WIP Wednesday --Something New

I actually worked on something else other than the rug and yo-yo's this past week, believe it or not.
Actually, I didn't do anymore work on the rug other than adding more selvage strips to my bag.

I am still keeping up with my 365 of making 3 yo-yo's each day.  My pile of fabric still doesn't seem to be going down, and I'm getting more anxious to start putting them together.

Sit n' Sew at the quilt shop was a go and I actually got some work in on my paper-pieced stars for my guild challenge.  Not much, and I sure hope to find time soon to get my sewing machine out at home to work on them some more.  If I don't, this project will not be done by the end of April!

Yesterday was sewing day at church.  This project is not part of my 17 in 2017, but something I can work on for awhile at church.  Someone donated a box of these polyester squares.  Some were already made into 9 patches, and hand sewn.  I'm going to attempt to finish them off into a top by continuing the hand sewing.

And here are a couple of pictures from our community service work day at quilt guild that I wanted to share.  We finished over 30 quilts that day in addition to a large number of items that were already completed and given to First Call for Help.  With so many quilts we decided to send some of them to other agencies as well.
I wish we could have more days like this.

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Jo's Country Junction:  http://www.joscountryjunction.com/

WIP Wednesday-- Same Old Same Old

I skipped out on my post last Wednesday as we spent the morning at the Salvation Army getting our taxes done.
You might be bored anyway since I am still just working on the same two things!  With any luck, the weather will hold up this month and the monthly sit n' sew at the quilt shop won't end up canceled this month like it was last month.  The project I intended to work on last month is still in the bagged I packed it in.

In the meantime, I am still plugging away making 3 yo-yo's a day.  My pile of fabric in the box has to be going down, but it sure doesn't seem like it!   I plan to start putting the yo-yo's together at a quilt retreat at the end of April.  Surely by then I will have most all of these made.

More work done on the selvage toothbrush rug.  I just might be done with this in the next couple weeks or so.  I do hope so as I have other rugs on my list of 17 in 2017 to finish.

You can see my list of 17 in 2017 in the left side bar.   I have no idea when I can get back to the soscrappy challenge.  Here it is February and I've not looked to see what this month's color is!

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WIP Wednesday -- Just A Rug and Yo-Yo's

Unfortunately I never did find time yet to get my sewing machine out and get to work on the paper-piecing for the quilt guild challenge.  Hopefully Friday I can finally get it out!

I am still keeping up with my 365 challenge of making 3 yo-yo's a day.

I also did more work on the selvage rug.

My 17 in 2017 challenge list is to the right.  If you missed my post where I picture them all and would like to check it out, you can find that HERE.

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WIP Wednesday--17 in 2017 Challenge

Last week while going through the links at Esther's Blog, I seen one that talked about joining in on the 17 in 2017 Challenge.  Of course I had to check it out.
The challenge is to complete 17 UFO's in 2017.
I couldn't wait to hop on board with the challenge as it may be just what I need to finally get some long awaited UFO's done.
I had to search back some years here on my blog to find pictures of my unfinished projects!!

It was kind of a hard choice to figure out just which 17 of the numerous UFO's!!

Click the button for more information on the challenge.

Now here are my 17 UFO's I've chosen to finish this year for the challenge:

#1 The yo-yo valances and table runner for the special order

#2 Selvage toothbrush rug

#3 Black and White with a little Red quilt

#4 Lexington quilt

#5 Crazy colors quilt

#6 Arkansas Crossroads quilt

#7 Rainbow string quilt

#8 Doll Bed Sets

#9 St Patricks yo-yo table topper

#10 Prayer shawl

#11 T-shirt latchhook rug

#12 Five and Dime quilt

#13 Charming Stars quilt

#14 Hexagon quilt (well, I can at least pick it up and work on it again throughout the year!)

#15 T-shirt toothbrush rug

#16 Scrappy Rectangles quilt

#17 Paper pieced stars guild challenge

I won't be listing my UFO's in each WIP Wednesday post like I have in the past.  Instead I will reference back to this post each week.

I still haven't gotten the codes yet for the blogs that I link to each week, but here they are:

Esther's Blog

Adiyday

and now  17 in 2017 by Pomegranate and Chintz