When I wrote the first Dream Projects post, I really wasn’t sure this would be a regular feature. I still don’t know if it will be a regular feature. However, projects I have wanted to do for awhile keep springing into my head so I am doing another post. Also, I found some other patches for blocks and quilt tops for which I had already started cutting. So many projects are taking up space in some part of my head that I can’t fit them all. I thought I had better add them to this list so I wouldn’t forget about them again.
For now, I am not dating these posts, I will just number them. I like the idea of time not passing. It seems that if I make it too easy to see how long time has passed with these projects undone, I might get depressed and I want this post to be possibilities.
Like I said last time, some of these come from the Current Projects list (Hunting and Gathering section). I don’t know if I will keep them there or move them here. Lots to work out, so stay tuned.
Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Quilt
- Pattern: Original
- Fabric: Blue and red
- Steps: need to fuse a bunch of turquoise to something
- Fabric: Scrappy
- Pattern: Fons & Porter
- Thoughts: I like the challenge of piecing this quilt
Blue Gradation Quilt (Hunting and Gathering)
- Fabric: blue 2.5×4.5 rectangles
- Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
- Thoughts:
Blue Lemonade (Hunting and Gathering)
- Fabric: blue, purple and green scrappy
- Pattern: inspiration from TFQ’s Pink Lemonade quilt
- Thoughts:
Easy Street
- Fabric: pinks
- Pattern: Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter
- Thoughts: I really liked Daisy‘s version of Easy Street, which she calls Cherry Bomb (she thinks of the best names for quilts) in terms of color and feel. I don’t want to copy her, but if I do this quilt, I’d like to have the same pinky-red feel to it. One challenge about a mostly monochromatic quilt is getting enough contrast. I look forward to that challenge.
Food quilt #2 (Hunting and Gathering)
- Pattern: Disappearing something, probably 4 patch or 9 patch
- Fabric: RJR Food prints. Will use a different color for the non-food print section than I did for the Young Man’s version.
- Thoughts: Gift for son of good friends for graduation
Food quilt #3 (Hunting and Gathering)
- Pattern: Disappearing something, probably 4 patch or 9 patch
- Fabric: RJR Food prints. Will use a different color for the non-food print section than I did for the Young Man’s version.
- Thoughts: Gift for nephew for graduation
Half Moon Modern Quilt
- Pattern: I have some ideas, but nothing definite
- Fabric: Half Moon Modern Fabrics. I have half yard cuts, I think, plus some odds and ends and I’d like to use them together with some additional fabrics, or, at least a background.
- Thoughts: I do think it is difficult to start with fabrics rather than a pattern.
Music Quilt
- pattern: Don’t know
- Fabric: music prints and tone-on-tones
- Thoughts: The Young Man has requested this quilt as his graduation quilt
Pineapple (Hunting and Gathering)
- Fabric: dots. Have most of the strips cut. Will be much more selective about which strips I use.
- Pattern: Pineapple log cabin
- Thoughts: I haven’t given up on a Pineapple quilt despite my frustration with the previous attempt. I bought a different ruler: a Creative Grids Pineapple ruler in hopes that it will work better for me.
Pink Gradation Quilt (Hunting and Gathering)
- Fabric: pink 2.5×4.5 rectangles
- Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
- Thoughts:
Scrapitude #2
- Fabric: scrappy again, but with NO browns or blacks or super darks that look like holes; also more blues and perhaps a different background, though I do like the dots on white.
- Pattern: Scrapitude by Charlotte
- Thoughts: I want to try and figure out how to make the edges NOT on the bias.
Silk Colorblock quilt
- Fabrics: silk dupioni and cotton in brights (of course)
- Pattern: Similar to Colorblocks 2
- Thoughts: I have made a couple of, what I call, Colorblock quilts over the years. One was the Kona Challenge in 2011, another was my 1990 Colorblocks 2 and the first one, Colorblocks, also made in about 1990. I bought the fabrics at the Marin Needlearts show about a zillion years ago and they have languished waiting for me to learn to back them so I can use them.
Spin Wheel (Hunting and Gathering)
- Pattern: Fons & Porter Spin Wheel
- Fabric: Scrappy
Stepping Stones #2 (Hunting and Gathering)
- Fabric: Bonnie & Camille fabrics Bliss, Ruby, Vintage Modern: made two test blocks, but still in the thinking stage while I decide on the background colors. I want the contrast to be good.
- Pattern:
Stepping Stones #3
- Fabric: Macaron pre-cuts from Hoffman. It isn’t started, but I have all the pre-cuts and think they would make a really fun version of this quilt.
- Pattern:
Windmill (Hunting and Gathering)
- Fabric: Scrappy. I will use a grey for the background, because if I use more of the cut fabric patches, the pattern will be lost. The pieces are too oddly shaped and I don’t want to lose the pattern in a mass of scraps.
- Pattern: Come Quilt with Me Rotary templates
I don’t know if this will be a regular feature, but it might be.
Every time you write one of these types of posts, I tell myself I need to find a manageable way to get my lists created and out of my head.
I want to do a pineapple quilt as well. I’m interested in hearing your thoughts about the Creative Grid Ruler.
I am sure I will write about it when I get there.
You can write one of these posts. I am a listmaker so it comes naturally to me. Do it! It is such a relief to not have all that stuff rattling around in my brain.
You always just plain awe me. Just awesome.
You are sweet! Thanks for reading.
I also have to get myself to make a UFO list, and also a wanna make list. Pineapple is on it, even bought an awesome booklet with instructions. And a must make for me is the Aunt Millie’s Garden by Piece O’ Cake Designs.
Write the list right now!!! You can do it.
Your list is great Jaye! Several of these are on my “to make one day” list too, particularly a pineapple and a music quilt. I look forward to seeing each of these here as they develop!
😉
I was thinking of the music quilt this morning, so that may be next on my list. I hope to see what you make as well.