means Works in Progress. I have many. I decided to finish one of them. Six small embroidered and quilted pillows.

I needed a portable project, found one in the embroidery drawer, got the 3 colors of floss ready and other supplies, not intending to start on it at all. A week later, I have three of them embroidered and one quilted.

Glory is quilted. Liberty is basted, has blue lines drawn, ready to be quilted. Rabbit is basted and needs the blue lines which disappear when a light mist is sprayed on.

For the past four weeks, in between everything else, I’ve been working on a lined coat using two colors of denim from my stash. I added a few embroidery details at the hem and the triangles on the upper pockets.

A clothesline and a bicycle in one embroidery design – I had to make this. And I was able to use a lot of scrap fabric to finish it.

Jim and Lucy asked if I could figure out how to make a bag for the right side of Jim’s wheelchair – something to hold his wallet, a remote control, a special pocket for his cell phone. It was a fun project to figure out and took 3 fittings to get it right. And I used more scraps.

It’s always nice to see where something landed. This is Abbey in Virginia with the 50 Bikes for 50 Kids quilt.

Previously I shared the completion of the t-shirt quilt

and a very good Sunday watching football and finishing Sophia’s Christmas gift. *Note the blue fabric in the background.

In between, I finished an embroidered pillow for Adrienne – a thank you gift for all the Joe Pickett books and inviting me to Hawaii last fall –

and a blouse, which turned out (grrr) not to fit me, however it fit Terri just fine. And she liked the print and material.

Then it was time to finish project #5, a blouse that Phyl and I had cut out in January 2022 – ONE year ago – the blue material in the above picture. And nothing went right, I spent several hours trying to figure things out and finally called Phyl in frustration. Her advice was to set it aside and think about it. Whew! So, while I ponder a solution, I think I’ll adjust the blouse pattern and keep working on another little embroidery project. No idle hands in this house!

The day after I got back from Montana, I got right to work on a project with a deadline. I needed to get started because I wasn’t sure how to make it happen. I started with a stack of t-shirts on Thursday morning.

The goal was to use one shirt from each year that 50 Bikes for 50 Kids occurred to eventually make a wall hanging. By the end of the day, I had this arrangement:

On Friday I went to a great nearby quilting store, Fabric Garden, and bought two fabrics, a white to narrowly frame each piece and a basic black cotton called “grunge” in the color “little black dress.” I cut, sewed, and pressed for the rest of the afternoon and evening.

Saturday, a second trip to Fabric Garden to buy more fabric for the backing and binding. I made great progress only to be stalled by not having a big enough piece of batting. I bought the batting on Sunday and started the minimal quilting by machine – LOTS of pinning.

On Monday, I sewed on the binding, folded it over and hand stitched it on the reverse side. Done!

Next, I will deliver to Becky at Jibe – it’s a gift for Abbey Stumpf who brought the 50 Bikes for 50 Kids idea to Jibe and organized the event each year it happened. She now lives in Virginia with her husband and children.

Latest sewing project: 25 eggs.

A new location for the carrots:

Not much going on last week beyond riding my bike – 122 miles! I decided to make some carrots after I found all the fabric in my stash. A week ago, I sent Phyl in Montana this picture:

She asked me what they were for. I have no idea. Yet. By this evening, I was almost done. So close to being done that the next project is waiting in the background.