wip wedn 2026.3

 

my design wall has empty space on it! (most recent photo included in this post.) do you know what came off finally? i've been a busy bee, steadily house planning during business hours and sewing in the evenings (which makes for crummy photos, so i haven't bothered taking any). i've moved several ancient wips forward. a weekend of quilting for two days straight gave me four basted quilt "samiches." i'm on a roll for the moment.

here's someone else's wips: d1's 3.5 yr old son and her "puppy park" bricks quilt, started when she was a high school freshman some 13 years ago. wow. she made the quilt as part of an english project, but once she put the needed hours in for the project, she never got around to finishing the quilt. last spring, d5 and i were going to surprise her by binding it for her and we made up the binding, but never got it attached. d1 has been interested in doing it herself, but we can never hit on a time for me to teach her. earlier this month we had a moment when we thought we could do that, but it turns out it wasn't even machine attached to the quilt. so my grandson, r, and i pinned the binding on together while little mother looked on and nursed the baby. she kept saying, "i can't believe i started that quilt as a freshman and now my son is laying on it but it's still not finished." well, we're one small step closer now! r was a wild man with the pins. he flung a few and did not want to just hand me one at a time when i requested them. his mom kept an eye on where they were landing so i could collect them.

looking back over my rentry to blogging last year, i think maybe i post too often. for now, my intention for this year is to post maybe twice a week. i can get very detailed in my recording of the process of quilting, but i think i've overdone that a bit. my goal is to be more concise - keeping my posts shorter and less frequent. i'm going to resurrect "wip wednesday" posts to report weekly on progress and if i have additional items to talk about, will post those on a different day of the week, maybe friday or saturday?

i'll title these "wip wednesday" posts with the year and week, so this post is from the 3rd week of 2026. since this is the first one i've done this year, i'll compile the weeks for my report stats. what have i accomplished so far this year?

the pile from my productive weekend

piecing: i worked on the tops below

completed tops: gypsy child hst, bright forest

backed/basted/samiched: gypsy child hst, bright forest, frosted forest star, fairytale log cabin

finishes: farmer oak's flocks, liberty courthouse steps, liberty christmas log cabins

i've also cleaned and purged in my room a lot, organized some fabric shelves that were in sad shape. i don't have an easy way to classify what all i did, so i'll just leave it at that. i cleaned!