"Bright Shiny Things"

       Obviously I am not much of a blogger am I? I hadn't done much quilting for a while and wasn't very inspired so I had nothing to write about. Then a couple weeks ago I decided I needed to finish some stuff up and that started my crazy journey chasing bright shiny things (as my daughter calls my amazing ability to be distracted by just about anything in front of me). 

      It started by me choosing a box at random with a project in it. It was the green chain quilt. I started making little 4 patches like crazy. As it grew I decided the 4 patches weren't killing me so I pulled the red box of the same block and went a bit nuts doing those. After they got to the laying out stage I needed to start something else.

      Next box I grabbed was leftover pastel pieces from another project. I didn't want to make that same quilt again so I started sewing the pieces together. There were small crazy quilt pieces in the box which I used in the first quilt. That gave me the idea to use some of my crazy quilt blocks with the strips for the next one. I pulled out my collection of crazy quilt blocks and used some in the main part and cut some in half for the borders. The pile was getting smaller and since making crazy quilt blocks is a favorite of mine I spent the next week making more blocks.   

     Well....as the crazy quilt blocks grew my collection of pastel scraps
got smaller and smaller and I needed some longer strips that were a busy fabric. That reminded me of my box of floral blocks so I looked to see if there might be some strips already cut in there. Well, guess what was on top of the box. A bag of half square triangles, which made me think of my friend Kate LePard who also likes to make stars so I made some star blocks with the triangles which I will put together with the crazy floral blocks in the box. At the moment that one is on the design wall to be organized and completed.

lots & lots of  blocks

       
 

      Now that is the sewing room projects. I also set up the big table in the living room to layer the pastels and since it was up I quilted 2 baby quilts and  sewed on 2 bindings and machine quilted a 3rd quilt, using a new ruler I wanted to try. I am getting the hang of the ruler thing but need more practice so that sent me to the internet to order another ruler for the border. 

      

 Lordy...chasing all these bright shiny things has left me with quite a collection of UFO's to assemble. Oh, and I also have 1 empty box... Progress...