and I suffer from enjoy every minute of an addiction to starting new quilt projects.
new enablers followers are always welcome :)
less than 24 hours from inspiration to a completed top {on the right} & backing {on the left}. I think this is a new record for me, even if the finished quilt will only be 24 inches square :)
All the fabrics are left over from a Hungry Caterpillar quilt I made for one of my sons. You can read about that here.
I must apologize for the completely rubbish photos, but I had to take them in indoor lighting. It has been cloudy and rainy here, and will be for the next week if the weatherman is telling the truth.
the color should be a navy blue, but you get the idea, right?
I loved doing the Sashiko stitches, it was a relaxing project to take out and about. Most of it was done during little league baseball games :)
I made an envelope closure on the back of the pillow with the kitty fabric I bought last April from the quilt show I went to with my Mom and SIL. The pillow is 18" square. If I can get some better pictures another day, I will share them with you.
Do you remember the quilt I accidentally started? {those innocent looking layer cakes just hanging around the sewing room are like WIP list landmines waiting to explode!}
It all started with a layer cake I won last year, and now have 168 HSTs.
It was surprising just how many episodes of Arrested Development it took to get them all trimmed up! {season 4 starting in 6 days! whoo-hoo!}
This fabric is not my usual color/style preference {although I do find them quite lovely}, but they go great in my living room. I'm not sure what that says about me? :)
Linking up to Design Wall Monday! Because Monday is just so Monday, and we could all use a party to liven things up a bit, right? :)
I have also made progress on a couple quilt WIPs, but they aren't very photo worthy yet. Soon, I hope :)
One new quilt was started in April, completely by accident. No, really, I had every intention of finishing at least two quilts before starting another. Then one day I was cleaning up my sewing room, and I was thinking it would help clear out my closet if this layer cake wasn't just sitting there unused. I had that sucker cut down to 5" squares and was turning them into HSTs before it hit me - I just started a new quilt. Oops ;)
My project was inspired by {this tutorial} from the Moda Bake Shop by Trish of Notes of Sincerity. I used a charm pack of Dream On fabrics by Moda, a pretty blue floral flannel from Joanns for the backing, and about five yards of pom pom trim to sew into the side seams. I wanted to lengthen the scarf and make it like the infinity style. {I should probably mention I have never made an infinity scarf before}
This is my scarf, sewn with right sides together with a small opening to turn the scarf right side out. Aside from taking forever to pin the sides together with the pom pom trim {and having to redo one side}, everything was going great up to this point. Then I turned my scarf right side out, and got...
a fully lined tube instead of a scarf. It looks like one of those giant worms from Tremors :)
I turned the scarf wrong side out again, got out my dressmaking shears, and cut through the scarf. After sewing the raw edges, I now have a scarf. Not an infinity scarf, but a wearable scarf. With a whole lot of pom pom going on :)
My 7 year old said he would help me get some pictures. Um, yeah.
This is the only picture he took that actually had me in it and wasn't blurry. Unfortunately, my eyes were half closed and I was in the middle of telling him to stop running around in the tree fort with my camera & stop taking pictures of his brother swinging from the tree like a monkey. No way am I putting that weird pic of me on here. But hey, the scarf looks good!
I like my scarf, and I think it turned out great in the end even though it isn't exactly what I had planned. But honestly, I think I liked the man eating worm version best ;)
Be sure to visit the other stops on today'sschedule for more pom pom fun!
This little stack of pretties is winging it's way to Cindy of Fluffy Sheep Quilting. Most will travel on, to happy new homes. I wonder what exciting, crafty plans await them? One of them will return, with 55 new friends. A rainbow of possibilities :)
