WIP Wednesday: April 27, 2011

I haven’t had much time to sew this past week. Here’s what I have been able to accomplish. Check out Freshly Pieced for more WIP Wednesday goodness.

Current Projects:

Matching Floralgraphix Pillows

The hexagon pillow stills needs borders but I’m really close on the plus pillow.

Call Me Crazy {4/42 blocks complete}

Once I got the hang of it, I found that I really enjoy improvisational piecing!

Yellow Brick Road Baby Quilt #2

All five rows are sewn together. I might not add borders although the pattern calls for them.

On hold:

Yellow Brick Road Baby Quilt #1

Do I have to add borders? I might not add borders to this one either.

Forest Friends Embroidery

Still no progress.

Scrappy Nine-Patch {8/70 blocks complete}

Haven’t touched this one recently.

WIP Wednesday: April 20, 2011

Here’s what I have been working on this past week. Check out Freshly Pieced for more WIP Wednesday goodness.

Current Projects:

Call Me Crazy {1/42 blocks complete}

I’ve always been intrigued by crazy quilts, so when I saw this pattern from FunQuilts, I decided to give it a try. This pattern is from the December 2007 issue of American Patchwork and Quilting. I gathered a bunch of blue-on-blue fabric, made one block, decided I would make the whole quilt and then promptly forgot about it. This week, I pulled it out and started working on it again. It is slow going, as improvisational piecing is new to me.

Yellow Brick Road Baby Quilt #2

Four of the five rows are sewn together.

On hold:

Yellow Brick Road Baby Quilt #1

The next step is adding the borders.

Matching Floralgraphix Pillows

The hexagon pillow needs borders and I’ve barely begun on the pluses pillow.

Forest Friends Embroidery

I would be more motivated to work on this if I could find the frames I need.

Scrappy Nine-Patch {8/70 blocks complete}

Scraps are a quilter’s best friend. Whenever I use scraps, I feel like I’m using free fabric, even though I paid for it at some point. I really enjoyed reading the posts about this Scrappy Nine-Patch quilt over on crazy mom quilts. It was a one-a-day quilt along. I have neither the time nor the dedicated space to sew every day, so I’m going at a much slower pace. When I do get to work on this quilt, I make two blocks at a time.

Second Finish of 2011: Drawstring Bags

Sometimes when I’m working on bigger projects, I will throw in a small, quick project just so that I can feel the satisfaction of a finish. A while ago, I saw a tutorial for drawstring bags over at Pink Penguin and just had to make some. I made two patchwork bags from the tutorial and loved them. Then I got the bright idea to use drawstring bags instead of wrapping paper when giving gifts. Making patchwork bags would take too long, so I adapted the pattern to suit my needs. I use 2-3 fabrics for each bag, I make them a little bigger and I developed a different technique for the casing. I made a bunch for Christmas and was very pleased with them.

I bought the fabric for these bags while on a trip to visit extended family and made the bags within a month. For me, that’s a really quick turn-around for using up fabric. Sometimes I buy fabric for a specific project and it sits around for years. The bag on the right, made from Central Park fabric, has become my embroidery bag. The bag on the left, made from Sunkissed fabric, will be used to wrap a gift.