Wednesday, November 4, 2015

WIP Wednesday - November 4th

First off, I have some excellent news...I went to the orthopedic doctor on Friday and my brace came off, no more broken wrist!!  My wrist feels great so I have jumped back into the sewing groove.

Here are my sewing projects I have going on right now...

1.  Baby quilt for my sister's friend

I had pinned the blocks together for this quilt top right before I went roller skating with plans to sew them together after the kids went to bed.  Once I fell and broke my wrist these blocks sat ready to sew for about 5 weeks.  

I have now finished the top adding a small white border to help frame the quilt top and to avoid distortion of the quilt top during quilting as the edges of all of the blocks are on the bias.

For this quilt I used a pattern from the Moda Bake Shop called Wishes String Quilt by Karen Vail of Cascade Quilts.  You can see my previous post about the making of the blocks here.



2.  Fabri-Quilt New Block Blog Hop 2015

As part of the New Quilt Blogger's Blog Hop we had a New Block Blog Hop sponsored by Fabri-Quilt.   We (the hosts of the blog hop) split the blocks we received to make into charity quilts.  I received 24 blocks (12.5" x 12.5") and am planning on making two quilts out of them, a lap quilt and a baby quilt.  

The blocks look so good together I am still in the planning stages on how I am going to combine them.  My initial thought is to add some white sashing with different colored cornerstones.  You can find links to all of the blocks and tutorials on Twiggy & Opal's Pinterest page.



3.  Moda Bake Shop

I unfortunately can only show you some of the fabric cuts from the jelly roll and not the finished quilt top, but I can tell you that the quilt is a lap size jelly roll quilt and will be published on the Moda Bake Shop's website (and here) on December 9th.  The fabric is from the Petite Prints Deux collection by French General.



4.  The 2016-2017 Mystery Quilt

This might be a little early to announce, but I do plan on having another mystery quilt next year starting in the summer of 2016!  

Right now, I am playing around with designs and different ideas.  I want to give myself plenty of time to come up with the design, write the pattern, prototype it, and get it tested before next summer.

I am very happy to link up with Let's Bee Social @ Sew Fresh QuiltsNeedle and Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation, and WIP Wednesday @ Freshly Pieced.





18 comments:

  1. So glad you got your brace off. Don't over do it though as your wrist will probably feel a bit weak for a week or so. xxx

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  2. Yea! Glad you are doing better and back to sewing!

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  3. No brace, great! A mystery quilt next year, wonderful. I am enjoying Midnight

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  4. So glad your wrist is healed! The baby quilt looks fantastic. The white really sets off the colours. I can't wait to see the quilts you make with the blog hop blocks! They look amazing in a pile, so I can only imagine how good they'll look put together properly.

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  5. I bet you are relived to get that brace off! I forgot about the baby quilt you started before, still in love with it! And I cannot wait to see the Fabri-Quilt quilts!

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  6. I am so excited that your brace is off and you are all healed; that is such great news. I am really excited about turning the Fabri-Quilt blocks into quilts to donate, and it will be so fun to see how they come together.

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  7. Glad to hear you are healed and the brace came off! Sounds like many exciting things to come and I will be watching your page and the bake shop's page as well. Sounds like you will be a very busy bee.

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  8. Wonderful news but don't over do it...

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  9. Hurray that you can get back to sewing!! What a lovely pile of blocks from the blog hop. They will make such cheerful quilts.

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  10. Yay! Glad to hear your wrist has healed so nicely. :-) These look like terrific projects (especially that MBS one...)

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  11. Love all the pretty blocks. WooHoo shout out on the wrist news. Know you're happy to be back at your sewing machine.

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  12. I am very happy to hear about the wrist. Lots of wonderful things in the making, I can tell you are excited :)

    -Soma

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  13. Congrats on being all healed, that is such a long process. Love your Wishes String quilt and all those blog hop blocks are beautiful. Sounds like you've gotten back in the groove and are back to stitching.

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  14. Good news! I'm sure you'll sew up a storm :)

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  15. I imagine you're so happy to get back to your sewing! I love the colours in your Baby Quilt, such a fresh design! And I'm going to have to look up those Blog Hop blocks, so cute!! I look forward to seeing the finished items!

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  16. So happy the brace is off, but as someone else mentioned, go easy for a couple of weeks! I like the baby quilt! :-)

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  17. That's wonderful that you got the brace off! Hooray! And I love the baby quilt - such vibrant solids.

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