a small update

So I've been plugging away over here trying to move projects forward. Maybe not finishing anything, but moving forward just the same. One thing continues to chew at me. This whole Jinny Beyer palette non-sense. I've got the strips cut for the Woven Ribbons projects, yes I'm making 2 of them and hope to sit down with my sewing machine this week and get the palette blocks pieced. I'm currently marking the triangles for the Snowbirds quilt I also cut fabric for. I've been referring back to the photograph of the original to see how far along my marking is coming and I've come to realize something. My quilt isn't going to look like the original. My Woven Ribbons won't look like the original either because the palette was completely redesigned and colors shifted between the time I bought my box and today. This is what I get for hoarding fabric I suppose. Now, this hasn't chased me off either project, but it has irritated me about how the palette has been handled. I wonder how many other quilters out there did what I did? I wonder how many will try to take the old palette box and try to make a new quilt out of it? Small lesson learned.

Of course my latest push to get these projects finished is I want desperately to make a mixed pieced and applique quilt. I have EVERYTHING I need to make it, right down to the quilting stencils. I have made a quick list of projects sitting around here, ones not in boxes and I won't start the new pretty until I get these 6 projects pieced. So every day this month I'm working to get them finished. Let's see how far I can get in the next 19 days.