WIP Wednesday

One Big WIP for me this week.  Yesterday, I started quilting the border of my In From The Cold quilt.  I hadn't decided what to do with it  ~ but just before I got out of bed that morning I thought of cross-hatching it (not sure if that's what that design is called) and I liked that idea.  Sooo ~ I actually got out my Frixion pen and started marking the diagonal lines around the border.

My dilemma then was ~ do I do each line separately? or go back and forth?  If I did them separately, I'd have to bury all those threads afterwards.  If I did them back and forth, I'd be fighting with the quilt as I turned it in opposite directions.  (I can't imagine how people do those bed-size quilts on their domestic machines!)

I opted for the back and forth method and, like I said before, it's a good thing I'm keeping this one because I can really see my stitches as I travel to the next line and it bugs me, but it's not being judged and that's a good thing!  I may even just do the diagonals in one direction instead of cross-hatching it because I'm already tired of flipping the quilt around.  :)  We'll see ...

(what it looks like so far from the back)

This morning I started putting together a Shir-Crazy Wristlet that was ordered from my shop.  I used a couple of the same fabrics as the Aragon Bag I made last year.

I finished it and mailed it out this afternoon.  

I have an awesome friend, Cindy Nichols, who loves to do pottery ~ she made me this little sign out of clay and I have it hanging on the wall in my sewing space.  I wrapped a length of selvage to cover the wire.  I absolutely love it!

Linking up with WIP Wednesday.

Finish Friday

I actually do have a couple of finishes this week!  The first was actually an order through my Etsy shop, JeniLuScraps, for a teacher who was buying 35 Little Zipster Pouches for the kids in her class ~ how nice!

Finish #2 was the bag for the pattern I was testing that I mentioned on Monday.  Unfortunately, I can't show you yet, but let me tell you ~ I LOVE it!  It's a perfect travel bag for me, but it could be used as a diaper bag as well!  While I was putting the final binding on I got a chance to use the Clover Wonder Clips everyone is talking about and they are FABULOUS!  Here's a pic of them in action ~ can't wait to try them out on my next quilt binding project.

That's it for this week ~ I have four more sewing days before we head out west for a week, so hopefully I can catch up on my QAL and BOM before we leave.