Black and Bright

Yes, this is still a blog that is often about quilting. It really is. Recent posts to the contrary. I thought it was time to post some pics and reports on some of my current WISPs.

This top is from a swap that we did last winter. We swapped batik and black snowballs. We were very careful not to make the typographical error that we once made with the snowman block swap, turning them into snotmen. Many of the other swap participants have completed their tops; heck, they've completed their quilts. And given 'em away. I still need to sew one more long seam and put the corner triangles on and then do the borders. It will happen.

I already know who this quilt will be for. A lovely young girl who will graduate from high school in 2010, about a year and a half from now. So I have time.

I'm so excited about this potential quilt. Many of the blocks were pieced for me by an on-line group where we take turns each month making blocks for each other. I had bought a wonderful collection of hand-dyed cottons and sent out two to each participant, asking them to use Kona black for a background and to make that particular block. I was delighted with what came back, and jumped right in and made the rest of what I would need. Now they are up on the wall waiting for me to cut the alternating black squares and start to sew the rows. I already know what the border will be like; it will come in time. There's no hurry. This is one of those quilts where the anticipation, the journey, is the joy.

There are a couple of other things in the works, but the camera screen flashed at me: "Danger! Battery Exhausted!" I thought it was a bit dramatic, but turned it off anyway. Exhausted. Tell me about it.