December To-Do

Here's how my design wall looks on the first day of December. It's quite different than many of the preceding months of this year. The finished Old Town Mystery quilt top is now carefully folded up and off of the wall. Also no longer on the wall is the Jane Sassaman class project, Sour Grace, which is now boxed up and awaiting the next step. 

In the foreground as usual is the scrap box I've been working from to make the weekly Patchwork Palooza blocks. Next to the box is the bag with the in-process Oxbow Tote. on top of the box is the Stamp Quilt, Temperature Quilt, in the brown tote is the BAMQ BOM fabric pull and completed blocks. 

All of the completed blocks for Patchwork Palooza are arranged over on the left of the wall. Still pinned up on the right is my not as recently returned from being shown quilt, “Our Mistake.” All the other projects are recently recovered from a smashed pile that I pinned up just to look at. Some are from the 2024 Project Quilting or other classes.

On to the final To-Do list of 2025.  I'm continuing on with using the not-so-very-new configuration of my to-do list below, as it more closely follows the database categories that I use to keep track of all my work-in-progress. I'm keeping the Design and Finished section going forward. Note: the use of 🥏👽  by a project name indicates that it's on the 2025 UFO Finishes challenge list of six projects that I committed to finishing at the beginning of the year.

QUILTS

Design & Begin

Pantone Project - work on a overall design, either in EQ8 or up on the design wall.

Lupine & Laughter Mystery Quilt - keep making units as mystery clues are revealed.

BAMQ BOM - make monthly blocks of varying sizes.

Continue Assembly

Patchwork Palooza - add sashing/cornerstones and assemble top

Keep working on Sour Grass Grace from Jane Sassaman class.

Old Town Mystery Quilt - make a backing & binding

AG Stamp Quilt - continue to make more blocks using the final group of fussy-cut stamp block centers from Tula Pink fabrics.

Continue the piecing of Selvedge Candy (maybe the name) quilt originally designed for the 2025 MQG challenge.

🥏👽 Sew the last 6 columns and sashing together of the 2023 Temperature Quilt together to make the quilt top.

🥏👽 Bohemian Wife -  Sandwich this and start quilting it

                                      

Quilting

leaving this category right here so I don't forget to use it next time

Final Steps 

🥏👽City Sampler- the long-armer is still working on it!

HANDWORK/BAG/CLOTHING PROJECTS 

Make a Cotton Candy pouch for myself.

Make a Charlie's Aunt wool purse for myself, first felt the wool from Pendleton Mill.

Oxbow Tote - Continue the assembly. 

Toned-Down Circle Sampler - now that I have the appropriately sized grey background felt, arrange and appliqué the circles, start embroidering.

Y.E.S. Coat - continue making pieces/blocks. assemble on foundation, cut out lining pieces from the fabric that I dyed

Snake In The Garden - Finish hand stitching

Kawandii - Finish hand stitching/assembly

Hey! This Is All Finished!

I'm still leaving this category here so I don't forget to use it next time I finish something

Again, no actual finishing happened during this past month. But, I worked on nine out of eighteen to-do projects. It's good to keep progressing on many fronts. Keeping on keeping on....