WiP Wed - New Block!

This is the second one of these Rose Star/Jazz Hands whatever-you-wanna-call-it blocks. Kris, over at Duke Says Sew What first tipped me off about Clare's Rose Star block party, which I promptly joined in on. I had been hand-piecing like mad already, and after cranking out a few of these my arm was about to fall off.

 



That's when I decided to up the hexie size to 8 inches (point to point) and try machine piecing. I'd never done y-seams by machine but I figured it out. The first block might be more visually striking in photographs, but in real life this one is my favorite. It screams tropical vacation or something like that.

As far as WiPs go, I made one block for my mom's quilt, and started this new quilt, with two block done now. Nothing else got touched!

STATS: 
Completed Projects - 3
New Projects - 1
Ongoing Projects - 7

I also want to mention my pal Elizabeth is having an awesome Superior Thread giveaway, which you can find here. She's awesome and is full of useful quilty info and wisdom. Plus she writes like a dream :D

Linking up with Lee's WIP Wednesday :D

WIP Wednesday #13

Yikes! It's been weeks since my last wip wed post!

Drunkard's Path Quilt Along - I've been making slow and steady progress on piecing my blocks. When the QA was first announced I sewed up sixteen blocks and arranged them into SEVERAL different larger blocks, took pictures and spent a bit of time and effort figuring out different layouts. Here's what I came up with!

The following pic is my all-time favorite DP layout. It's traditionally done in a two solid color pallete, and eventually I'd like to make one like that. Much bigger though, for my bed.



Since this will be for my niece due in December, (hey MQ, pretend you didn't read that!) I went with all the pink and white prints I had on hand and got a bunch of this slate gray for the background. I like the look of this last layout for a little baby, it reminds me of those shape games where you fit the circle peg in the circle hole, etc. So, while I love some of the other options I'm going with this one for this quilt. Yay!

Other than some coasters, mug rugs, and a vest I've been working on for my lovely roomie, all my other projects have been sitting for weeks. I should really get cracking as Christmas is just around the corner...

Linked up with WIP Wednesday!