Loose ends and future plans

Our summer guest will be moving into her new condo early next week, we hope.  The financial stuff related to the purchase is coming along well, and her sons are planning to come to help with the move next Monday.  Having just finished two big projects, I decided not to start anything new this week.  Yesterday I finished a rug I started for my brother out of a quilt I made him years ago.  I cut some non-slip stuff to fit and used my walking foot to attach it.  Today I'll pack it up to mail to him.

While I was in the basement, I started a couple of mug rugs with left over Christmas fabrics.   I have a stack of them to give to library staff and need a few more.  I'll continue making them today and will quilt them when I get back up to the Elna which I have missed very much.  

On tap when I get back to my sewing room will be finishing some UFOs - the guild block of the month, a Kristin Laura block of the month, and Optimism blocks of the month by Aby Dolinger.   Now that the guild year has begun again, I will plan on making something out of a fat quarter swap this month to show at the November meeting.  There's a little scrappy red quilt hanging in the closet for quilting, too.  And speaking of guild, I hope not to be tempted to make the block of the month each month this year because that just adds to my backlog.  If I can finish up the UFOs I have before plunging ahead, I will be happy.

Having taken a class in curved piecing with Beth Ann Williams a few weeks ago, I hope to use my overflowing tub of blue fabric for a Blue Onion quilt or table runner.  The directions were a bit confusing when I first got the pattern, but Beth Ann helped make some sense of them.  It involves layering, cutting, shuffling, flipping, etc. piles of six fabrics.  This was the third class I've taken with Beth Ann this year.  Her instructions are incredibly clear.  

I have a pile of holiday fabric upstairs set aside to work on a Jen Kingwell Wensleydale quilt next year.  I have the papers from the Fat Quarter Shop all ready to go and have viewed a You Tube video from Quilted Chicken about how to put fabric together so that blocks end up scrappy.  I will probably watch it again as my memory isn't what it used to be.  Each block ends up as a rectangle about 6" x 9".