What's next?

First off, I want to thank you all for the overwhelming response and kind comments about my wall. I'm glad you like it as much as I do and if there's one lesson that I can share from this project it's this: just start somewhere. Don't try to plan everything out, just start and let the project unfold as it needs to. I started with the framework and then just tackled it one clamshell at a time and it eventually came together.

After I finish a large project I like to take a day or 2 to regroup and reorganize all of my projects and spaces and get myself on track for another few months. This time I had the added carrot of a new challenge project from my quilt club, Country School Quilters. They are starting a  challenge quilt series. It's a low stress project with only a couple of rules for each challenge and I've been on the fence about joining in.  So I decided to think through all of my current projects and available workspaces to see if I wanted to jump in. 

​Let's take a look, shall we. 

On the big sewing table with my Juki I have the scraps from the Rainbow Quilt spread out and I have an idea of where I want to go with them. There are lots of scraps so there's a whole new quilt in here and I'm very excited about the directing this is heading.

On the small sewing table with the Brother machine are tiny bits from the wedding quilt that I cut out for Mom and from the Rainbow Quilt. I've got several postcard ideas working here and this is great late night mindless sewing.

Let's not forget about the symmetry quilt blocks either. They have their own dedicated design wall and I work on cutting out the blocks sitting on the floor in front of the open cabinet. This is an easy project to get out, work on for an hour or so and then put away. 

I keep a separate project to work on at the monthly CSQ sewing days (this month that's tomorrow and Saturday) and I have been very anxious to get to this one once the rainbow quilt tops were done. This is my oldest UFO and one that I still love. Just the borders left to go. I'll post more about it next week

On FloMo I've loaded the last of the Rainbow quilt tops. This small quilt will be a class sample for my Ruling Rulers class at The Longarm Network. It shouldn't take long to finish.

While the cutting table is clear I'm going to get this marked so that it will be the next thing quilted on FloMo. After that I have at least 10 veterans quilts waiting and probably 8 more of my own quilts.

Oh, and let's not forget that there's a new wall section coming up and I'm making fused glass fish for the backsplash for my dye sink!

So, after taking stock of what's currently on my plate and realizing that I didn't want to trade any of them out, I've decided to not participate in the challenge quilts....for now.