May To-Do

May feels like a month where a whole lot needs to get done and finished, etc. So, I'm planning to work on  being focused and productive in the studio. Here's what the design wall looks like on May Day. Patchwork Palooza quit top is still up there, waiting for a backing, as well as the almost finished Snake in The Garden and the finished Kawandii. The in-process Ocean Effect is awaiting finishing steps. I'm adding onto my to-do list this month, as I realized that the two UFO challenges I'm participating in, aren't incorporated fully here along with my other to-do's.

Note: the use of 🥏👽  by a project name indicates that it's on the 2026 UFO Finishes challenge list of six projects that I committed to finishing at the beginning of the year (more on that list later). Note, this is not the same list as the UFO Challenge for BAMQ, that UFO will have this next to it on the list:🌀🌐  

QUILTS

Design & Begin

Design and make a quilt for the BAMQ library display for The Wizard of Oz - No picture yet

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

Lupine & Laughter Mystery Quilt - keep making units following the clue instructions

BAMQ BOM - make monthly blocks of varying sizes through the year.

Continue Assembly

Patchwork Palooza - Decide on borders, make backing & binding

Keep working on Sour Grass Grace from Jane Sassaman class.

Old Town Mystery Quilt - make a backing & binding, decide on whether to have it quilted

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.

Mini QCR Pumpkins table runner- make more blocks and assemble, quilt, finish.

🌀🌐 Five by Five quilt, assemble into quilt top, quilt, finish.

🌀🌐 David Owen Hastings class piece, make more blocks, assemble into quilt top, quilt, finish🥏👽 

                                      

Quilting

🥏👽 Bohemian Wife -  Sandwich this and start quilting it🌀🌐 

Finish assembling and quilting  Ocean Effect for the BAMQ Challenge Modern Art to Modern Quilt display at the SMCF 

Final Steps 

Ocean Effect could go almost go in here too.

🥏👽 Bending the Calendar - Cut up? Re-arrange? Embellish?🌀🌐 

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.

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 -  🌀🌐

Body Pillow-knit cotton pillowcase - 🌀🌐 

Quilted Dog Jacket for Meg - 🌀🌐  

Hey! This Is All Finished!

Kawandii - Finished !🌀🌐 

Finished my addition to the Creative Play for BAMQ before Sew Day and passed it on.

Clover Pillowcase - Finished!🌀🌐 

So...how about that? Lots and lots of actual finishing happened, which feels good for the last couple months that felt like I was so close to finishing things. Hope I can keep up the forward progress in May!