WIP Wednesday {1.19.2011}

It's Wednesday, and that means its time to share the current works in progress for the week!  I actually have quite a few things that are in various stages of complete-ness...this is a new phenomenon for me, I am typically a "start one project and see it through to the end" kind of gal, but I'm finding myself with quite a few things going on.  It's making me a little stressed, I don't like leaving things unfinished, but it is nice to be able to bounce from one project to the next.

First and formost is my very beginning planning stages of my doll quilt for DQS10.  These are just a few ideas that have popped into my head. 

My partner is a fan of modern fabrics, so I'm thinking of cutting into my Central Park fabric, plus a few other goodies in blues, greens, yellows and oranges with some neutral solids (grey/white perhaps?) mixed in.

As for design ideas:

A mini strings quilt, I'm picturing it with white as the solid center stripe, and then trying to keep each "diamond" in one color.  I'm thinking each individual block would be along the lines of 3" with teeny tiny strips...

Or a circle block mini quilt, I'm thinking of doing each quarter of the circle in a different print of one color, agin using the above colors and I was thinking of doing the backgrounds of the blocks in Kona Ash, Charcoal and White.  Maybe??

Or some pieced hexies in some sort of color patterns?  Or none of the above.  If you were my partner, which would you like??

My next WIP is Rachel from psiquilt's postage stamp quilt along.  So far I have my strip sets sewn together...16 all together, whew!  For our next directions, we are to cut these strip sets into 2 1/2 inch strips and sew them together into 48 blocks for next week.  Eek!  I'd really like to keep up with this quilt along, but I'm not so sure I'll be able to get all the blocks completed by then. 

I am really liking how the colors all came together, this will sure be one vibrant quilt!

Lastly for this week is the beginning stages of planning my potholders for the potholder pass.  Again the theme is monotone, and my partner picked grey.  I dug through my stash, and added a few greys I picked up at my LQS, and these are the fabrics I'm  thinking of working with:

And finally I have the end stages of my mug rug for the scrappy mug rug swap

and back:

I'm really torn about the binding.  I think at this point I'm leaning towards repeating the blue and white cris cross fabric that I used in the mug rug...I just cant seem to find anythign that I absolutely love though.  I certainly have time.  I'll just sit and admire it for a while until I figure something out!

Well I certainly have enough to keep me busy this week, and hopefully next week there will be more "completed projects" to show!

Be sure to head over to Freshly Pieced and check out all the awesome WIPs!!