Little S wanted to start another quilt since the D9P is done and turned in. I did not want to think too hard about it, so I got out a bag of precut 5" blocks that I had gotten at a yard sale and had her play with them for a while. There were oodles and oodles (a new word for the girls and they are trying to find places to use it!) of peachy ones. So I cut a bunch of 5" squares to supplement from a slightly darker peach that was in the stack of guild fabric to use up and she laid them all out. Somehow I don't think she is going to finish and get it up off the floor before her father gets back, but it gives her a project for the next little while - and stuff moving out of the piles and stacks. That's my plan - get it moving out.
I got the 16 blocks done for the baby boy quilt I need. You can read more about that here. Now I am contemplating what color sashings. I thought white since this will be the pair for the pink & white quilt that can be seen here, but then I thought maybe light blue. It will get a piano key border.
Playing with scraps these are my choices. I don't like the medium blue. The light light blue is good and if the white was muslin instead of this very white I would like that better. Since I am walking past it constantly I have a chance to think about it. What do you think? Medium, light or white?
Even though I need to get this done ASAP in order for it to be ready to go to Guatemala in early March there are other things I really have to do today - homework for a class I am taking since I am a week behind and I have a commissioned project that I need to just bite the bullet and do. It doesn't have a deadline, but for me I need to get it done. And this is why I stopped taking commissioned projects after the green quilts last year. I just don't like them hovering overhead. I'd rather play in my scraps!!
So I am getting off the computer and hitting the sewing machine to get the commissioned project started - and hopefully finished.
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I'm with you about commissioned quilts! I began the year with three of them. One down, two to go. And, yes, I know that I am spending a lot more time and energy fretting and groaning about them than I would if I'd just DO them.
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