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Just a Little Progress Update…

I’m making pretty good headway on my UFOs this year. April was particularly fantastic, with six project finishes and a couple more well on their way to being finished. I was really proud of my progress this weekend as well (although I must say a lot of other things got neglected in the process…)I’m working on a tutorial for making a quilt based on the Old Maid’s Puzzle block, and using the instructions as an opportunity to show how to cut this using the AccuQuilt machines. I actually have a series of 13 projects in the works, and they are all being published to HandmadeNews.org. I will say that it was rather ambitious of me to start a 13-project series with a gigantic 60″ quilt, so rest assured I won’t be doing *that* again. It’s hard enough to do the Project Quilting challenges in 1 week – but to do that plus a giant 60″ quilt from start to finish? Insane. (And yes, that is a cookie sheet. Please do not ask how it wound up in the studio or why it became a project container… but it worked pretty well!) I did take the opportunity also to intersperse another project in between the OMP blocks. Last year I was supposed to be doing a Quilt Along with nine-patch blocks. I made all the blocks, but didn’t get the quilt made… I broke it into two projects, and neither of them got made. Last week I got one of them completely pieced with the backing & binding prepared, and this week, I had the other of them laid on the cutting table. Because of the specific layout (I told myself) – the only way to move the project was to piece it together! It actually helped to break up the monotony, and I got pretty far on two projects, for which I was very glad. This one is sashed with a dark grey that looks almost black in this photo. The really nice thing about finishing the piecing on this, is to be able to reclaim my cutting table! At the opposite end of the table, you can get a glimpse of the fabric for the backing & binding. Happy quilting!

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