I like to dream about having abundant sewing time and consequently make absurdly long lists of things I want to sew. Therefore, I give to you the laughably ambitious list of what I hope to sew in the 2nd quarter of 2017 (i.e. April – June).

A little zippy pouch for Ellie, using the Noodlehead tutorial I’ve used so many times before (as requested by her after seeing the one I sewed for her cousin):

A zippy wallet and a matching Makers Tote for myself, both also Noodlehead patterns, in fabric matching my Sewing Circle Tote and my Sidekick Tote.  I will be so deliciously, nerdily matchy-matchy!

Two totes for Bmore Bags, a fundraising effort for the House of Ruth (fabric and pattern provided to me):

A cover for the little cabinet in our guest room bathroom. We don’t like the way the fake glass looks (and especially don’t like the scallops) so I’m going to use this fabric to make a very simple whole cloth quilt to put on the front (probably with Velcro).

I need to add the words, “HE IS RISEN!” to the back of our Happy Birthday bunting so that we can use it for Easter too. Obviously, I need to do this ASAP. I’m going to use Wonder-Under to fuse the letters on. When I made this last fall, I purposely made the back with those greens so that I could make this side for Easter and then forgot to actually do it. Oops.

I’m going to turn this in-progress four-block New York Beauty into a very fancy cafe-style curtain for our downstairs bathroom. I’m going to add some pink paper-piecing butterflies to the back (so we can enjoy them when we’re in our yard).

This fabric perfect matches our dining room/living room paint. I bought it in 2013 (oops) and had planned on making a table runner or place mats with it. Instead (or at least to start with in Q2), I want to make napkin rings, four total, each with one of our initials, in the hopes of being able to use our cloth napkins a bit longer (and reduce laundry).

Also for our guest room bathroom, these English paper pieced hexies need to be quilted onto background fabric and turned into a curtain/decorative work of art. I really should be able to finish this in not much time. I already did all the hard work! That blue Kona swatch in the middle is the color I’m planning on using for the background. It matches the accent wall in our bathroom.

Finally, this seems pretty silly to add but I do want to finish them: I embellished these store-bought curtains last spring to hang in the upstairs bathrooms of our community association hall. But they’re too long. So I need hem them shorter and also make the hanging pocket at the top bigger. I just want them out of my sewing room!

With the yard work season about to come into full swing, I’ll be glad to get half this list done! 🙂 Wish me luck!