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So here are my blocks for my January Swap.   I actually picked this block out for my swap group – the organizer was looking for ideas, and I really had been wanting to play with this one for a while.   The black, was not my choice – but I think it makes it kind of look vintage-y, particularly with my fabrics.  The prints are kind of all over the place – I wanted them scrappy enough to be able to blend in with other people’s blocks – there’s some vintage fabrics, some modern and traditional prints, which I threw in there to kind of tone down the orange – and then there’s a couple of cheesy novelty prints ( Something promoting a Demi Lovato movie, and some Hannah Montana ) in there too just because I think its funny to throw them into scrappy projects.   It’s going to be hard to let these go, I like them so much.

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A few weeks ago I signed up for Pink Castle Fabrics’ Stash Stack Club. I had been wanting to sign up for a fabric club for a while, but I was really not wanting to sign up for anything that would be too cutesy or country or whatever some months. I wanted something useable. I think that this one is going to fit the bill just fine. Every month you get a selection of modern fabrics in a given color. This month was obviously purple, and I’m pretty pleased with my first selection.

So after several months I’ll have a selection of prints that are more my aesthetic. Granted I love my very large stash of fabric, but because it was mostly gifted to me – a lot of it is fabric I would have never chosen for myself.  And while it does fine for scrappy projects, it’s very hard to make a more coordinated piece.  It will be also nice to have more contemporary fabrics to mix into what I have already.

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I would up making Racing quilts out of all the jelly rolls in my stash.   I found them to be just what I needed.  They were fun and came together so quickly and it was nice to feel like I accomplished something.   Now that I had all these tops, I figured I should use one of them as my Christmas present for out family gift swap.  The largest of the bunch was the most masculine – so that was the one that I decided to run with.

Finishing quilts is not my strong point.  I have tons of quilt tops that I never get around to actually quilting and binding.  Binding, ugh I don’t want even get started about how much I stress over binding.  In the days leading up to finishing this one – I planned on cutting my binding out of this pretty black polka dot fabric.  But once I started cutting and making my binding I quickly got frustrated and wound up just buying some bias tape from the store.   I am very proud at how nice my sewing came out on the binding itself – so maybe next project I’ll master the cutting of the binding.

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In any case, here is one of those aforementioned holiday projects, a hexagon lap quilt, in Chicopee.   It’s coming together pretty quickly, and I love the prints.  I’m using this super awesome tutorial from tallgrass prairie studio.

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Now that Halloween costuming foolishness is over and no longer taking up my studio space, I can finally get back to my projects.  Yesterday I put a good couple of hours into working on my disappearing nine patch – I sewed the half-units together and pressed open all the seams so I’ll be ready to finish assembling them this evening.

Thing I am proud of:   I am getting pretty good at matching points.  I only had a couple last night that weren’t pretty, and it’s nice to see progress in that area, since I’ve been struggling with it for a while.

Thing I am worried about:  I’m worried about the arrangement of the prints and contrast between all the pieces.  I sewed all these pieces together without much forthought, and I know it is going to wind up biting me in the end.

After I pressed all of these, I wants a change of pace, so I even sewed up a bunch of HST’s for my pinwheel project – so I got a lot of work done!

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My first package arrived from the moderator of the swap – they were perfectly made, and actually kind of intimidated me, because I wasn’t sure I would be able to accomplish the same level of skill.

But my second package showed up, and proved that nobody was going to even bat an eye at my n00b sewing skills.  It was not the right size.   Nor were all the pieces hexagon even, look closely at that top left piece.  I am not sure what happened here, honestly.  But after you get something like that, it is really hard to send your pretty blocks out.

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I’m really going to try to get in the studio this evening, but it’s looking like its going to be a late workday.  I have two tops that REALLY REALLY need to be assembled.  Quite frankly I’m tired of looking at them.

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