Chirstmas is near!

I found this brilliant idea for potholders on flickr ... and now know what my mum will get for Christmas. She always "demands" self-made gifts and her potholders are getting tatty. However, I suspect that the ones I make will only be displayed, which might call for using some lovely Christmas fabric.

a Thousand Ships Sail the Sea

My quilt in a day top is done, quilt sandwiched and what I didn't manage to snap a photo of last night: one half is almost completely quilted in a pin-striped inspired pattern.

200 minutes on the clock.

Quilt-in-a-day 2 in production

Minutes after gift-wrapping and packaging QIAD 1 to be sent to England, I started my second one. I made really good progress on it and after 1 hour 20 minutes had quite a lot done, not least thanks to this brilliant tutorial: Zig Zag Tutorial.

Finished and ready to be shipped

Yay, my "quilt in a day" is finished! It'll be shipped this week and I'm quite pleased with it.

I learned to not scrimp on backing fabric!

Now onto the list of upcoming projects:
1.) PIF - not done yet, sorry
2.) Coasters - not done either ... but then there's always Christmas
3.) Stashbuster Quilt for my God-Daughter, well, sort of: used some of the the fabric and finished the quilt -> the rest will be turned into the ragged squares quilt.
4.) 2 quilts in a day for new babies: finished no 1, working on No 2
5.) a Big Zig quilt, based on Denyse Schmidt's pattern for yet another baby: on the backburner
6.) a long-term project: my first and only sampler quilt was meant for my first-born and to be ready when she starts school. She's in second grade and the thing still looks the way it did in November 2003. Yikes. I have plans to rework it and finish it off eventually. I will not hand-quilt and it will not be the size shown in that post dated January 2005.
7.) A Night on the Tiles in Manchester: started.
8.) Crocheting Madness

In the final throws of binding

The Quilt-in-a-day is ready for the final spurt of hand-stitching. And I love my binding clips! As a finishing touch I will add a little bit of hand quilting to the back where the hearts are in the front. And then the thing gets shipped and I will make another one, just in a different colour scheme for what I think will be a boy.

I *LOVE* my walking foot!

Oh, the work we create for ourselves

at least me for myself. On the other hand, this is a sign that I am learning as I move from project to project. My main mistake here: being too much of a cheapskate. I cut the backing too small and then didn't pin it enough. Oh well, won't happen again ... then again, I have done this before.

But it is looking good so far: