String Quilt Blocks

With all my quilting this weekend I ended up with a replenished stash of scraps. Naturally I made a few new string quilt blocks to add to the pile....

A plethora of projects

I have about 8 different quilts going at the moment, most of which are stacked on top of my ironing board. The big squares are the basis for Paty's "mix-matched"quilt, and there are a couple of gnome blocks on top that.... I also have my string quilt blocks, my underwater sea adventure quilt blocks and two new quilts I started this weekend (both "math" quilts, with plus signs as the main design).

Not exactly sure when I plan on finishing all of these, but at least I have something to work towards!...

Gnome Homes

Two gnome homes down, an undetermined number to go...

No scrap left behind....

I decided to put some of my scraps together to #1 cut down the size of my scraps bag and #2 try a new quilting style. I love the design the quilt blocks make, especially since there is no real pattern or rules or color scheme... just one strip of pink in the center of each block to tie all the blocks together (and make there appear to be actual squares within the quilt). Not having anything to figure out also makes this go pretty fast.... of course I won't have enough scraps to finish an entire quilt for a while, but its nice to have a stack started!!

1 Recruit for the Felt Army

Today I received my needle felting kit (one of my most anticipated Christmas presents this year... thanks mom!!). While I completely skipped over the instructions that came with the kit, I did manage to create one of the animals from my new, super cute felting book. And although it might be hard to discern that it is in fact a rabbit (I had a little trouble with the sizing, but this was all for the sake of learning) I am pretty proud that you can at least tell its some sort of animal.

Its definitely going to take a lot of practice to master this new craft, as its by far harder then I thought it would be, but its also really fun (even if a little painful at times.... they aren't lying when they say the needles are sharp). I'm really excited to start making little felted friends, and even more excited to turn them into a felted army!!!