le sigh take two...

this should NOT be a le sigh moment, but is: just finished up the last of the blocks, almost. three still need to be finished, but they were the ones that i screwed up the original pointy bits on, so THOSE strips need to be fixed up before i can finish the last blocks, and to fix up the pointy bits, i need to ORDER MORE FABRIC! :( stupid having *just* enough to begin with, then not quite having enough scraps to make do because i didn't read the pattern closely enough.

off to pack up because i'm in dc for a bit. also have to figure out my knitting dilemma and PACK, which i can only kind of do because i really left laundry to the last minute (it's in the machine now) and still have to decide what i'm going to wear. oh my!

because i need variety...

i've been working on several things at once, all in a half-assed willy-nilly fashion.

i've been ploughing along through the wedding quilt, which is good since it's not going to get done on its own. look, the piles are getting reversed, and i've got less than 40 squares left. which i only just realised isn't *that* impressive considering that there are only 90 in the whole quilt. still, more than halfway!







and i've finished this quilt top. it was pre-cut squares which is a LONG story, but was supposed to be done at christmas. either way, it's done now, and i quite like the white border. and, i don't want to jinx it, but this is the quilt that's going to take me pro! a friend liked it and offered to pay me for it. but i think that i might still keep my amateur status for a while. :)





finally, i've gotten some fabulous oilcloth for my dad's father's day gift, which is going to be a hanging bag for his clothespins, since that's the job he's decided on since his retirement and having to pick an around the house job. :) hopefully he'll think that i'm as clever as i think i am.





and, no pics, but further progress on the scrappy quilt: 25+ blocks! 110- to go. :) i LOVE this quilt already, and super adore other people's scraps.

the february lady sweater has been temporarily abandoned due to a lethal (for craft projects, anyhow) combination of laziness and needing to work something out. i've got to figure out how to measure my own armpit (possibly with string) and compare it to my armpit stitches on said sweater. but, never fear fls, you will be mine. she'll come with me on my trip (the long way) to washington dc this weekend/next week and i'm sure to get a lot done there. :)

so i says "ba-ba-da-BAAAAAH"

and he said: "yeah, but you've been working on it for four weeks, it should look awesome"
me: "fuck yeah, but did you see those corners??"
i wish that this were a punch line or something...but really, lookit my corners! :




also, scrappy quilty: 10 blocks done, 125 to go.

slow and steady wins the race...

i guess. i'm impatient though, and with the attention span of a gnat. but the wedding quilt is coming along.

all the peaks are sewn together and ironed flat





and some of them are trimmed.





and all the rest of my squares are cut.





and i have a small pile of blocks that are going to need a slight revisit because they aren't big enough. :(





hopefully this pile stays the smallest. now back to trimming! (also, for the record, the accountability post worked!)