What's On My Wall

Perhaps I should change my name to The Sporadic Blogger. It's feast or famine these days.

The strange thing is this: the renovation-in-progress has awakened a creative mojo that had drifted off for a while. 

So I organize for a spell, and then I sit at the machine for a spell. Now that Gridlock Four is off the wall, I can show what else has been going on in these sewing bursts.

Wensleydale is my ongoing handwork project. I do this in front of the Netflix in the evenings. It started with a sweet FQ pack that I picked up when we were last in Midlothian. The LQS there, Quilter's Corner, is nothing short of marvelous. I never go there with a list but always emerge with a parcel. Anyway, I picked up the FQ pack and set it aside because (a) I didn't know what I was going to do with it yet and (b) it was folded in such a cute way.

Then Quilt Recipes came out and I became smitten with Wensleydale and started in with that little FQ pack and then went over to Stitch Central to supplement because I didn't want it to be all matchy-matchy, and then this morning I took advantage of a nice sale at Stash Fabrics because they had yet another FQ pack that would go just splendidly with what I have already. 

You'll see that the outermost triangles for each block is the same fabric. That will be true for half of the ultimate total of blocks. The other half will have a yet-to-be-acquired nice dark background and they'll alternate in the layout.

Bee Blocks for November!

Queen Eileen wanted any kind of star blocks in "Christmas colors" on a whitish background.

These were fun to put together.

I'm going to give Eileen the left-overs from the Christmas colors; she may be able to use them if she needs to fashion additional blocks after the swap is complete.

And here we have the current Leader-Ender project, coming together from left-overs after Gridlock Four was complete. 

A friend is at last expecting a long-wished-for grand baby late this winter, so a sixteen-patch blocks baby quilt is in the works.