Finish-Along: Q2 Finishes

Sadly, only one as per my Q2 Goals post - but what a doozy!

After four years of painstaking toil, the Plain Jane Passacaglia is DONE!


Full picture of it hanging in the show, this weekend just past:


Lovely as it is, I'm so glad it's done...well, mostly. I might do some more quilting on it. Or cut it up and remake it, just for fun. We'll see how I feel about it shortly...

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I did get Break Free Or Build Upon to the flimsy stage - even to the basting stage!


And then, once again, my machine failed me in the final week, and I had to withdraw my entry in the Sydney Quilt Show.

To be honest, it doesn't do quite what I'd hoped it might. It's also overly-large and I don't know what I was thinking making it like that...

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The other goals are being rolled over to Q3:

-2x Scrappy Round The World
-4x backings

Plain Jane [WIP Wednesday]

It truly feels like I've been doing this forever.

Like, seriously, FOREVER. I'm so tired of sewing teeny tiny seams and feeling like I never get anywhere!

Little pieces, little pieces, little pieces...

SO.
MANY.
LITTLE.
PIECES.


So much planning...

This goes with that...

And pieceing...

Sewing, sewing, never stopping...

And laying out...

This fits just there...

It's enough to drive one batty!

And yet...progress is being made.

The shape of it is starting to fill out. It feels like it's moving towards being quilt-shaped...

Even if there's still a lot to do.



As in, a LOT to do.

But we persevere.

It's slow progress, but progress nevertheless!


And when I get a chance to stand back and look...

Yeah, that's kind of what I imagined it would be like.

Beautiful.

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Do you have a WIP Wednesday that you've been working on? Would you like to link to it in the comments?

the Plain Jane Passacaglia: 100 days of seams

One of my goals for this year is to get the Plain Jane Passcaglia finished. Towards this end, I'm doing a "100 days of seams" with the quilt - where I sew at least one seam per day.

It started from the 20th January, at the Sydney Mod Squad meetup:
And then progressed very slowly over the next few days


Sometimes it was literally one seam:

And then there's the issue of laying things out to work out the edges:

Planning the bits to fill in the gaps

Making the bits to fill in the gaps

And sewing them in:

On the upside, I've definitely made progress around the edges. It's getting there. Not as fast as I'd like, but when does it ever?

WIP: the one with a nearly-completed bag!

Bags are not my bag, baby, so this is pretty exciting. Plus, my first bag from this book of patterns!

WIPs

Fireside Bowl Bag

Saturday night, I had the pieces all cut out:



I spent most of Monday fitting it all together - it's not too difficult, although I probably need to change a few things up.

Nearly done! Just waiting for the swivel hooks to arrive - I had the wrong size and the wrong type.



I'd like to do this again, but with leather as the 'contrast' fabric. Pattern is by Sew Sweetness, from her book 'Big City Bags'. And it's certainly a pretty damn big bag - very roomy inside!

Plain Jane Passcaglia

Another rosette centre is done:



I've kind of decided to go off the pattern; I'm not going to follow her structure, just going to fit my own together and finish it up. I don't think I have the staying power to complete it that way.

TO DO:

1. baby quilts for twins
2. baby quilts for sibling brothers (one was born just this morning - and mum and baby are all good - yay!)
3. Scrappy Log Cabins