We've All Been Robbed!

Hmph. For those of us who have monthly quilting goals set, February's lack of 2 whole days is a real bummer!

Since we lost all that time, I'm going to stop feeling bummed that I didn't get to my Beachwalk (I'll sneak it in tomorrow if I can). I did manage to slip two of my UFO BOMs under the wire despite a serious load of "real" work today.

And, of course, now the camera's dead and there are no batteries left in the house, so I can't upload those pics yet. But I can find pics on the web of the whole projects! hahahaha  (Man, I need sleep!)

The first one this morning was for this fun quilt from the 2010 Patchwork Party:

The second one (pair, actually) was for the Selvages quilt:

And now I have to go fall into my bed - won't even bother me that Dev's got the TV blasting over the noise of the treadmill, either. . .

Not much says "Love ya, Mom" more than. . .

. . . an 18 year old young man who's willing to step outside traditional male behavior to learn how to sew a quilt for his mom!

Kyle stopped by to follow up on Becca's work from yesterday on Lori's Irish Butterflies.

Pretty adept already at wielding the rotary. . .



Gotta get that little snag!

. . . he took to the whole careful 1/4" seam allowance concept like a fish to water. Got the rest of the strips cut out and sewn in duos for the criss-cross blocks as well as the last trio for the butterfly block sides. I was impressed!

Way to go, Kyle!

Lori's Irish Butterflies

Today's sewing was fun!

Becca came over to work on her mom's quilt. We'd started it before Christmas, with Becca and Kyle doing almost all the work under my mentorship, but ambitious high school teens in band have rare moments available at that time of year.

They'd chosen some fun gold-highlighted butterfly fabric for her, paired with some pretty purples because they said Lori loves purple. We found some metallic Gold-on-Gold blender fabric that looked AWESOME as a contrast for the border play. But we quickly tossed that because it created a strong LSU effect - AND WE COULDN'T HAVE THAT! Not for a die-hard GATOR fan! We decided to wait until the center is finished and audition some other colors for the accent border. We do know what we'll use for the outer border - it matches the lighter purple, but has really cool metallic gold swooshes all over it without looking like it belongs in Tiger Country. 

I happen to know that Lori also loves the entire concept of Ireland, so I suggested they work up a double Irish Chain quilt - not too hard for beginners. Just two types of blocks, no bias or HSTs or anything really frustrating.

Anyway, after a long hiatus, out came the box with Lori's pieces. . .

 

Now, where were we?

(Do you want to know how badly I had hovered like a hawk while they were using the rotary cutter after I tried so hard to cut my finger off the month before?!!)

 . . .and Becca got right to work. She finished several butterfly blocks and then switched to making a criss-cross block so she could finish the whole first row. Which she did quite well!