Elizabeth's Ph.D's: A Finish & An Update

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. –Josh Billings

It's April 11^th and I'm just barely reporting a finish. So what have I been doing? I'm kind of all over the map. I've made three quilts start to finish {Grandpa's Candy Dish, Gracie's Pinwheels and Cozy Posies}, which were on my master list of things to do between January 1 and June 30, but not on my Ph.D list because they weren't started yet.

And I've done a bit of rearranging to my Ph.D list. I planned to count the finish of my Woman's Work appliqué quilt top, but quilt tops don't count as a finish, which I didn't realize when I put this quilt down as one of my Ph.D's. I'm going to have this quilt professionally quilted and even if I were to finish it tomorrow {which is entirely impossible since I'm only half-way finished}, I'm positive I wouldn't have it back from the quilter in time to bind and label before the end of June. So, while I still plan to have the top finished and get it to the quilter by June 30^th, I'm going to take it off my Ph.D list and substitute another quilt in it's place. I think that is fair. I rearranged my list {and e-mailed Myra about it} before I finished the substitute quilt, so I think it should be OK to count for the challenge.

My substitute quilt is called Magic. You can see more photos, details and a link to the tutorial I used for this quilt at my blog.

I'm only listed for three Ph.D's in the sidebar, but in my first post here, I changed my number to four. I've got one finished now {hooray!} and I've got the top finished on my husband's t-shirt quilt. I hope to get the quilting done on that in the next couple of weeks. I still plan on getting the Pinwheel Sampler and the Snowball Quilt finished, as well as a couple of other quilts that aren't started yet. It is going to be a busy few months, but in the words of that Little Red Engine, I think I can, I think I can!