What cha' been up to Monday

This is a little exciting.... My first linked post! I have long been a fan of browsing what OTHER productive people have been up to every week over at Patchwork Times' Design Wall Monday. I will admit to being drawn by the visuals -- may the most eye catching photo win the day! I have found some of my favorite BLOGS by browsing design walls and I am proud to say that being able to link my own weekly progress on things was one major point in considering starting a BLOG in the first place.

So here goes... Not a lot has been going on in the old sewing room these days, since it is now half the size it was with all the same stuff and is being shared by someone who needs to be asleep around 9pm. However... I did a lot of hand work over the summer while away from my machine so there are several ongoing projects that have shown lots of progress since June. The first are the borders I designed for the Moda Modern Workshop jelly roll quilt I made last spring from a pattern in Scrap Basket Surprises by Kelly Brackett. I also happened to have a charm pack from this line and I really loved the flower motif featured in many of the prints. I enlarged and slightly simplified the flower and am doing a border of them. I have one long border finished. The other is complete except for the leaves and both short borders are still pending. The border lengths do not evenly divide by the motif length so I am going to have to get a little creative at the corners. In the mean time, I have lots of little leaves to starch and some invisible stitching to do! Once the pressing is done this is a great take a long project for me when we go to gymnastics, dance and martial arts classes.

The thing that is actually "on the wall" this week is this wall hanging that needs some additional design decisions. The central basket was done probably upwards of 8 years ago. Early this spring, inspired by Erin Russek's flower designs and appliqué techniques I designed and added the corner motifs and early this summer I designed and stitched the top and bottom strips while teaching an appliqué class at a LQS. Now I need to decide what other piecing I need to set off and tie together the appliqué bits. I am thinking a row of small square in a square blocks to separate them and then I don't know. I think I need to add those and then see what else it needs.







As always, I have an Erin Russek My Tweets block in the works as well. Summer vacation and back to school has me a little behind. This is July's block so far and June's block is finished and ready to be added to the Flikr group for this block of the month.