I want all of the projects in the whole world

I have been a busy bee lately,

flitting from one project to the next

and then back again.

So here's a quick roundup of where things are

at the moment.

My flowering snowball is quilted,

and the binding is attached

and glue-basted to the back.

I love this quilt so much!!

It's exactly what I envisioned it to be.

💙

Part of me wants to sell it;

I haven't given a sewing machine since last August.

But part of me want to keep it,

because really -

it is perfection in a quilt.

~

My Sleeping Porch Series 

is nearing completion.

Quilt #1 is only lacking 56 inches of hand quilting

(so - 1 episode of Hawaii 5-0, plus another 10 minutes)

#2, 

which I thought was going to be the quickest

and easiest of the sisters,

has turned out to be a smidge more challenging than anticipated,

and still requires probably 4-5 more hours of work.

(but I am in love with the quilting - a first for me, I believe)

#3 has been made mostly in the margins;

I'd make 2 blocks here,

and 4 blocks there

and one day, I had no more blocks to make.

I spent most of Saturday working on it,

first filling in all of the extra spots,

sewing it all together until I had a top.

Which I immediately basted to the batting,

then added a few lines of ditch stitching with invisible thread.

After that, I spent some time with youtube,

learning how to quilt swirls.

Then 

while I was cooking dinner,

I practiced my quilting on the fridge using a dry erase marker.

When I felt reasonably comfortable with that,

after dinner

I practiced my swirls on a little sandwich 

made of lawn scraps (from the backing of my flowering snowballs)

 warm and white batting

and a square of leftover sheet.

Once I'd covered my practice sandwich with swirls

- twice -

I moved on to the real thing.

I'm not thrilled with the quilting,

but it's plenty passable,

and most of the wobbles will disappear in the wash.

All that's left,

is to trim and bind it.

We will (finally) be giving Jordan her quilt

this weekend,

so photographing it has moved 

to the top of the priority list.

I've been mulling over it for months,

but

I still don't know where I want to take the pictures...

I still have my huge test block to turn into something usable,

and I am at the very beginning stages 

of a new commission project

 which I am very excited about.

And of course,

I remain neck deep

in a major house-building project.

{squeal!!}