DWM - Shoe Boxes

I took down my Saturday Sampler...I have a plan for it, but it's going to be on hiatus for the summer. Plenty of time for fine tuning on paper.

Meanwhile, in between catching up on laundry, emails, and vacuuming four days worth of cat hair, I did some quick piecing.

LOVE these little boxes.

The rest of the week, I'm going to be quilting, binding, and sewing clothes (not to mention packing!) so it was good to start the week with a bit of piecing.

Linked:

Patchwork Times

My Precious Quilt Along

Felt Food Friday - Peas

Just a quickie, late-Friday-night posting! We're at a wedding and I'm on my husband's laptop, and the keys are not in the right places.

Peas! Both sugar snap and shell-able.

Based on this tutorial, but with cheater peas. I cut apart a extra-fuzzy pipe cleaner and rolled it into balls.

WiP/FMC - Forward Progress

When you stay home all week, you actually get stuff done! Surprising, I know. My house is pretty clean, too. And I'm caught up on paperwork.

Fifteen Minute Challenge 

I opened the charm packs I won for being awesome at the FMC, and divvied them up between boy/girl/maybe either.

 Vetted my decisions with the Dude. "What's wrong with the flowers? Flowers aren't 'girl.' I like flowers. And the vines are alien arms." Boys...

Anyway, once I figure out the proper number needed, these will be hotel-kitted-up with the white for reverse bowties.

I also finished the toy-border-four-patch-pinwheel kit, and started pulling tops and backing in preparation for packing.

Finishes!

That's right - plural!

Unnamed Baby Girl Quilt

Granny Squares

I pulled them both out of the dryer last night, so they need better pictures {and not in the dim morning light} before getting blogged.

Non-Quilt-Along

Made the top of my husband's offensive t-shirt quilt.

Quilt-Alongs
Fat Quarter Stars - 6/12 blocks - none - I should really toss this into the packing box.
LQS Saturday Sampler 2012 - 12/36

 LQS Saturday Sampler 2011 - still working away at the center

Swoon A Little, Swoon A Lot - sneak peek! All three rows are assembled, the vertical sashing is pieced and pinned to the other two rows, and the border fabric is ironed and awaiting final measurements.

My Precious Quilt Along - I unrolled my honey bun! And nothing horrible happened!

My original plan was to do a log cabin - after all, they're 1.5" strips. But after examining the fabrics, there wasn't enough neutral and contrast - I could only get 16 blocks, and that was with using stripes that were barely neutral. That left ten lonely strips!

So I decided on this elongated box thing. Two strips yield two blocks, alternating where the contrast goes. They're all cut and sorted for easy leaders/enders. 

Untouched This Week:

Chunky Log Cabin

St. Paul's Cross 

Awaiting Binding:

Big Blue - the status of this is apparently making my sister nervous. So I cut the 450" of binding. It will probably take me a week to press it, anyway.

Adoption:

Application Submitted - 2/12 

Home Study - in progress

USCIS paperwork - in progress

New Projects: 2

Completed Projects: 2

In Progress: 9

Linked:

Work in Progress Wednesday

Life in Pieces' Fifteen Minute Challenge

DWM - Saturday Sampler

Not much of a change from last week...

I did piece the little side pieces with the cream...but... Mother is bigger than Sister, which means the whole thing is going to be slightly off-center, and the little side piece between Sister and Daughter just doesn't fit. Ugh.

In order to make the center bigger {and centered!}, I'll have to sash the blocks. Which means ordering the cream. Which, since this is last year's BOM...not so easy to find.

Luckily I have a nice long plane ride to a wedding this weekend, so I plan on using that time to come up with a comprehensive plan so that I can order the proper amount of fabric.

Linked:

Patchwork Times

BOMs Away!

Sunday Stash Report - Week 19

Finishes!

{Almost.}

Binding is attached to the Granny Squares. Binding is prepped for the Unnamed Baby Girl Quilt. Both will be done by this afternoon, so I'm counting them as out. 

I purchased the backing for Granny, but the binding for both came from my stash. So, woo! Numbers are going in the right direction!

Used this Week: 3.51

Used Year to Date: 49.15

Added this Week: 1.25

Added Year to Date: 101.83

Net Used for 2012: (52.68) yards

Linked:
Patchwork Times

Felt Food Friday - Lemon & Lime Slices

Second attempt at these, and they're pretty cute.

A little more hand stitching than I usually do, but I needed something like that this week.

Tutorial from Helping Little Hands. I see a few more of these in my future.

In the interest of full disclosure, here's my attempt from the Simplicity 2445 pattern.

Yeah, I don't know how that one was going to work out.

And are we celebrating May the Fourth {be with you}?

Of course!

WiP/FMC/Just 3 - It's May...

It's May?

Let me rephrase that.

IT'S MAY?!?!

I'm leaving my stash in 3.5 weeks.

I'm moving into a hotel in four weeks.

I'm not ready.

I need more kits.

I need a suitcase for my sewing machine. Which sewing machine am I taking, the light one or the workhorse?

I need to buy a little cutting mat and ruler.

I need more kits.

Can I take a rotary cutter on an airplane?

How am I going to fit everything in the car, with the cats, too? {The Dude doesn't need to pack any toys, right?} I won't have room for both sewing machines, which means I have to haul the heavy one on the airplane.

I need more kits.

How many bags can I check? 

Fifteen Minute Challenge

I continued cutting willy-nilly until Saturday, when I sat down and made a list. Then I made a list of the hotel kits that still need work. Then I made a list of the fabric that still needs to be purchased.

It's a loooooooong list.

But at least I've got something to work with now. 

Just Three

My April goals were the three baby quilts due in May. One, Airplane Dreams, is completely finished.
The other two are in the mostly-quilted stage.

Unnamed Baby Girl Quilt - 75% quilted. I'd show off the quilting, but, well, I wouldn't want to make the cat move.

Granny Squares {mine} - quilting in progress. I already echoed every block. Trying to decide where to add more - in the sashing? {edge-to-edge!} or in the blocks? {more thread burying...}

For May, my Just Three are my husband's Inappropriate T-Shirt Quilt, the back of my cousin's t-shirt quilt, and finishing the heck out of my hotel kits. {And moving into the hotel. After driving to Virginia. With a kid and two cats.}

Quilt-Alongs
Fat Quarter Stars - 6/12 blocks - none
LQS Saturday Sampler 2012 - 12/36

 LQS Saturday Sampler 2011 - still working away at the center

Swoon A Little, Swoon A Lot - my last two Swoon blocks. And that brown star? Every single stripe is going the same direction. Oh yeah. It's time to assemble! {Anyone else just yell "Avengers Assemble!"? No? Just me? Okay then...}

Untouched This Week:

Chunky Log Cabin

St. Paul's Cross 

Awaiting Binding:

Big Blue

Adoption:

Application Submitted - 2/12 

Home Study - held up by background checks from Texas and Washington. Why do we move so much??

USCIS paperwork - in progress

New Projects: 0

Completed Projects: 0

In Progress: 11

Linked:

Work in Progress Wednesday

Life in Pieces' Fifteen Minute Challenge
Just Three