Time for new projects!

Good news, it seems that my allergies/cold/flu from Monday was really just allergies. Now I"m just trying to figure out the source but it's all under control with the magic of Benedryl.
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On the sewing front it's time for some planning. I can't just jump into projects. I really need plans and lists. I've spent the last few months finishing a lot of projects and I feel really good about that. So good, that now it's time to start lots of new projects. Actually, as I look through the list I really only have 1 new one but I have 3 others "on the list" that I'm going to give some attention to.

First, I need a new project for the longarm and this one is finally up. It's my oldest UFO and one of my personal favorite quilts. I started piecing it in 1998! The top was finished July 2017 and now it's time for quilting. I'll do lots of continuous curves in the 1: squares but all that black is calling for mandalas or maybe feathers. I've printed off a copy to play with some ideas.

​I've got several piecing projects planned. 

Fist is this UFO. I made a lot of stitched and clamped shibori samples a couple of years ago and have been searching for something to do with them.

I'm going to use some of them for penguin bellies! I'll get started on this one this week. It will be a lap quilt and will go to one of my SILs. The hard part with this one will be the tiny eyes and beaks.  But I don't mind a little tedium when I have a good book to listen to.

Next it's time to put these together. I drew up this quick layout in EQ and that's probably how it's going to be done. I want to have a side border for a heavily feathered vine. I envision some cross-hatched diamonds between the blocks. Mom, Anne and I are going to Paducah this year and one of my goals on that trip is to find repro feedsack backing fabrics for this and the first flowers quilt.

Then I'm going to get back to working on some symmetry projects! I did the little cat quilt last September for Paula's new line of fabric. My other SIL and brother LOVE cats so I just had to make a bigger one for her. It will be lap size and we decided on the layout on the right. Each cat head block will be about 8" x 10" so I expect to piece some of the. I want to spend more time really building cat faces. While I'm cutting out cat faces I will also cut pieces to finally finish the Pleiades II quilt. It's been on this design wall for way too long and it's really not that far from being done.

So those are my plans for the next few months. But I'll be going to 2 quilts shows in the next several weeks so who knows what will really happen. But, for now, I'm actually very motivated on all of these projects.