitting staring at me:


Vintage Inspired/Modern Quilt - I am going to do the Across the Sea Quilt Along pattern for this. I have yummy repro fabric ready and am planning on hand quilting it. This quilt will be ALL MINE! I will start work on it soon though I hope. I'm wondering if I want to make it so much that I'm putting it off because I'm worried it won't be as good as it is in my head. Do you know what I mean?



So all in all I'm doing OK but I still have some really big projects to do...

I'm still a bit rubbish at not getting distracted and need to focus to finish something . I also have periods of doubting myself, which I hate because it makes me feel so useless and that's not really me. I'm battling through it though and my husband is wonderfully reassuring, always telling me just to do it and reminding me that most of what I want to do will only be living at our house and how will I get better if I don't keep working at it. I love that attitude. So I will continue to challenge myself and work at getting better, whilst having fun and sewing with abandon :)

I'm linking up to T.T.T. because it's Thursday!!