WIP Wednesday: the one with little progress

Not a very busy week. I'm waiting to take my longarm quilting class this afternoon, so nothing more on the Eternity quilt this week! But expect finishedness next week!

Finished

However, we have one more birthday block - Criss Cross Triangles for Tami:

I ended up making two blocks, mostly because I wanted to see how it looked with the solid red vs. the patterned red.

Work In Progress

A little bit more on the Terrain Challenge!

I doubt I'm going to get it done by the start of December. I'm massively overloaded as it is. -- What have you been working on this week? Have you linked it up at the Linky Party?

Parental Patchwork Presents

This post is very much overdue. I simply haven't had the picture to put it all together.

Having completed my mum's quilt, the "ImpStar" (started about 15 months ago), I figured I should hurry up and finish the stepdad's pillowslips (which my mum asked me to make at least a couple of years ago).

The fabric is Imperial Collection 6, which I accidentally ordered while trying to get hold of more Imperial Collection 7 for Mum's ImpStar quilt. Oops!

The first panel - Fans and Flowers - came with the FQ bundle, but the second panel is entirely unrelated and something I found in the Blue Mountains, at the delightfully-named Picklemouse Corner in Leura, almost a year ago while I was at a writer's retreat.

I spotted it, thought "oh, that could work with the collection" got home and discovered that it pretty much perfectly matched! Don't you love it when a good plan comes together?

Draped over the big body-pillow to get a feel for how it's going to look!

Ready for basting and quilting!

No batting, just the top and two layers of cotton to give it a bit of thickness.

First time I used my quilting gloves! Great for moving the quilt around (although I need a bigger machine arm and a decent platform on which to rest the quilt).

The quilting is not very good. I started with a variation on an Angela Walter FMQ pattern "Tiles" only to realise that it didn't really work for triangles.

So I switched to straight-line quilting with a walking foot. Much easier and a bit more in keeping with the style of the blocks.

Finished body pillow!

And all together now and laid out on the parental bed!

They're very happy with it, and I'm very happy with it. It's all good!

Instagram Friday: the three week table version

Three weeks worth of instagrams, turned into a table for convenience of viewing...

Hope the Americans are having a great Thanksgiving; and hope everyone else is looking forward to an excellent weekend!

WIP Wednesday: the one with catchup

Eternity Quilt

You probably thought this was never going to be done (I thought it was never going to get done), it's been dragging on so long!

But I got the top put together on Saturday afternoon. And there was much rejoicing.

Then it was set it out for basting and quilting.

The 'Eternity' signature of Arthur Stace, ready to go on freezer paper:

The freezer paper ironed on, and the main parts pin-basted.

Unfortunately, after trying to quilt on my teeny-tiny Brother E120 (I'd be surprised if the throat is even 7"), I realised that I'd bitten off more than I can chew in trying to quilt it at home. This sucker is a big 'un and I need a longarm quilting machine to get it done. So I asked for another extension and got it. I now have to get in contact with a quilt store that offers a longarm quilting machine for hire (with a class beforehand) so I can get this done. I'm waiting for them to call me back...

Might have to give them another call.

Birthday Blocks

I am very very far behind on these. But with time on my hands (thanks to the completion of the Eternity top), I did two blocks last night.

An improv block, 9.5" x 12.5":

And a 'beach house' block:

I have a feeling the beach house is a little too 'regular house' and not quite enough 'beach'. Oops.

Two down...lots to go!

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Swap Day at Material Obsession is coming up on the 8th December, which means I should really get a move on with the quilt I plan to finish for it. Other than the Eternity quilt, I'd like to have something else, a little simpler and more conventionally modern.

We'll see how that goes. :)

What have you been doing this week? Go forth and linky, comment, and partay!

WIP Wednesday: The One Where I Fail at Deadlines

The Eternity Quilt

I asked for an extension to the deadline (this Sunday). I feel really bad for asking for one, but I spent the entire weekend on it, and just about every spare moment I had this week, and I'll still probably only manage to get the top sewn together by Saturday. It's a bad week for doing anything.

Then there's the quilting. To which I am a relative novice.

Yeah, it wasn't going to get done by Sunday. Hopefully I can get the extension - there are a whole heap of other projects which they'll have to sort and organise as well as mine, so it's not like they'll be waiting solely on me!

At any rate, the progress report is just going to be in instagrams today: more or less a week of madness.

And finally a rough layout of all the rows! A glimpse of the final result!

Never let it be said that I am not ambitious. Capable of my flights of ambition? Another question entirely!

And now it's time for medication!

Seriously. Medication. For stress and overwork and life. No prescription needed! (Certainly no proscription needed!)

I don't go on chocolate binges so much as chocolate-buying binges. Usually, though, it would take me about two months to get through this much chocolate. With the week I've been having, I'll be surprised if there's any left in two weeks...

So, what have you been doing this week? Have you linked back to the party over at WIP Wednesday?