I have been hanging out at home this weekend, being super productive (in between wasting time on facebook and napping on the couch with kitty) so here are a few snaps of what I'm doing:
Some blocks from a pinwheel quilt I've been working on for some time - mostly very pale blues with a few very pale greens (upper right) and that one mostly white print with big pink flowers on it (bottom center). I've got 64 - 8" blocks finished, I was considering making it a queen size but lost steam when I realized that not only would I have to sew 36 more blocks, but also that a 64" square quilt is really quite a lovely size. I'll lay out the blocks once I get this one off the quilt wall:
this is an incredibly crappy snapshot, but you get the idea. The strips are 6" wide - they are the leftovers from the squares I cut for Mikey's Christmas quilt (below). I had a giant stack of strips left and decided to sew them together. The horizontal asphalt grey strips are 1" and the vertical ones are 1.5". It's 41"x44" right now, if I remember correctly, and I think I'll just sew 4" grey borders on and piece a multicoloured sashing from more of the Asian prints - though I may give in and put a double border on it (grey, print strips, grey) to make it more of a lap size. Your input is welcome!
Here is a sweet little vignette of my sewing table - I did some improvisational piecing from bits I had left over from a homespun quilt I made - that one did turn out to be queen sized - and I'm quite pleased with the results. It's 22"x25", a large doll quilt size. I made one about that size for my cat since I just had a few squares left from a quilt I made for Monica a few years ago, and I loved them together, so I just made a mini quilt. The cat thinks it is the best thing ever. She hides toys under it and then dives under to attack them, or just fights with it. It's cute.
This is the quilt we made Mikey for Christmas - I started it YEARS ago (we won't attempt to count) and Mom basically finished it for me (last bit of the sashing, borders, sandwiching, quilting, machine stitching the binding) so I could take it up to Whistler to give to Mike. It turned out HUGE - Anna is standing on a chair, on tiptoes, holding it up as tall as possible, on the left side of the photo there, and it's still puddling on the floor a tiny bit. HUGE.
Also I am knitting a hat, and made a pie (check it out at the hot buns bakery) and got a lot of sleep. Excellent weekend.
Love,
Abby
