Applique Tuesday and a Finish!

Another project I needed to get going on, and now the top is done:

Here's the latest neonatal quilt.  I'm calling it Flower Baskets Mod - although my DH said they were Easter eggs, LOL.  Do you think it qualifies as a Modern quilt?  So far it is just a flimsy.  At the last guild sew day, I found these fabrics in the large bags that had been donated.  These were the scraps from a seamstress which makes little girls clothes.  These pieces looked like (from what else I found in the bag) either little sleeves or yokes for dresses.  I sewed the pieces together and then made the oval pattern.  The blocks came out just right for a 10 1/2" block.  I turned over the seam allowance to the shiny side of the freezer paper and pressed it, then center the baskets on the background and pressed that, too.  I then machine appliqued it with a tiny zig-zag stitch using Aurifil thread 50wt in both bobbin and spool.  They went together fast once I sat down and just did them.

There's my applique for this week.  I have Wednesday and Thursday free of babysitting. I hope to get back to LE and the other two BOMs. The weekend will be see me out of town to babysit another set of GKs, so I'm posting this finish for Friday today.

What have you been up to?  Would love to see eye candy, applique or otherwise.  It's all wonderful.

Linking to Connie's Free Motion by the River also so you can see other eye candy and Amanda Jean's Finish it up Friday for a whole lot more finishes.

On My Design Wall 8/12/13

I've added another row of blocks and sashing to the charity top:

One more row of blocks to go!  This will measure 36" square.  The charity tops I make for St. Anne's are that size for two reasons - big enough to snuggle a newborn and small enough to later use to sit on, and as baby gets older use in stroller or car seat.

What's on your design wall?  I'm linking to Judy's Patchwork Times and Lyn's BOMs Away.  See you there.

Stash Report 8/11/13 & Reveal

Almost the same as last week, but this past week I didn't even have the mere scraps that I would have appliqued. And all the hexie fabric has been accounted for earlier.  I did have to donate a yard of white to the St. Anne's charity quilt - that's all the busting I've done.  Here are my numbers:

in 0.0 yds.; out 1.0 yds.

Stash YTD: in 8.5 yds., out 94.43 yds.

Donated YTD: 41.96 yds

Net for 2013: out 85.93 yds

 

Also, I can finally show those two quilts for the twins as their party was yesterday.  Happy First Birthday Daniela and Elena! 

Here they are - front and back.

 

These were a disappearing nine patch with sashing.

Wavy line down one diagonal and then SID around other block pieces.

Gave it a nice serendipitous four block design.

In an earlier post of last week I showed Elena's name on her quilt.  Here is Daniela's:


I was personalizing without standing out too much.

Go on over to Judy's Patchwork Times to see how others did this past week in de-stashing.