Work in Progress - And Done

I'm working on ANOTHER "many trips around the world", this one using up the pinks and greens in my TWO shoeboxes full of 3.5 inch squares... 

It can be a bit tricky to keep the colours in order and in their diagonal line, so I made up one block and tacked it on the cork board that I keep just behind my sewing space -- along with the instructions, patterns or other works in progress details so that they don't drift too far from where they need to be handy!

So far, I have got a bit of a stack of the pinks and greens and I still have alot of squares to use up -- and you do know how "one thing leads to another" -- well, I am sorting the blues and browns into piles in preparation for the next 'many trips'!  This has become quite the addictive block!

 

The unpressed stack! It grows so very quickly and once you get going the thought process is almost automatic -- tho I do have to admit, I did have to do a bit of frogstitching when I just got too far in the ZEN moment...

 

 

I think another 4 blocks will make a nice size couch throw, but there are probably enough pink and green 3.5 inch squares cut to make another 11 blocks for a good sized twin...  I guess it depends on when I get tired of looking at pink and green, eh?

 

And finally a finish on a quilt that I can't think of a name for, but my friend Helen keeps calling it an SB quilt!  Flattering and I may just leave it at that -- she has already done a few of them and I keep promising a tutorial with size variations -- later this week I hope.  Just other more pressing things in life than playing on the computer...

 

 

And of course, Walter must get his two bits into the story, so there he is inspecting my piecing and quilting.

 

Oh, by the way, you might notice that the quilt is hanging over a dresser.  Recently I had a mishap with my ironing board -- it collapsed!  Which was not unexpected actually.   A couple years back I was walking along my street and there was an old ironing board sitting by a big blue garbage bin -- being the scrounge queen that I am, I made my DH go get it and bring it home, the ironing board, not the garbage bin, that is.  There was nothing wrong with it and it worked very well this past couple of years, but I suspect there was just too many times of Walter jumping up on it and so the latch that holds up the thing gave away....  So now after that big long story, I decided to bring an unused dresser into the sewing room, which, with adding stapled padding to the top has now become my new ironing board but also allows 6 drawers of storage space underneath it! Nice!

 

Hope y'all are having an very creative week! And are you visiting the "Beat the Winter Blues" Blog Hop? Lotsa giveaways, and some very nice blogs to check out! And of course don't forget the weekly Wednesday Works in Progress link up at the Needle and Thread Network -- all Canadian Blogs