Sashing In Progress Wednesday

I'm making it my March Mission to finish my Central Park Sampler Quilt. I looked back through my old blog posts to see when I started this and it was way back in June 2011 when I joined up for Leila's Skill Builder Sampler QAL, so it way beyond the time it should be finished!

 

Today I've been squaring up blocks and sashing, and have 9 blocks joined together so far. The boys have after-school clubs tomorrow and Friday afternoons, so that's extra sewing time I'm allocating myself!

Super Mario Quilt:
I have taken delivery of the green solids I needed and have drawn out 3 green-ish coloured blocks but just can't face all the 1.5" pieces right now so it'll be on hold until I finish the sampler quilt I think.
So far I've made 7 of the required 14 blocks.

Stats:
No progress this week year on the;
Solids HST Diamond Quilt - needs re-basting as I've changed my mind about the backing fabric!
Black and White King Size Bed Quilt - completed quilt top, partial quilt back
Dresden Plate - partial quilt top
Kaleidoscope - one block made, lots of cut pieces in a drawer!
Kids T-shirt Memory Quilt - some t shirts cut....

Finishes this week: 0
New Projects this week: 0
In Progress: 7

I'm linking up with Lee over at Freshly Pieced for todays post and Quiltsy.

A couple more...

...Sampler blocks.

This is the Flying Geese pinwheel Block and the tutorial can be found over at Sew Happy Geek (here).

And this block, which I don't know the name of, has become one of my favourites overall.  The  tutorial can be found as part of the In Color Order HST Block of the Month QAL here.

Although it was bitterly cold today, the sun was at least shining so I popped outside for a photo for a change :)

I've been squaring up my blocks and have found that a couple are coming up short of the required 12.5" - humph!

Linking up with Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story

Monday Stash

Too late for the Sunday Stash Report, so here is a little Monday Stash instead.

I got a little parcel! And I haven't had one for soooo long - you know how it is, so much fabric just sitting there combined with no £ in the purse means Karen has to quilt with what she has rather than buy more! Don't get me wrong, I have loads of fabric here and projects in mind but I was used to getting little parcels twice a week! Naughty girl!

The green solids are for my Super Mario quilt and there were a couple of floral squares thrown in for good measure but what I really want to show you is the camera fabric - how fabulous is that! I wish I had more money so that I could buy enough to back a whole quilt in it, but this little FQ will do for now!

It's called Pepper Cameras and I got it from Quilt Me Happy.

Whilst we're talking about ordering fabric, what is the limit for ordering from the states these days before the import tax kicks in? I've seen this new line called Geekly Chic and I may just have to save my pennies and get some!

Also, whilst I'm being all good and frugal I got these fab duvet covers from Asda, the red and white was reduced to £2.25! And the two double sized blue stripey ones were reduced to £4.75! They are going to come in so handy for backing my sampler quilt and the Mario quilt.

Sorry I wasn't able to rotate the picture...

Nothing is ever easy

Oh dear, I cut, I pieced, I pressed, I hung it up to admire... Whoops

The aqua squares are supposed to fill in the opposite spaces to the pink ones so that the negative spaces aren't next to each other. What was I thinking?  Obviously I wasn't thinking at all, just sewing. Well I'm not unpicking it again!

So this block takes me to 12/12 but I have seen a couple more sampler blocks that I'd like to make so perhaps a pieced back with a couple more blocks is in order!

Here is a slightly brighter picture than yesterday's attempt, although it still seems a bit blurry.

Therapy

I've been feeling very stressed out the past few days, what with a 5 year old acting out and the bathroom overhaul experiencing a few delays (hopefully it will be finished on Wednesday) - the dust from plastering and tile cutting gets EVERYWHERE!!! Here's a preview of the shower area.

I made another block for my Central Park Sampler Quilt, this one is a QST Pinwheel and comes from the Sew Happy Geek Mixed Sampler QAL, the tutorial for the block can be found here. This block takes me to 11/12 blocks.
 

I have a 9 patch block that I made eons ago which I'm not happy with, I was going to just throw it in the scrap bin but then I thought that a bit of quiet time with the unpicker could be just the therapy I need... So here comes a redo and hopefully block No 12!

And here are all the blocks hung on my dining room wall, it's a grey old day and as usual my photography skills and lighting are terrible, but you get the gist...

Linking up with The Lets Get Acquainted Link Up over at Plum and June