WIP Wednesday

I am working to finish up the pinwheel baby quilt.  

I am trying to finish up the quilting. 

 It certainly takes a long time.  The center portion took me about 5 hours!

Lots of straight line quilting going on right here.  

I did a few lines in the small border and decided to mimic that in the larger border.

I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.  I now need to square it up and choose the binding.

I am hoping that this one will be completed soon.  

I would love to be able to cross it off my "finished" list.

Next up are getting my January Bee blocks made and mailed.

Linking up to Lee's WIP Wednesday.

Linking up to Let's Bee Social

~XOP~

Naughty Bunnies

I am in a naughty swap called bitchesgetstitchesswap.  

We are using bad language and some other fun things (as you saw in my last post) for our swap gifts.  I did use some of the bunny fabric to make the cutest little trivet for my swap partner. 

 It is from the book Patchwork Please.  

There are some fabulous patterns in this book. 

My friend Ayumi is the author.  

You can find her amazing book right here on Amazon.  

Since the naughty bunnies are the centerpiece I thought I should surround them with some overly sweet fabrics, maybe giving them some privacy eh? 

 So I choose Scrumptious for the fabrics (it also has the word scrump in it, giggle).  I

 used insulbright for the batting so it could be used for a trivet for something hot.  

You could also just use it for a mug rug. 

 So here is my little naughty trivet.

Here is what the back looked like before I sewed the binding down.  

I think it came out cute.  

Several of the co-workers that I showed it to did not realize what the bunnies were up to, so I think it is subtle enough not to be offensive to anyone that may see it. 

 Although if you are participating in this particular swap I would hope you are ready for whatever! 

 I think I may make some of these for Christmas gifts this year too.  

Would YOU be happy to receive one of these trivets?

(not with the naughty bunnies, just with pretty fabric).

I have another idea too for a mini quilt for my partner. 

 I don't think she views my blog so I will show you the embroidery I have planned.  

I am still contemplating how to make it into a mini quilt but I have some ideas.  

You know of my love of peacocks so this incorporates that.

I would embroider the peacock and the words (already traced on to fabric)

then do some kind of border.

I am considering some form of flying geese, probably from my friend Kelly's patterns.

I love her Goosing borders so that will probably be the one.

You may need her patterns too.  They are stunning!

I need to figure out a color scheme for the embroidery yet, but I am excited to get started.

I am linking up with Finish It Up Friday over at Crazy Mom Quilts.

Have a great weekend!

~XOP~

More Weekend Fun

The fun of my weekend continued on Saturday.  

First thing in the morning Ann and I hit up the Farmer's Market.  

If you ever get a chance to go to this in Muskegon you should.  

It was one of the nicest Farmer's Markets I have been to.

My friend, Windy, met up with Ann and I at the quilt shop in Holland, Pressing Matters.  

What a nice shop!  

Ann was collecting the Row By Row patterns so I got them too. 

 Plan on passing them along to another friend.  

I probably spent the most money at this shop filling out my Scrumptious stash.

I also picked up some Marmalade and Miss Kate

 More Miss Kate

I ended up with this pattern as well.  

I thought it was so neat!  

It kind of reads like the Yellow Brick Road pattern. 

 I'm not sure what fabric I will use in this but I definitely want to make it and soon!

Then we headed off to a shop in Allegan, called Sharon's Quilts and More. 

 I picked up some of my favorite needles, some Best Press and some Full Moon Forest!!!

The next stop was a shop called Dancing Dogs quilt shop in Plainwell.  

This is the shop that Ann wanted to get the lighthouse Row By Row pattern at.

Windy regaled us with stories of Plainwell as we were driving along.  

Next stop was in Kalamazoo at the Bernina Sewing Center.  

I think Windy bought some backing fabric here and Ann got a Michigan Tech pattern.  

We were pretty hungry so we decided to stop for lunch at Bilbos.  

Lunch was good and Windy had both of us laughing so hard with her bra fitting stories.  

I think the other folks in the place were traumatized, LOL!!!

The final stop on our shop hop was in South Haven at So South Haven.  

I believe they are only open seasonally.  

Cute shop and the owner was super friendly!

On the way back we saw this crazy blue cow ice cream place and 

decided that we needed to stop in and have some ice cream.  

It was the Sherman Dairy Bar and the ice cream was fantastic!

We were all pooped with our big travels of the day.  

We headed back to Holland and dropped Windy off and proceeded home to the cottage.  

I did pull out my stitchery and got quite a bit done for the Kitty Mini Quilt Swap project.

I will finish up the rest of the story tomorrow.  

~XOP~