Tuesday, March 29, 2016

What's on Your Design Wall? (or Design Floor, or Design Bed)

Do you do "something" in your sewing room every single day?  I travel a lot for work and sometimes I have handwork to take along and complete....sometimes not.  Last week was a very heavy travel, work-with-clients week: In 5 days, drove over 1,000 miles, 4 different clients, 3 different hotels.  I did not do any type of sewing the entire week.  When I returned, there were Easter activities, church and celebrations.

So, I've picked up again this week.


I'm working on a baby quilt for my niece (whose shower is fast approaching.)   This is actually the back.  The pattern started out as a adaptation of "Fresh as a Daisy" from the book Welcome Baby but I had to pick it up off my "design floor" when The Babes arrived and could not get them back in order... so, it is what it is.

The front was a piece of fabric that was just too cute to cut.  It is "Meet The Gang" by Marisa and Creative Thursday for Andover Fabrics.

Too cute, is it not?











I'm still plugging away on the Splendid Sampler 100 Blocks Quilt Along.

I left off on block number 9 and they are now on block 13.  There are a few I don't particularly care for.  Then it hit me!  There are 100 blocks.... if you don't care for one, skip it....What a Thought!

Here is what I have so far:




A couple of the blocks I liked so much I made them twice!

I think I'm going to give this quilt to my sister (I have 7 sisters so if  any of them are reading this blog, they won't know WHICH sister...tee he)

 It's not too late to start.  Good practice for various quilting techniques.




And, just last night I decided I wanted to make the first block of the Gypsy Wife.

I liked this pattern the very first time I saw it, which was at a Desert Lilies quilt show in Yuma, AZ, probably 3 or 4 years ago.


I picked up the pattern at the Road to California quilt show this past year.  It's a great way to use up scraps.

There you have it...three UFOs (by far not the ONLY UFOs I have.)
So, What are you working on?  More than one at at time?

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