Working on many projects

 I know some quilters are a "finish one project before you start another one." That's not me. 🤣 At least not recently. This week's work is a great example of that.

On Tuesday I went to our bimonthly Quilting Bees get together. We make quilts to give to church members going through difficult seasons as well as to people whose homes have had significant damage. A group of men from the church volunteer their time to make necessary repairs. They have been going to the NC mountains for a week each month this year and it will be awhile before the work is done there!  Each trip they will work on 1-2 homes and so we send 2 quilts with them each month.

For the last few months, I have been the primary quilter when tops are finished. But a new gal joined us and she will begin to help in that regard!! I have been quilting about 2-3 a month. I left the meeting with 2 quilts to quilt and one large quilt to piece the backing.

Wednesday a friend joined me and we began cutting fabric for a quilt we are both making, Crimson Christmas by Krista Moser, pictured here:


It uses a 60 degree diamond ruler. Thankfully, Krista has a YouTube tutorial that goes over the cutting instructions. We watched the first part and cut much of the first set. 

Week after next I'll be doing a demo for our quilting group. We have many new quilters and I'll demonstrate how helpful chain piecing, webbing and leaders and enders are to the quilt top making process. So on Thursday I pulled together projects to demonstrate. 

I'll use 3 projects I'm currently working on. First, my ongoing bunk bed quilts. The first is done, but not quilted. I have 10 of the 28 needed blocks for the second quilt. 


The second is my main leader and ender project (although I have 2) It's a Buckeye Beauty in patriotic colors. 


The third is the beginning of a wedding gift that I'm making using Kaffe Facett's Sorbet collection. It has the bride and groom's favorite colors. I'm hoping the white background tones it down a bit 😆

So that's 4 very active projects not including the disappearing pinwheels backing that I'm piecing, the Blue Illusion quilt I'm quilting, another leader and ender project and a few others tucked away in project boxes waiting their turn.

Are you a finish one and then move on or are you like me with multiple project in the works at any one time? 

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