April progess...

Finally finished the top :)




Backing fabric that KEM picked.




Just to give you an idea of the scale of the print in relation to the top.




I got most of Naveen's Halloween quilt cut aside from the sashing and started piecing a few blocks.




Baby boy ABC quilt. Rows are finished, just working on the sashing and attaching the rows together. This baby is due in June... and as you can see, it will be more of a toddler/little boy quilt... or maybe a huge quilt to lay on when he starts to learn to roll/crawl :) I got committed to making it big due to the size of the ABC panel's squares and the pattern I picked. I have the same fabrics in pink and might do a girl one too...

Hello Betty Flange Binding Completed

Finish and Zig Zag

Finally finished the binding the Berry Delicious Jelly Girl quilt. I have 2 friends expecting babies this summer... hopefully at least one will be a girl.








I had a bunch of white and black caroler charm squares left plus some yardage, so I decided to make a zig zag quilt with the left overs.

KEM's Halloween quilt rows...

I finally got all the rows done for KEM's Halloween quilt. And the top 8 rows are fully connected. I'm going with a different pattern for NEM's, but same fabrics except different sashing fabric. This one got too boring, though I like how it looks. I think NEM will be lucky if he gets his by 2012 :) I want to straight line quilt this one by myself... but basting it is going to a be a total pain since I don't have a great space to lay it out that isn't carpeted...

Binding experimentation...

I started working on the Hello Betty binding. I read a tutorial a while back on a flange(sp?) / piped binding and thought I'd give it a try. I like how it looks, however, next time I need to remember to increase the width of my binding strips by 1/8th of an inch otherwise the binding is too tight especially at the corners because of the excess fabric from the flange.

February 12...

When I started this I just pulled the solid yellow from my stash. However I miscalculated when i added one more row of blocks to the quilt and I now realize that I don't have enough for a 4 inch yellow border. I'm leaning towards buying some more... the other option would be to shrink the border to 2.5 - 3 inches. It's a moda bella solid, so it should be easy to find. But I don't know exactly which online store I got it from. My only worry is I would get it and it wouldn't be a perfect match b/c it was from a different dye lot...









Neptune Jelly Girl binding progress...

Pastel projects...

Well, I still haven't gotten the binding on, but I did cut off all the excess batting and backing...





I'm working on a baby boy quilt using the boyish fabrics from a "Love U" jelly roll.






I got quite a bit done on the Verna quilt top. 36 blocks made, pressed, squared to 9x9 inches and sashing cut. The pattern has a 5 blocks by 6 blocks arrangement. I was going to make it 6 x 6 but then changed my mind to keep it rectangular and go with 5 x 7 blocks.