WIP Wednesday #8 and a big finish!

I haven't done a WIP Wednesday since the...wait for it...drum roll... 25th of April! So I've had a few finishes since then.

Finishes:
New York Beauty Quilt Along (30th April):

Travel changing mat (20th May):

THE BIG FINISH!! 'Binkies on Broadway' baby quilt (6th June):

Melody Miller coffee set (6th June)

Some progress:
Bead bags for Bead of Courage

I've got 4 or 5 little ones to make from the scraps that were left over.

No progress:
Nicey Jane quilt-as-you-go

Flower quilt made from leftovers of Oasis by Three Sisters jelly roll

Bali Pops Peace Medallion

Brown and pink bag
Alphabet baby quilt
Batik mini quilt

Not started yet:

Butterscotch & Rose jelly roll quilt

Hunky dory jelly roll quilt

Bag made with fabrics from Malta

2 x Red and black jelly roll quilts (new addition! Yes I've been buying again!)

Stats:

Finished: 5

Made progress: 1

No progress/not started: 10

I am of course linking up with:

Bloggers' Quilt Festival Spring 2012

Suddenly blogland is awash with entries to the Bloggers' Quilts Festival:

As my followers will know, I'm pretty knew to both blogging and quilting, so I have no illusions about winning anything, but I am really excited to take part and welcome new people to my blog! So if that's you, welcome, I'm so pleased to see you, and I hope you will take a look around my blog and will like what you see!

Anyway, on to my entry! I really wanted to enter this quilt, which I designed myself and made for my best friend's little girl. It was the second quilt I made:

...but I only have this one (pretty rubbish) photo, and I can't take any new photos of it as its owner would not be parted from it!

So I've decided to enter my New York Beauty quilt. My followers will have seen it before, but I had so many positive comments about it *blush* that I hope they won't mind seeing it again!

I decided to take part in the New York Beauty Quiltalong because I'd never done paper piecing, I'd never done curves and I'd never done a quiltalong! (brave or crazy, you decide!)! So I made a start and this was my first block:

 It went together so easily, I decided to make 4:

So then it seemed sensible to carry on like this, making 4 blocks each week. Week 2:



 Then I started to lose steam! I think in retrospect it was too ambitious to plan to do 4 a week alongside a full-time job and my other sewing! So I kept putting off doing week 3, but eventually came up with this:

 ...and then this is week 4:

...and then I stopped. For a good few weeks. I just couldn't face the thought that there were still 6 blocks to go, 4 of each one... that's 24 squares...AHHHH!! So my beautiful blocks sat there assuming they would be relegated to UFO-dom forever. Then I saw Teresa's beautiful entry for the weekly Quilting bloggers competition and thought what a great way that would be to finish off my quilt! So I got to work, week 5's block is bottom right:

 And then when it was all quilted and bound, I took it to my mum's to take some pictures:

 For only my 5th ever quilt, I'm pretty damn proud of it!



A finish and some decent photos!

...and that's not to say my photos are usually indecent...ooh er missus! Anyway, here it is, my completed New York Beauty quilt, this time with binding, and an attempt at some decent photography. Those of you who live in the UK will be more than aware that this was the first dry day we've had for about a month, so I made the most of it and went out into my mum's garden! Let me know what you think!

I'm linking up with:

New York Beauty quilt top finish

As I already mentioned, I entered the Quilting Gallery's wall hangings contest. While I was there, I noticed this quilt by Teresa at Quilting, stitching and sew on:

I had been doing the New York Beauty sew-along at Sew Sweetness, but having got to block 4, my enthusiasm was waning. So when I saw this, I thought - hey, if I get one more block done I could finish my quilt off in the same way.

So I worked on it all weekend, and here it is:

Apologies for the crap picture quality (as always. I really need to find a tutorial or something!)

I'm linking up with

WIP Wednesday #6

Completed projects: 0
On-going projects: 2
Worked towards New York Beauty Quilt Along:

And the 'Binkies on Broadway' quilt I am making for my colleague. Here's the pattern:

 And here are my bunny blocks:

No progress: 4

• Nicey Jane quilt-as-you-go
• Flower quilt made from leftovers of Oasis by Three Sisters jelly roll
• Bali Pops Peace Medallion

I'm linking up with WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced:

New York Beauty Week 4 Complete!

So I am finally up to date with my New York Beauty blocks! So here's everything I've got so far:

And my Daddy popped over earlier to try out his electronic boat in the bath (this happens in everyone's house, right?!):

Linking up to:

New York Beauty Week 5

Well, it's week 5 for everyone else:




Check out this week's tutorial at In Color Order. However, I've only just finished week 3:

*sigh* but I'm pretty proud with it so far. Add that to two of these:

And that's where I am at. I think what I will do is sew them together in matching blocks of four, and then sew my 9 favourite blocks into a square lap quilt and the remaining block can be a mini quilt. I have noticed that there are two distinct hues emerging, one much warmer, and one bluer. Had you noticed that too? So alternatively I could do two mini quilts each with 20 squares, but then I'd only have half a circle of each design. Hm, decisions, decisions!

I'm linking up with Manic Monday at Sew Happy Geek:

WIP Wednesday #5

I've missed two WIP Wednesdays!

Completed projects: 0
On-going projects: 2
Worked towards New York Beauty Quilt Along:

So here's my New York Beauty so far:

And my first successful attempt at knitting!

No progress: 4

• Nicey Jane quilt-as-you-go
• Flower quilt made from leftovers of Oasis by Three Sisters jelly roll
• Bali Pops Peace Medallion
• A heart garland to decorate my workspace

I'm linking up with WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced: