quilts for Q1 2021

Man, what a year!

WIPS for 2021
1. The Quilt Is Lava
2. Bard of Scrappy
3. Red-purple log cabin
4. Art Theory Shoulderbag for Mum
5. Break Free or Build Upon?

There are almost certainly more of them. Actually doing them, on the other hand? That's difficult.

NEW WORK

Interconnected
Intended for the Sydney Quilt Show 2020, but going to be on the menu for 2021. Needs designing cutting, piecing, quilting.

A Plaid-ish quilt
Plaid-ish quilt looks good, hopefully in Cotton+Steel. Have the pieces sitting aside, need to cut and arrange.

A Power of Three quilt.
I was thinking maybe from Heather Ross Mendocino, since I still have a lot of that and want to use up the scraps where possible, and this has the option for squares as small as 1.5"

Another Nameless Tula Neptune quilt
Perhaps? Same style and everything? I still have fabric left over from that.

Any Scrappy
I have so many scraps, just need to use them. (I say this every year.)

Missing links and pattern pieces...

One of the most frustrating things about the internet is the issue of missing links. Websites come and websites go, but the links to them remain the same. So a link that worked five years ago doesn't work anymore, because the site is no longer there and neither are the downloads.

I've been looking for New York Beauty blocks, and they're surprisingly hard to find after the original free 10 ones. I was hoping to find more free NYB blocks, but these days the blocks are either sold or missing.

Oh well. It's not like I'm going to make a NYB quilt anytime soon. Way too many other quilts to make...assuming their links still work.

My most recent sewing work has been the making of a boxy pouch for my SIL-to-be for Christmas. But before that there was a Secret Santa swap, and a banner for the US Inauguration next year.

Pretty Tote Bag

The bag is unhelpfully called 'Pretty Tote Bag' and is free, but the site is entirely in Korean, which I don't read. However, the video is perfectly cromulent for instruction and the bag is indeed pretty!

Inauguration Banner

I'm mildly displeased with the vertical spacing on this. Not at all even! Ah well. I made it so she can hang it in her window, from one of those horizontal flagpole things that they do outside US houses, or put it on a crosspole in a march, like a standard bearer!

Star curtain

Oh, and this curtain section to hang up in the window for Christmas!

You can't see the 'vanes' of the star from this photograph, but it looks quite spectactular in person.

I keep on dreaming of making a full nativity diorama, with wise men, shepherds, and the holy family... It's a lot of piecing work, so the chances are probably 'never'.

Other than that, I'm trying to sew a dress for a couple of weddings in January. Assuming that we manage to get our current COVID cases (3 new today) under control... I'm not really liking our chances...