Repetitive.

I can't promise that this is the last bag of this sort you will see. I suppose I should branch out, but this one just makes up SO quickly!

For my daughter's friend's birthday gift. Fun and summery! I should probably iron it a little better, though. :/ Tutorial here. Go make your own. Seriously. It's so easy.

Another Whimsy Flimsy.

It's possible that I'm a little loopy from lack of sleep, but the phrase "Whimsy Flimsy" keeps cracking me up. Yeah, I'm funny. I know. ;)

From Amanda Jean's Round and Round QAL last year. I only had the last two rows (well, four if you count the sashing strips) on either end to finish, but I had to put it away for a rest. I just pulled it out this week and finished it up really quickly. I just have to do that sometimes -- put things away while they're daunting. They don't feel so difficult after some time has passed. Now I have to buy something for the backing. I only had a FQ pack, and I've made two quilts from it already. Plus, I'm doing a Farmer's Wife quilt with what's left. Made from Joanna Figueroa's Whimsy line.

A little windy.

It's a little windy today. This is how my first attempt at photographing this quilt went. I need some of those big clamps to clip the quilts to the fence, I guess. (Please, ignore my weeds. Our weed-eater is having technical difficulties.)

This time the wind is helping to keep it against the fence. You can hardly see the kaleidoscope pattern, but I had to give up for now. I'll have better pics when it's finished. It has the same color palette as this quilt, because it came from the same pile of fabrics. What can I say? I thought they were pretty.

What I'd really like to point out here is that I am STILL caught up with the QAL. Now I just need to get caught up with my Farmer's Wife quilts.

Another bag.

When my four-year-old saw the bag I had made, he wanted one to carry his books and toys around in. So he chose some fabrics, and away we went. Here is the finished product.

And he carries around all kinds of things in it. I even found him carrying his Playskool bus in it. I now have requests from 3 other little boys for their own bag.

It finished itself . . .

There were 80 of these blocks, which seemed rather daunting. So I used them to chain sew through other projects. I joked before that it was going to finish itself, and it kind of did. Other than when I pieced the rows together, I really didn't focus on this quilt as "what I was working on." So it felt like it finished itself.

Now if I could just get it to QUILT itself. (Tutorial here.)

A little decorating . . .

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not much of a decorator -- or much of a finisher. I've been teaching some sewing classes to some of my friends' daughters, and I had to make some samples. I figured I might as well make some samples to match my boys' room.

And a banner.

This is not its final destination, obviously, but I was displaying it for the girls to see. I think it will eventually end up at the top of their curtain (that I haven't made yet).

King David's Crown block #1

One down . . . 19 more to go.

But at least I have 5 more cut out and ready to piece. Yes, there are Y seams in this one. And some of them didn't go so well. I am assuming that I will get better as I go along. I'm using some older fabric lines all mixed together -- City Girl by Kitty Yoshida for Benartex, Shangri-La by 3 Sisters for Moda, Chez Moi by Sentimental Studios for Moda and a whole bunch of other things that match. I can't even remember them all right now. I love this block, though, and still would love to do it in a bright pastel palette.