Mama K Breaking Bath

She 100% judges my points and disapproves when I sew over pins…

New project in the works, mission is: get better at/more comfortable with FPP. While I’m still at the place where I have to think overly hard about how to about how to orient the fabric so that when I flip it, it lies correctly. Also miserable at estimating how much fabric I’ll need to do a block. Still, Amanda FPP star blocks are cute enough that I’m hopeful I’ll stick with this, even though I’m in the weeds of learning right now 😅

Working on piecing together the blue strips on my mom’s quilt - Sadie is helping obviously 😆🙄

Had so much fun making a little house for Triangle MQG’s August block lottery that I wound up making 5 😅. Did I have other stuff to do? Yes. Did I decide it was more important to find fabric in my stash that had illustrations that would fit in a 1.5” by 2.5” rectangle? Also yes 😆

Finished the mermaid baby quilt! Happy with the quilting overall - I did it myself on my domestic. Used a “specialty” stitch for the hair (first time trying that) and think that was fairly successful). As always - plenty of room for improvement, but not too shabby for a quilt made in ~1 week 😅

Finished the quilt top for my coworker (who’s about to go on paternity leave for baby girl number 3). Pattern is a slightly modified version of “Mermaids”. True to my procrastination tendencies, I left myself 1 week to quilt it (nothing like a time crunch to motivate finishing a project 😅).

Made myself a new bag 😍I put my poor strawberry tote through its paces and it showed it, so it was time for a change. Made this from fabric I bought 20+ years ago which I still love (I believe my original intention was to make curtains, but never quite finished them). It’s funny, as someone whose dress is largely neutral colors and generally basic, my accessories are loud AF 😆

Finished piecing my “Singularity” quilt top (pattern by Jenn, available in The Modern Quilt Guild resource section- free to any member). Not gonna lie, it’s big and I’m not overly excited to baste it (always my least favorite part of quilt making). Looking forward to quilting it (optimistic that wrangling it through my domestic machine won’t be a Sisyphean task 😅)…

Finally finished the late 80s, early 90s Lisa Frank-inspired baby quilt of my inner kid’s dreams 💜🦄🌈

Unicorn mane fabric is all from “Fizz” by Giucy Giuce, the unicorn horns are from “speckled” and the black background and binding is “starry”, both from Ruby Star, and the sashing and backing fabric is from Tula Pink’s recent coral reef collection.