I do a pretty decent job of keeping my sewing table neat and orderly so it's ready to go at a moment's notice...mainly because the adjacent dining room table now looks like this. Yeah, good luck eating a meal here. My freshly retooled serger needed a home. And he was lonely. So he made some friends in the form of four quilts, two octopuses, a cutting mat, and various other works in progress.
Home sweet home.
Despite the drama earlier this week, I still managed to get a bit of sewing done. I had planned on sharing a Sunday Stitch update with you guys last week, but Labor Day happened, and I just plum forgot. Chock it up to holiday brain. So this weeks is two, two, TWO weeks in one.
A year or so ago I bought an awesome Birch bundle from, where else, City Craft. I'm only now getting around to using it. I was waiting for inspiration to hit me, and it did when my friend Kristi (from Initial K Studio) pinned this bad boy to our Modern Quilting Pinterest Board. WOW.
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It's a variation on a traditional Log Cabin. Don't let me fool you like I knew what that was before I read the tutorial (I didn't). Here's mine so far. It's a mix of the Birch fabrics and some Cotton + Steel.
Please ignore the terrible photography. I couldn't get the blasted shadows to go away. Also, thanks to the dumb builder of my house - once again - for placing a thermostat directly centered on my dining room wall so I can NEVER hang a piece of art there. You're the best!
This quilt will take approximately 9,728 hours to complete. If you've never done a log cabin, here's how it goes: you stitch a row, then iron, then stitch, then iron, stitch, iron, one gozillion times until you are done or rendered insane. It's a labor of love that I'm sure I will have to take breaks from so I don't go ballistic. In a perfect world I would have this (hopefully) twin sized quilt ready for the winter. We shall see.
You can spy in the photo above another quilt block from Tula Pink's City Sampler using some rockin' Frida Kahlo fabric. 3 down, 97 to go. This will also take awhile. Why do I do this to myself? But I'm enjoying working on these little projects in between the big ones.
I got around to putting that awesome neon red thread in the serger and made a few of these bad boys. Y'all, this serger is rocking my world. I wish I hadn't waited so long to get it fixed.
These little jersey blankets will soon be on their way to swaddling newborn babies. I love jersey for swaddle blankets. That little bit of stretch hugs those burrito babies nice and snug.
What have you guys been sewing this week?
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