Going to pieces - WIP Wednesday

I had a lovely time at the Road to California quilt show last week, but it has taken me a few days to get back in the swing of things.  Partly because I caught a cold while there, returned to a household of similar colds, had a mountain of laundry waiting for me, and, well, you get the idea.  I do plan on reviewing the classes I took while at the show, but first I figured I should finish one of the actual projects first.

This is what I've been working on:

This is a pattern by Emily Cier called "Discontinuity".  I am only 4/5 of the way finished with the baby sized quilt top, which has 723 individual pieces to it (according to the cutting directions - for the baby quilt!!!).  I can't write a review yet because 1) I'm not done, 2) I'm not done cursing it yet, and 3) I think more cursing might be coming as the top hasn't had a single seam pressed yet (Emily recommends waiting until the entire top is completed).

I realize that sounds pretty negative, so let me say something positive.  I adore the look of this pattern, and I know of a much easier way to piece it for future quilts.  However, I paid my money, so I played along with the original directions.  Curse me. Curse, curse, curse.

This Wednesday...

Completed Projects:

• Bee Blocks - Lucky Stars BOM practice block and sample/tutorial block for the We Bee Learning bee

On-going Projects:

AKA - "stuff I plan to touch this week or next".

• My Blue & White One Block Wonder -This is my January UFO - decided I had to go with what I had for backing. 
• Bee Blocks & BOM blocks - Skill Builder BOM blocks
• Star of Africa Bee - catch up continues  
• Curves Class goodies - I haven't done a single project yet.  So sad!  My printer won't allow me to print anything at the moment, so I can't print any of the templates needed for the majority of the projects.  Ugh, technology!
• Discontinuity Quilt - I didn't quite finish the first 1/2 of the baby quilt in class, and I am STILL working on it.  Tomorrow may be the day if I don't throw it out the window.

Back Burner:

These will likely be touched in a couple of weeks.

• Handstitched Medallion Quilt - quilting in progress.  I actually did a little bit of this one on my trip!
• Beginner Quilt Along at Quilting Gallery - top needs to be put together. It is ridiculous that I haven't just slapped this one together yet.  I am taking Leah Day's Craftsy class how to quilt a sampler hoping to get some good quilting ideas.
• Charity quilt for the guild - not started.   
• NEW Baby quilt - two friends are having a babies soon, and it sounds like a perfect reason to make a couple new quilts, right?  

The Back, Back Burner:

Lightning would have to strike twice, but I like to keep this category going just to remind me what I have in the pipeline.

• Handstitched goodies - several small projects in limbo.  
• Star Circles aka New York Beauty blocks - time is coming to get back to these

This week's stats:
Completed projects - 1 ish
New projects - 0
Currently in Progress - 5

Don't forget to link up any blocks you have been working on to the Building Blocks Tuesday post!

And as always, thanks for reading,

Jen



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