Blocks, Blocks, Blocks

The house-selling saga is a rollercoaster.  After about two weeks of keeping the place spic-and-span and vacating for showings at an hour's notice, we finally got an offer! And went through with escrow and an inspection, etc....

And today the buyer withdrew the offer.

*headdeskheaddeskheaddesk*

Back onto the rollercoaster.

I have in the meantime finished the Christmas wallhanging and given it to my mother (I need to get a picture) and have been powering through three sets of blocks this weekend: the October block of the month (Postage Stamp Baskets) for the Wednesday morning guild, the giant flying geese for the group I'm exchanging them with, and inventing the November block of the month (Beautiful Batik Butterflies) for the Tuesday night guild.  Amidst which my vintage iron died. ;_;  I need to find if the sewing machine repair places would be able to fix it, because I really really like that iron.

Also, Squiddle (age 5) has just invented fanfiction! Tonight as I was rocking in the darkened bedroom with him and his brother for a few minutes, he told me about Octonauts, and how Tweak invented the Gup-X and gave it to Captain Barnacles for Christmas and made him climb the seamount to test it... which is one of the episodes.  Then he told me about Tweak inventing the Gup-S and how it was like a snake.  There is no Gup-S in the show.  Kiddo has told his first fanfic.  Mummy so proud! ^_^

Bold and Bright

Argh. When I woke up this morning (half an hour before the alarm because Jazzy couldn't find his paci in his bed and therefore decided nursies were in order), my right arm ached. Too much work yesterday!

Since I'd finished the Tumblers quilt, yesterday I decided to move on to the next project: a braided wallhanging top in Christmas fabrics that was in a bag of strips I got at Costume College.  I pressed that and the backing, and made a Frankenbatt of three strips of batting from my basket of batting scraps (I hand-stitched them together).  I also cut strips for the binding and hanging sleeve from the excess backing fabric.  Got the quilt layered and basted, hauled the Singer 15 table over by my sewing desk, and spent a good portion of the evening doing free-motion quilting.  Project quilted!  Following that, I trimmed it up (more rotary cutter work), hauled the 15 table back to its place, and tidied everything away.  Now I just need to put on a binding... and a label... and a hanging sleeve....

In any case, here's the tumblers quilt!

Bright and scrappy, with some dark to let the eye rest.  There are actually two spots where the same fabric meets up to make hourglasses.  Oops!  I made this one nice and wide and long so neither of us ends up quiltless.  I don't tend to make my bed quilts long enough for pillow tucks, though.  I like to see the pillows!  And the pillowcases do actually kind of go with the quilt... well, I used a bit of the main fabric on the scrappy binding.  Good enough!

And then, of course, as soon as Mummy and Daddy abandoned the bed this morning, it was seized in the invasion of the bed snatchers....