From my design wall...

Post are regrettably few and far between these days. Productivity peaks at work and not so much in my quilting room. Here's a little view of what is currently at my design wall though...

I started this EPP project this summer but haven't gotten further so now I feel its time to wrap up the project and add some borders. April is my month in the Bee Europa and it's a perfect opportunity to make some headway on this quilt...but I'm undecided about what border to make.

I really like the two modern blocks  you see next to the centre... The top fits the somewhat bulky look 'n feel. I adore to bottom block to be honest and would love to pick that, but it seems a little fragile to the rather massive centre. On the other hand it might look better when I get more blocks? I have to decide by tomorrow. Ah... decisions, decisions. What would you do?

UPDATE: I did a little palying with the picture in PowerPoint and all of a sudden the choice was obvious :)

A few more updates. For Bee Europa im March Gabriella asked us to do the sweet Granny Squares. 


As usual I also whipped up a little bag with the same design as an extra gift - a tiny Granny square. The bag measures 8,5"x 8,5" when its closed. So cute  :) Here's the back


And here's the front



And then I'm making Dresdens to my heats content whenever I have the opportunity. These will go on the black/white background and it looks stunning when I lay it out on the floor (no photo of that though). I'm making it all in rainbow colors and so far it looks really promising. The red is a biggie - the wedges are 8,5". Bold and very beautiful!



So that's what's on my design board these days...

New projects... I must be crazy

Let me just for the record say that I need not start any new projects anytime soon. Yet this weekend offered two of the kind.

The first one is a really great idea - Honeycomp stitch-along is a stitching school so to speak - hosted Jenelle @ Echinops and Aster. We're making a pillow using lots of different stitching techniques. The pillow size makes it less daunting :) The first task was easy-peasy - just regular EPP - but I know I'll be challenged over the next few weeks and strangely enough looking forward to it.



The other project is - well how can I put it - pure craziness. I was just in the mood for more EPP and at this glorious day of first day of spring the soft colors of Liberty was calling me. Could you have resisted? I have no idea how this will be used but I'm sure time will tell.

February catch up

A finish:
Work seems to take most of my time these days but luckily I still manage to squeeze in a little quilting time. My greatest finish this monthe is My house quilt that I made for my friend.  I've had so much fun making it. The fussy cutting for the house centres, diving into the scrap bins to find fabrics....Ot puts a big smile on my face and I'm a little sorrry to part with it to be honest:

Some of the blocks:

  

Bee blocks:
I'm finally back on track with my bee blocks - Celine had send us some cat fabric and as usual I was trying to send a little extra thing back with her block. There was no scraps from her blocks so instead I made a little cat inspirered pouch in black and white from my own scraps. Why I had to photograph it on my black kitchen table I'm not sure of. The pictures are bad but the pouch turned out well and Celine really liked it.

The back - The front - Closed:

  
And Celines blocks:
 

That was February for me... Limited quilting time and a short month on top of that doesn't do much for mass production  :)

I'm linking up to Lily's Fresh Sewing days