WIP Wonder

Spring is a difficult time for me to get much quilting done. Typically I'm training for charity bicycling events and tours. This year's Ride the Rockies was the most difficult I've ever done, but now that it's history, I can get back to my sewing machine!

One of my goals last quarter was to finish Ticker Tape II by Ride the Rockies. I'd set up two ticker tape quilts I wanted to complete by June 12, but when my friend Ruthie visited from New Mexico for the Denver National Quilt Festival, I gave one of the quilt sandwiches to her and taught her how to ticker tape.


She may be as addicted as me now! That took one WIP off my list, leaving me with just one to try to get done before the big ride. Snow and rain throughout April and May helped. I finished appliqueing the last flower on my newly renamed Ticker Tape Garden 15 minutes after our ride to the Ride the Rockies start line arrived. Four days after the week-long, 437-mile ride, I'd recovered enough to bind the quilt.


The green (and yellow) solid fabric was leftover from color-coded bandanas I made for girls camp back in 2013. The back of both quilts was crafted from black clearance fabric I'd bought about 15 to 20 years ago probably to make shorts for my kids I never got around to making. The fabric had a faded white stripe down the length of it from sitting too near a window in the fabric shop for too long. When I first bought it, my kids were so young, I thought I could easily cut around the white strip. As they grew, the prospect grew less and less hopeful, but I never had time anyway. I finally got rid of this unloved fabric by using the backside as the back for both the green and the yellow ticker tape quilts. It provided a very attractive linen look, in my opinion.




The flowers are from my scrap pile, which I still haven't made a dent in yet, even though 2.5 quilts have been constructed using nothing but these scraps. I think I see more ticker tape quilts on the horizon. One of the new additions to this quarter's WIP list is a Scrap Vortex variation. Maybe that will eat through a bit of my leftovers.


I had fun playing with an iPhone photo of the quilt back during the four-hour trip to Grand Junction for the start of Ride the Rockies.




And now, for this quarter's list of projects in need of finishes:


1. Hawaiian Compass


2. Snowflake Heartburn


3. Square Robin


4. Leaf Me Alone


5. Welcome to the Jungle


6. Blue Floral Leftovers, the Sequel


7. Long Forgotten


8. Blue Floral


9. Green Batik Leftovers


10. Lizard Toes


11. Turtle Sherbet


12. Skinned


13. Under the Sea


14. Skinned, the Sequel


15. Hexie Booboo


16. Tickled Pink, the Sequel


17. Teal Shadows


18. Gemtones


19. Teabags


20. Goodbye Hollyhock Road


21. Snowflake Strip Bar


22. Charmed by Snowflakes


23. Rainbow Strip Bar


24. Dreaming of a Lavender Christmas


25. Blue Christmas


26. Green Floral Batik Postage Stamps


27. July Special Effects


28. Quilt of Valor


29. Blue Floral Trilogy


30. Lavender Sunrise


31. Giant Dahlia


32. Faded Gems


33. Showcase


34. Scrap Vortex


35. Joel's Baby Blues


36. Heart Strings


37. One More Ticker Tape


38. Arctic Skies
Linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts and Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

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