Design Wall Monday & Goals

... make that "Design Floor" Monday.  My yellow project - a table runner - is pin-basted and awaiting quilting.  The question to answer this week is: How do I quilt this?  I already have a hand quilting project underway, and it is unlikely that I will get this finished this month if I hand quilt it - plus I will do boring things like stitch-in-the-ditch.  The fabrics are mostly florals and vines.  The background fabric is the same wow roses that I used to make my girls' dresses for my sister's wedding.  I'm a very inexperienced machine quilter, so I can't do anything too exciting, but I think I will go that route - I can't wait to see this finished.  My sister already said she wants it early!

Now that I've seen my drawing translated into fabric, I can see all kinds of exciting variations on the color layout for this.  I think I'll continue to try variations for my upcoming monochromatic quilt challenges as well.

As to goals:
1. Determine a quilting strategy for the table runner and begin to execute it.  Make the binding for the table runner.
2. Hand quilt another row on the Pink Things top.
3. Finish my UFO #6 - I have one more binding to hand stitch, and I'm done!
4. Make at least the 43 necessary buttons for the cassock I am making for a friend.  He's being ordained to the diaconate in May, and we finally got his measurements sorted out, so it's time for me to get busy.
5. I should begin washing all my new fabric.

And mending?  I did enough last week that the pile is no longer threatening to take over my nook, so I can forget about it for another week.

Check out the other design walls for inspiration at Judy's place!

from the room of Zana's Ninis,
katie z.