WIP Wednesday: Have WIPs, but no machine

Oh, man. And I was making such good progress on my WIPs too.

On Monday evening, while I was teaching my Modern Sampler class, my wonderful (only six-month-old) Janome Horizon 7700 freaked out on me and wouldn't do anything but give me an E1 error code. I took it in to the service technician, who said it was probably just a popped fuse—an easy fix. But he called back a few hours later and .... let's just say it's not going to be such an easy fix after all. And I was just thinking about how I needed to do a full-scale review of my machine, since I've had her for almost exactly six months now. Well, needless to say, now the review will have to wait to see what happens next. This seems like it will be a good test of how Janome stands behind its products and its customers. I've heard good things about Janome's customer service, so I'm optimistic they'll come through for me. Stay tuned.

Anyway. WIPs. I did make good progress, prior to Monday!

Made lots of progress on my Summer Sampler Series blocks for the Modern Sampler class that I'm teaching. I'm making two sets of blocks, since I like to show a finished block at the start of class, and I have to do some demonstrating during class as well.

And here are some of my students' Mosaic blocks from last week! Can I just say how proud I am of these ladies? Three of them had never even made half-square triangles before, but check out those points. They rocked it. (Thanks to Anne from Material Matters for the photo!)

Speaking of the Summer Sampler, I made major progress on the Summer Sampler Series Block Anthology. I heard from many of you that you're excited about having the series in a PDF format, so Katie, Faith, and I are looking forward to making it available! And seeing as I have no sewing machine, that might happen even earlier than I thought. Silver linings, people. Silver linings. : )

And I got my Rebel Amish-inspired baby quilt top finished, at long last. Now I just need to get it quilted. When I get my machine back, anyway.

Oh, and don't forget: My Modern Quilts From the Blogging Universe giveaway is open through next Tuesday! I'm giving away an ebook version AND two physical copies, so pop over here to enter.

Whatcha workin' on? Here are the rules for the linky:

1. Link up any post from the past week that features at least one unfinished work-in-progress (WIP).

2. Somewhere in your post, you must link back here to my blog. (Or grab my WIP Wednesday button for your sidebar.)

3. Comment on at least a few of the other WIP Wednesday links. Because really, what fun is a linky party without comments?