W.I.P. Wednesday

W.i.P. Wednesday is here again. Be sure to click the link above to see what everyone else is up to!

Finished Projects:

~ I finished the Modern Quarters Baby Quilt this week. It will be going to my local hospital foundation, along with the Kaleidoscope quilt I finished a few weeks ago. The original inspiration for this quilt came from the Modern Halves Quilt, though I ended up taking it in a different direction. I am really happy with this finish!

Ongoing Projects:

~ Chrysalis and Sparkle are still awaiting quilting. My shipment from Connecting Threads (batting and thread) should arrive this week, then I will be underway.

~ Sewing machine cover. I finished the top for this project this week, and in the end am very happy with it, buuuuuuut.....I'm re-thinking it as a cover for my sewing machine. I've decided I don't really love the open sides of a cover this style. Our house is SO dusty for some reason and I really think I need to protect my machine more. So I got to thinking, hmmmm, I wonder if the cover I made for my old Janome would fit? And you know what? It does!! Well, pretty much. Close enough.

But back to the on-point-former-sewing-machine-cover. I ended up needing to trim it quite a bit and add borders in order to square it up, but I think I like it even more bordered than without. I think it will eventually become a mini wall-hanging, probably to be hung near my sewing machine.

I thought this was fun (below pic) - this one little square of Hometown text fabric shows both the city where I was born, as well as the city that I spent a good chunk of my growing up years and where I was married and where our first baby was born. Had to make sure it was included!

~ Pulled out the old Swoon pattern and some white and print flannel that I had, and made one Swoon block. Need a buy a bit more flannel to border it, and will turn it into another baby quilt for the hospital. It will be soft and snuggly, though I must say, flannel creates a LOT of lint in the sewing machine!



Which leads me to.....

~ I ordered something like this:

A mini vacuum attachment set. I hope it actually works and that it is not totally gimicky and useless. I'm determined to take really good care of my new machine!!

~ Google Friend Connect - I posted about how confused I was about this whole thing, and really things are no clearer now than when I wrote that post, but I've decided to just roll with it. Do I want to lose readers? No. So I do hope that those of you who subscribed to my blog via google friend connect who do not have a blogger blog, will consider re-subscribing through Google Reader or Bloglines or whatever other feed reader you prefer. At this point I'm not going to do anything else in particular and will just see how the transition goes. I hope you stick around!