This year has been so incredibly busy with non-quilt related stuff, I just keep falling further behind.
I did get to spend a great weekend with two of my grandsons, and two of the granddogs as well. We did some crafts, though nothing sewing related. We watched movies, ate cookies, and just had a fun weekend. Monday I didn't get much done, because even a good weekend with the grandkids can be tiring.
I had hoped to get the overdue baby quilt done this week, but I still need to sew on the binding. I also realized I hadn't made his older sister a doll quilt, which I normally do if there are older sisters. (I've made older brothers quilts for their stuffed animals too, if they are into that) Since I didn't have a doll quilt ready, I looked through my orphan blocks to see if I had anything I could make into a doll quilt quickly.
I found a small pile of broken dishes blocks leftover from another project, and I came up with this layout. I have a piece of lavender minky just the right size to back it, and I know I have a batting scrap that will work.
I've been piecing with a darker gray thread, but I'm almost finished assembling the next scooter quilt, as well as the blocks I've been using as leaders/enders while making it. To make this doll quilt, I really should use something with a white background as my leader/ender and switch to white thread. Since the scooter quilt is already in rows, my design wall was free, so I looked around the sewing room for something I could use as leader/enders.
I found a stack of larger broken dishes blocks that I had made from bonus HST's from two other projects. I could have made a baby quilt with the one with white backgrounds, but I didn't really have enough of the gray background ones to do much with. I didn't have enough gray ones to make a border around the white ones, and no matter what I was going to have a couple blocks leftover. I opted to just bust as many blocks as I could in the same quilt, so I put an off center gray stripe down the quilt. I won't add borders, so the quilt will finish at 48x64, a good kid sized quilt.
As far as things I actually got done in the past week, here they are...
1) Basted and quilted baby quilt, ready for binding.
2) Got scooter quilt sewn into rows
3) Almost done making alternate blocks for another UFO
4) Basted two more quilts, one smaller quilt for donation, one larger quilt for a gift.
5) Cut out what should be enough 2.5x4.5" pieces for a potato chip quilt made from men's shirts. I will cut more if I need to, but I think this will be enough.
6) got the doll quilt and another UFO on the design walls
It makes it seems like I got more done when I list it out. I think I tend to look at what isn't done more than what is done. I really need to get that scooter quilt finished so I can get it basted and then use my cutting table for cutting out the Christmas gifts! The holidays always come up faster than I think, and we've got quite a bit still coming up for this year.
