pinwheels

What do you do when your nephew turns one? Give him the quilt you started for the baby shower.

In fairness, I would have had this done on time, but I somehow picked out colors and prints that didn't go together. I had the grey-green, beige and dark and light blue solids put together, and then realized that the browns and oranges I was going to use for the larger pinwheels didn't match at. all. It was pretty disconcerting. Like I had suddenly forgotten how to tie my shoes or something.

So I picked out something else for the shower and did a second search for fabrics.

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.