Wow. Blogging more than once per week! Are you double-taking right now? I know I am. Look at me, actually linking up to Freshly Pieced and talking about projects other than the house! WHAT. CRAZY.
Finished:
So to begin, I'd like to share the project dearest to my heart for a while now, my Sophie Makes Tracks quilt. I started this thing with help from Sel and Claire, inspiration from Jeni over at In Color Order, and spent an embarrassingly long time cutting out and assembling the bear claws. I used only Sophie fabric and I think it turned out just beautifully.
I'm sorry I don't have a better picture! I forgot to snap one while Nanna was here to help look after Piper this morning. (Though my featherbrain is a direct result of the head cold I'm developing, I'm sure.)
The second finish? I finished unpacking. That's right. We have been moved in for less than a month and everything is unpacked. Partly this is due to the fact that we don't have a garage to store stuff in, and partly this can be blamed on my Type-A personality. I won't lie to you. Those boxes made me anxious. Those boxes made me fret. Those boxes had to go. So Monday, they went.
And my third finish was a different type of craft for me. In the whole house we made a conscious decision to have bold, bright wall colors but glossy white trims. On Monday I went out to Bunnings and picked up some cheapy spray paint and tackled the picture frames around some really treasured family paintings, and I had just enough to spray my collection of embroidery hoops, too. Yesterday I hung the paintings and tonight, at the eleventh hour, I put snippets of my favorite fabrics into the hoops and hung them on the dining room wall.
They look pretty nice, don't they? Some really treasured fabrics in there. I'm happy they are on display in still-useful pieces if I ever run all the way out. :)
Works in Progress:
The Mermaid quilt is still churning steadily along. I've sewn all sixty strip-piece blocks, pressed, and starched them. They sound pretty metallic if you thump them but I like my starched blocks to stand up on their own. Kevlar-style quilt blocks are going to be all the rage, I predict. Ahem.
I've been working on a few "improv" blocks to use up the 42 little squares I have.
I can't wait until tomorrow to get my design wall up so I can start laying these out! My in-laws are coming over in the morning so my father-in-law (and his pickup) and I can go to Bunnings, while Piper plays with Nanna! I'm using MDF and a staplegun and a roll of quilt batting but the only difference is, I'm doing it in sections so I can hide it in the nook when company comes over!
Another project I have begun is the Os quilt (from Scrap Basket Sensations). I forgot to include a picture of the cut out/unpieced blocks.
Haha, YIKES, right?
These are a few of the blocks I've already done. I just love how smart and sassy these look.
Stalled projects:
- Handwork (my curved hexagon blocks)
- Garden Fence quilt
- 30s repro tumbler quilt
- My sister W's Swoon quilt
I just need to buckle down and sash the Garden Fence rows. That is it! How sad am I? The 30s quilt is an easy afternoon of chain piecing; I just need to find that afternoon. And I know as soon as I start my sister's Swoon quilt, it'll just roll right along.
And I just can't even find my handwork bag. Where is it! Argh. I put it somewhere really safe...so safe I couldn't find it again, obvs!
Well that's me for the week! I hope to wow you guys next week with something amazing. It's nice to be back in the saddle and working on things at a normal, not-insane pace. And it is really nice to be unpacked. I can finally relax a little bit now! But just a little. Got lots to do still. :)
Have a great week and be sure to link up with Lee!
Cheers!
xx