Where to Start?

A friend of mine asked what would I do now that the big quilt is finished.  I laughed.  Are you sure you wanted to ask me that?  I rattled off at least a half dozen projects that have been queuing up over the last several months.  

I was so excited putting my sewing room back in order late last week.  The sewing machine had been up against my cutting table to handle quilting a big quilt.  Now it's back over by the wall.  In addition, when I work on a big project all scraps get chucked in a corner.  Wow - the black and white quilt generated a lot of scrap.  There were quite a few bits from a mystery quilt and Project Quilting, too.  Sorting through that will keep me busy for several evenings this week.  

My sewing machine needed a good cleaning and I have to fiddle with the thread tension again.  As soon as I do that, I have piecing to do!  

Finishing the mystery quilt is top on my list.  It needs borders and then I can quilt it.  The baby-quilt size left me with two extra blocks I didn't want for my wall hanging, so I think I'll make them into mug rugs.  

That's only the beginning of my backlog!  There's a pile of batting strips that need to be stitched together.  Another pile of many cut pieces from the big quilt when I changed my mind on the background color.  Plus a pile of grey fabric pinned and ready to cut as kaleidoscope squares.  What can I make with them?  I see several black-and-white mini projects in my future.

I have a set of string blocks that are ready to become a twin sized quilt hanging out in my closet.  Then there's my ongoing scrappy projects that need their next round of work:  wrapping fabric on cord for a cord bowl, sewing together more crumb fabric while I dream up a quilt to use them, and my next set of string and selvedge blocks.

And if that's not enough... there's a dollhouse in the basement that needs some renovations.  Yup - I have plenty to keep me busy until the next round of Project Quilting!