Project List: To Dos To Do

Here are the quilts I am planning to make with my mountains of fabric. List does not include baby clothes, miscellaneous gifts or home dec projects.

Pile of baby clothes projects (minus brown gingham, that is not for baby clothes)

Currently making:

1. double-gauze yellow/white/grey/blue HST full-sized quilt; planning to use no-binding technique & possibly quilt with hand weight fabric, planning to use Robert Kaufman Essex Linen on back  
2. Children At Play balloon bunny crib-sized quilt; another opportunity to practice my appliqué, may do some FMQ on it
3. You Are My Sunshine grey & white crib-sized quilt; made this to practice my appliqué, has a minky back (awesome), currently stalled because I am attempting to hand bind it & I hate sewing by hand

Have started cutting:

1. double-gauze yellow/pink/white small blanket; could be other good option for testing quilting with a heavy weight thread 
2. matching twin quilts- giraffe & hippo rainbow quilts like bitty baby's crib quilt 
3. Heather Ross Briar Rose rainbow quilt for me; planning to make this pattern full-size & make it more in the style of Made by Rae's original Heather Ross Rainbow Quilt & plan to use up all fabrics in the line, not just 17, & will change layout slightly & & & . . . more posts on this coming soon. Feel free to join me for world's slowest quilt-a-long. You'll need 1/2 yard of each fabric + backing. I think it will be a large full-size when finished. 
4. Heather Ross Briar Rose big girl quilt for my niece; will be approx twin-sized, not sure if I will make another rainbow quilt or some other pattern, make mix in some white or these super pretty coordinating solids
5. queen sized Liberty snowball quilt; this is one of those quilts that I think will take me 10 years! I have collected a ton of rainbow Liberty pieces & want to make a quilt with a rainbow/ombré pattern around white snowballs (started this long before Heather Ross rainbow quilt came on my radar) a queen-size quilt is a MAJOR undertaking for me & I will probably have to have it professionally quilted 

Have started hoarding:

1. blue & yellow nautical (Storyboek) quilt; I think this will be a zigzag quilt using the nonHST technique 
2. blue/grey/white mod boy's quilt; lots of Japanese imports, may use HST set on point? 
3. low volume quilt inspired by Red Pepper Quilts; may try using double HST in this quilt? so squares will be made out of 4 triangles
4. Aneela Hoey A Walk in the Woods pinwheels quilt 

Things I want to make but haven't necessarily bought for yet: 

1. gingham quilt; I am hoarding some Riley Blake large gingham for the back of this,  Lurve, Gah, so good
2. herringbone quilt; I haven't seen one exactly like what I want & I keep putting this pattern off b/c it seems like it wastes a lot of fabric
3. lots of ombré things with white backgrounds; maybe I will make a rainbow ombré quilt with white for my niece's Briar Rose quilt 

Squeee!!!!

My new Heather Ross Briar Rose stash has started to arrive. Yay! Just what I need.

My mind is racing with all the possibility! Current plans include 2 quilts with green strawberry backing on one and pink hexagon hive backing on the other. Would love to make myself something out of the purple & yellow hexagon hives. 

And this may become some ridiculously cute frog shorts for bitty baby. 

Still waiting for my official Briar Rose pack from HR herself. 

work in progress... more like shopping in progress

While interneting this spring, I realized that I need to make a low volume quilt (thank you Red Pepper Quilts  and a double-gauze quilt (thank you Made by Rae). Since I'm further along in the process of my double-gauze, I'll chronicle that fabric-hoarding shame spiral.

I've actually gotten so far as to actually piecing some HST but need more fabric to have enough for a full size quilt. I'm planning to use this on the full size bed in the nursery, though I seem to vaguely remember preordering a briar rose collectors pack from Heather Ross for the same purpose. Oops.

Plans. I think maybe they've changed since this?

So anyway, double-gauze isn't something I usually work with so I'm excited to see how this turns out. It also means I didn't have much to pull from my stash going into this project- just some Heather Ross & Japanese imports I had unintentionally collected.

Pretty Heather Ross

I started off at Super Buzzy, my FAVORITE for Japanese imports & got some ridiculously cute panda & honey bear prints as well as some odds & ends I thought might work. At this point I thought it would be a yellow, pink, etc quilt though I have since decided to use the pinks on a separate double-gauze quilt.*

Just a few new fabrics... I might've gotten some extras for a different project.

After my super buzzy order arrived, I reevaluated my fabric choices (decided to make 2 different project) & made some basic guesstimates as to how much fabric I needed. 

not sure why this last pic is so blurry

Then it was off to etsy, my 2d favorite source for Japanese imports. My first order is a good example of why etsy is a distant 2d- it never arrived. So I try tried again with a few other sellers & patiently awaited the arrival of my fun "kawaii" packages. At this point I had decided my quilt was going to be yellow, grey & maybe some blue. I had also decided to use some Heather Ross nursery versery even though it's not double gauze because why not. And I ordered some other odds & ends because why not.

for a future project... couldn't resist adding them to my order.

Once my 3rd round of orders arrived, I started cutting & matching up fabrics. I stopped about 3/4 of the way through piecing to count up my squares & realized I only had about 1/2 as much fabric as I need total so it was back to etsy. 

I'm currently stalled out waiting for this 4th round of fabric to arrive & keeping my fingers crossed that it actually will. I'm pretty proud of how well I did only buying for this project (& the other future double-gauze project...) considering how full my etsy cart was when I went to check out.

*this is another one of my problems- the inability go just make one thing at a time. I always buy extra in case I like my project enough I want to make another or use the fabric in another project.

Oh good

40% off Michael Miller at Fat Quarter Shop ( through 7/15). Just what I needed.