A Finish!

I was good, I took pictures!  Here's the X-Plus quilt, as held up by Wonderful Husband in the shade:

It's approximately 70" x 80", made mostly from blocks won from Block Lotto simple straight-line quilting to follow the X and Plus motifs, and the binding is a bunch of black-and-white print scraps that finished it off pretty well.

And a picture of the quilt on a quilt's natural environment: a bed.  Though this one is maybe more of a sofa snuggle quilt size?  Regardless, I think it turned out well.

Git R Done

HA.  Not only have I consolidated my three racks of thread spools down into two (thereby removing the one on the floor which would've been in reach of the baby when he inevitably realizes there's an area of the house into which he has not yet crawled), but ALSO I sat down yesterday evening and just JAMMED at the quilting.  Admittedly it's all straightline quilting, which is far less time consuming than free-motion, but within four hours (which includes a break for dinner) I got the X-Plus quilt all quilted.

(Yes, I'm feeling chuffed.  Thus the not-quite-random capitalizations.)

Today, around Squiddle's morning class and all the usual household folderol, I've been pressing and cutting black and white prints into strips to make the binding...

Hot Weather Has Arrived

We have apparently hit flea season.  Joy!  The cat (Sushi) got treated with Advantage II before I let him out this morning, and, as Squiddle had at least a couple dozen bites on him this morning (I actually picked one flea out of his hair) all his bedding is going through the wash on hot.  As will be the sofa covers later.  And I'm squashing every flea that I find.  Jainist I'm not.

It's turned quite hot the last couple days but is supposed to cool down again later this week.  I did take advantage of the relative coolth this morning to get the X-Plus quilt basted together.  I want to start in on quilting it!  But I know I'll be less miserable if I wait on it until midweek.  So meantime I need to find other projects (beyond the omnipresent housework) to do....

Grr

My first instinct was right; even cut and pieced, the length of fabric is about five inches too narrow for the quilt top.  So I've pulled a second, coordinating, piece to turn into a roughly ten-inch strip down the center.  Of course, I'd already put the ironing board, iron, cutting mat, ruler, and rotary cutter away....  Ah well.  My own fault for jumping the gun.  I just really wanted to get this one basted today.  But now the Squiddle is up from the nap he refused to take today, and overly active.  Le sigh....

A Flimsy Finished

Got up early this morning and started sewing.  The X-Plus blocks are now a top and I've pulled some fabric for the backing.  I'm not sure it's quite enough; I need to look at it again and revisit my mental math in the morning.  And probably pull a second fabric to piece with it.  But for right now I need to go put away toddler toys and clean up the kitchen from making chicken pot pie for dinner... then shower and bed.

From Not Enough To Too Many

Block of the month quilt row fixed and added on.  It now fits; hooray!  Though I still need to make the April row. ^_^;;

I also laid out the X-Plus blocks on my bed and pinned them into rows.  Apparently I miscalculated (seems to be a theme this week) and I have one block extra.  Better one too many than one too few?  I may use it on the back or maybe I'll save it as an orphan for some other project.

But for tonight, since Jazzy has now discovered crawling in forward gear, my task is babyproofing my sewing area, getting things up and out of babyish reach.  Wish me luck!