Making Progress

So the quilt is coming along nicely. I officially have all of the 4 square blocks sewn together. For the past few days they have been laid out in the middle of my living room floor while I tried to decide how the pattern should be laid out. (Sorry no photos, I finally cleaned them up this afternoon). So next on the list is cutting out all the sashing pieces and the black borders for all of the smaller squares that are going in between. That will be a job in itself sewing all that together.

On the jewellery front I must admit to being very lazy. :( I seem to be in a bit of a creators block and nothing seems to be going right so I haven't been able to motivate myself into going to the studio as of late. However I do have the day off tomorrow so I will endeavor to make myself go in and get something done. Sales seem to be doing pretty well in Lake Placid so I really need to get some new things made for Antediluvian. Wish me luck!

Bitten by the Quilting Bug

So as I've mentioned in my last post I've set aside my knitting for quilting. Over the past few months I've been making progress on my main project which will be a scrappy twin size bed quilt that I think I'll probably donate to the MCC Relief Sale for next year. I started by going through the fabric I could find that I already had, mostly scraps from my grandmother and my mom. Eventually I decided that I would do diagonal stripes of red, purple, blue and green in various shades and patterns. Then I allowed myself to go pick out some more fabrics from the sale racks of my two favourite fabric stores.

The pattern is a simple 4 pieced square with white lattice. Originally the plan has been to put a 3" white sashing between each block, then I thought it would be nice to but a black edging around the squares between the blocks and then put a black binding around the whole thing. However after laying out what I've done so far this morning I also like the look of the blocks the white lattice makes when you lay them out side by side!



So any ideas for what I should do? Either way I think it's turning out nicely.
While working on the big quilt I couldn't help myself with starting another quilting project and decided to make a quilted pillow for my bed since I still cannot find the vintage pillow cover I did have planned for that spot. Since I was just doing a small pillow I decided to try my hand at something a little more complicated and did a cathedral window on one side.



I used this pattern from Moda Bakeshop to do the Cathedral Window pattern and I was shocked at how much easier it was than I thought! I also decided to make it double sided so I did a bit of strip piecing for the back. I debated about whether I should put a binding on it but I didn't because I couldn't decide on a fabric that would look good on both sides. I'm a little disappointed now that I didn't. Maybe one day I'll take it apart and put one on. Either way I love how it turned out! ^_^

Stay tuned for more of my latest projects!