First Block On The Next Traveling Quilt

I have Jenny's sea themed quilt to work on for our traveling quilts.  

It is the one I am the most intimidated to work on so have been putting off doing anything.  

I wanted to make something to get myself started but I wanted to be able to finish it too. 

 I found a pattern by Elizabeth Hartman called "Nessie" 

(the Loch Ness Monster) that fit the bill perfectly!  

You can find the free pattern here.

I am still pondering how I want to do the water under her but for now the top part is finished. 

I LOVE her!

Close up .  You can see the bird fabric I used for the sky.  

Cool side angle.

I will be adding this to the top of the quilt but can put something in the water under her or just do some improv water like I did with the fish quilt I did last year.  

I have a few more ideas for this quilt, but we are going to go visit our daughter in NC and then on to Florida soon, so no sewing for me until we get back.

I will leave you with a couple of Finn and Cole photos to tide you over.  

Just look at that LONG arm!

Such a good boy!

If you want to follow our trip progress, find me over on Instagram.  I am @mamaspark59 over there.

~XOP~

WIPs With Friends

Seems to be that time of the week.  

What have you been working on? 

 I am still cutting out squares for my Ocean Waves quilt. 

 That seems to be all consuming for me at the moment. 

 I think I need to look at my "to do" list though and see what else I need to work on.  

As soon as all the squares are cut out, I want to cut out another quilt to work on.  

I think I will be using the OW quilt project as a leader/ender one for now. 

 I know my son would really like his Detroit sports quilt made.  

I have 3 chenille blankets to do so that's another couple I need to take care of. 

 I think I already have one basted, but that leaves 2 more and then all the sewing!! 

 One of the babies is due this week so I am fairly certain he will get the first one done. 

 If you want to see how to make your own chenille blanket check out my Tutorial page just under my header photo for the link, or click right here.

I was thinking about sewing but someone had other ideas.  So I stuck to cutting.  

My plan is to add some Tula Pink Neptune into my navy and white quilt so I dug out my Neptune.

It was easier than I thought to make those cuts and it feels GREAT to use the fabric I love!  

This dark navy Triton is by far my favorite in the line.  

Getting that deep indigo is so difficult!  

I wish Neptune was not so difficult (and expensive) to find, 

but I am certainly going to use some in this quilt!

So that about sums up what I plan on working on this week.  

Do you find that writing it down helps you get more done?

I think it helps me stay on track.

Your turn, what are you working on?

Share with the Inlinkz blue button and don't forget to use #WIPsWithFriends

~XOP~

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My Weekend

I had a fabulous weekend beginning on Friday.  

I went out on a quick shop hop with my friend Windy.  

We met in Pinckney and made our way back to Lansing.  

She brought me some fabric she had found for me.  

Tula Pink!!

I did pick up a few cool green and purple prints.  I'm still looking for purples for the 2 wedding quilts

I found this older AMH print too. A great score!

I also managed to score some Elizabeth.  I got a little bit in Mason, at Keans.

I got an entire FQ bundle plus some of the queen in yardage at Pink Castle Fabrics

It was totally a great fabric score kind of day!!  I have more to share but no more time. 

 My mini quilt arrived from the Tula Pink Mini Quilt Swap, but that deserves it's own post!!

How was your weekend??

~XOP~