WIP's With Friends

Here it is Wednesday again. 

 I seem to have been busy with lots of things but not a whole lot of sewing!  

I did manage to work on my little fox quilt so will show you the progress from that. 

 It is for a friend at work that is having a baby.

Started off making all the block pieces.

Finny and Cole were "helping" me.

They both fell asleep though.

Over the weekend I finished the blocks.  

Putting them together was a PIT butt. 

 I'm not sure if I was not reading the directions correctly or if they are not written clearly, or something, but I sewed and UN sewed many times before 

I finally just decided to put it on the design wall to get it right!

That blank spot in the photo above is where the fox went. 

 I got him all fused down and needed to sew around all the edges.

   

Once again, Finn thought he needed to "help" me with that!  

I did get all the edges sewn around using a blanket stitch.  

The last thing I had to do was embroider the eyes and the whiskers by hand.  

I got that finished too.

I went on the hunt for an appropriate Minky to use for the backing. 

I found the cutest fabric on ETSY.

I have ordered it and am waiting for it to arrive. 

 I will send it off to my long arm quilter to work her magic on. 

 I really want to get the binding made for this one and for one of the other quilts at her place too. 

 I plan on working on that this week.

If you need your own pattern of this, you can purchase it right here.  

I also need to work on the fish quilt for my husband.  

Shhhh don't tell him, but I really am not thrilled to be working with boring fish fabrics! 

 Hopefully he will enjoy it though.

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