WIP Wednesday

The Fabulous Felicity is hosting WIP Wednesday this week. Felicity is one of my favorite blogging buddies. Seriously--check out that fabulous mini quilt of my blog header there on the sidebar, done by none other than Felicity herself! I nearly fainted when I opened that package!

So what do I have this week? Nothing but a bevy of  projects in various stages, at least two of which need to be completely done by this time next week!

This will be winging its way to Minnesota next week. Nearly done. One of the few quilts I have done from start to finish all by myself. Which is kind of weird considering I have been quilting for nearly twenty years. All that remains is  hand sewing the binding to the back. I wish I were proficient at machine quilting. I'm not. I hope my friend understands and likes the quilt anyway...let's just call the straight-line quilting "organic." That should do it. I'm from California. Everything is organic out here...

This is still in the "I'm just a set of blocks..." phase. And yet, a week from today, it needs to be completely ready for the big Project Gingham reveal. 

This was sent off for the QuiltCon block challenge. I wonder if I will get disqualified because I do not belong to a Modern Quilt Guild.

This is a block for Tiffany in the Stash Trad bee. I love it so much that I had a hard time putting it in the mail. If you are in a bee with me and ask for an "explosion of color," this is what you might get.Actually, I have the swirly fabric in a lot of colors, and now that I've made this block, I'm envisioning a whole quilt with a different color swirly fabric in the center of each block, surrounded by Kaffe fabric...but trying not to get distracted (oh, look! something shiny....let me drop what I'm doing to go check it out...) because there are so many other things on my list to do.

And if someone could explain to me why I jumped on the chance to co-host the Fusion Blanket Crochet-Along...(there is a giveaway going on here, here and here)

...only to discover I completely forgot how to crochet!!

So I will leave you with a completed project. It took three different sessions to complete this pillow--fabric choices, the benefits of a design wall, explaining how a sewing machine works (even a 4-year-old boy is fascinated with the needle up-and-down and the automatic thread cutter!), then sewing in small segments to work with short attention spans (blocks in pairs, rows together, and finally the pillow top), but totally worth every.single.minute.

He sat on my lap for the sewing, and most of the time I guided his hands, until he was ready to try a little on his own with very close supervision.

 

The front

The back

The obligatory feet--he took this picture himself--how did he know that this is a requirement??

Zzzzzzzzz......