Last night I was innocently reading through some blogs and somehow I ended up at this post.  I just LOVED the quilt pictured there (a modern scrappy baby quilt) and remembered that I had a mini charm pack of High Street that I bought during the summer. 

I quickly pieced these 21 blocks, fun-fun.  But then what to do? I have yardage of a couple of the High Street line but not enough. (of course)

So this morning I pulled out some leftover batik jelly roll strips that coordinated and cut a bunch (168) squares and the grey background squares  and had a fun time chain piecing.  

See all those little triangles below the blocks?  Yep, they're the cut offs that I couldn't throw away--I'm going to sew them together for what... I don't know yet.

 With the batik ones, I sewed a 2nd line 1/2 inch from the 1st one so when I trimmed the triangle off it was already sewn together.
 It took only a little more time

  and now these are all done and pressed too.
I'm going to trim off all the little dog ears while watching the Pens game tonight.

In between chain piecing, I pressed the Metro Ring units I had 90+ to press and it seemed to take forever.
They are finally all done and now to trim them all to size.

I took a little break and gave Mr Otis a bath.  He was not too pleased with that but I'm happy to have a clean pupper doodle again.  He was exhausted and took a nice long nap by the fire.

I'm going to need my design wall to lay out the new baby quilt blocks, so I was forced (heh-heh) to start the sashing on the bl-a-days. I'm pretty sure these will be 2 lap size quilts instead of one twin.  I don't have enough of the green fabric I'm using for all the blocks anyway.  I spent about 20 minutes messing around with a scrappy sashing but just couldn't get into it and didn't want to spend more time than necessary to get these done.  

I've done another row of SID on Jonquils & Stars but it's languishing.  

I'm hoping for at least another pass or two tomorrow.

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so much to do so little time

quilting... 

 quilting...

quilting... 

and more quilting

This is the 2nd baby quilt for Libby (the top picture is the first one)

 the patterns are from Rebecca Silbaugh her blog is here.

 you can find the patterns for the Alphabet Stitchery's here. I took the pictures on the deck.  The sun is coming through the bare tree branches....but it's the SUN!!!

woo-hoo.

Rebecca and her mom did a trunk show/lecture at our guild a few months back and we each bought 2 of the patterns.  Libby has hers made --they are going to be gifted to newborn twins.  

They are just too adorable.  The first one pictured at the top of post is 'Noah's Ark'

the 2nd is the 'Jungle Animals'.  Libby said the stitchery one the Noah's Ark one took a bit more time but the Jungle one stitched up very fast.

I was most surprised when she told me she bought the fabric at JoAnn's!  It's really, really nice. It was a bundle they had.

I'm almost done piecing the X blocks. The blocks on the right are this months guild BOM.  I like making the little 6 inch blocks more than the 12 inch ones, they're just  fun!  I should take down that darn asterisk block.

   

And here's my latest treasure made by my dad!

It's a side table with glass (plexi-glass for safety) on the front and sides and a hinged top.

 I have 6 full/queen quilts in it and a few small ones I switch out for decorating.

I LOVE it.  And have asked for a matching one for the other side of the sofa. 

Filling it will be no problem!

Of  course now I think I need new lamps....