Cheers to a finished project!

It's been a long time since I finished a project. I've had at least one craft project in progress for over two years now, but between surviving graduate school and planning a wedding, crafting for anything else was just not happening. Post-wedding I purchased fabric like a fiend and had stacks ready to go for a total of six quilts and two home decor projects.

Four months later I had three works-in-progress, fabric sorted for four more quilts and a home decor project mostly done. Oh , and in the meantime I also built wedding albums for our parents and sent out tins and gift bags of Christmas cookies to our friends and family I’d been baking since October...

pink waves

Finally, I made a quilt for the oldest of the three - the sister, who is almost four.

little log cabin

I'm still learning some basics, so after the triangles I decided to try a log cabin block. 

triangles in squares

During a trip to New York, I bought a couple of fat quarter packs and half yards from Purl Soho that I planned to use for quilts for three little kids - a sister and brother, and their cousin.

 

Troubleshooting - Grey Tunic Shirt

In a fit of boredom I rearranged my apartment last night. I started to clean and decided to flip the whole room - it's a studio so there isn't a lot of space to move anything to. It took me three hours and left me with a "new" view of my apartment, plus a pile of things to take to Goodwill and a shopping list for Ikea. On the upside, I think the place is set up now for me to get a table large enough to cut and sew on and some shelving to store all my fabric and yarn in a less chaotic way.

This may also help me to get some projects done since I won't have to be constantly moving from coffee table to ironing board to kitchen table to bed in order to work. Thus why all this takes me so long and it's easy to put off whatever I'm making for another weekend. Case in point, those Built-by-Wendy shirts. Although I did finish this grey tunic shirt before I went on vacation in early August – I just wasn’t able to get this posted until now. I’m now trying to sort out the second shirt (blue button down from Sew-U) which now I might actually be able to finish in the next couple of weeks.