Solo Finish A Long

The second quarter of my self imposed solo finish a long (well it's solo unless someone wants to join me!).  I've got half my finishes done and half lingering somewhat, so here goes.

1. Woodland Crochet A Long Blanket - This CAL run by Lucy of Attic 24 finished a long time ago and I also stopped to knit other things so it had a rest.  Back onto it last night so will carry on in spite of the heat to get this done by end July/beginning August is my aim.  As it is its length is 45", 113 cm.

This is laid in half lengthwise and it really looks colourful, but see all those ends that need darning in!!  I should have done this as I've gone on, but hey ho sewing all those will keep me busy! So this goes on to Quarter 3

2.  Is the 16 square block quilt.  I've done this in teenage/boy colours of black/grey and orange/mustard and I like the colour combination.  The blocks have been arranged but not sewn together yet.  I have quite a few 3.5" strips left to deal with too, what could I do with them?  This is added to the list for Quarter 3.

3. Are the pouches - done and given to Project Linus for their charity sales table. I have done some more quilted squares and this afternoon I bought some more zips as all I had in my collection were short zips so I may have to do some that will use short zips.  But the pic below are some of the ones that were made from a couple of months ago.  So these are ongoing.

4. Was correcting a wallhanging, which is now finished and has been hanging in our hall for a while now.  I wanted to make a tree to go on this and I did it, labelled it and everything! A finish!

The story about this wallhanging is here. How I finished this off is here.

5  What I will also be doing are a few projects to gift to my room mate on Sewing Shinding which is a retreat that I will be going to in September in Telford (on my own).   I've been away as part of a group before but never on my own.  A new adventure and something really different and I am really looking forward to it.

My room mate is also a first time retreater who is retired so I am guessing a similar age to me but it'll be fun getting to know her.  So that is a new item(s) to add to my Finish A Long list.

6. Also new to the list is the Kingfisher Stitch a Long run by Jodi of Tales of Cloth.  She is an Australian  quilter who specialises is English Paper Piecing (EPP) as is a good way using up scraps into hexies and sewing them onto diamond shapes, which makes for an interesting quilt.  Its hand sewing and I'm often in need of a portable project.  This is another add to the list.

7. Talking of which another hand stitching project, that could be nearing its end, the way I am going with this is the Kantha iris kit.  I'm hoping for a finish this month.  Added to the Finish A Long list.

There will be more makes along the way as well as these items and already I am going to explore making more clothing for myself.  Yesterday I made a skirt from fabric that I bought at Sandown.

As well as having an invisible zip, making use of my new zipper foot, I also drafted out a pocket and it worked!

So that's my list for this quarter.