Photo post.

I went to bed around 8.30 last night, because Casey said I had to wait until it was dark. I still didn't get up till lunchtime today though, so i think it will be going down in history as a curious experiment that proved nothing.

Anyway, the weather yesterday was lovely, so I took photos of the quilts I got finished on marathon night. They're not very good, but oh well. I was tired.

The log prevents creases, which is good, but doesn't fit in the cute little briefcase.

My helper.

The double wonk quilt.

The teenie quilt. Short side is about 65cm.

Blue and green seems to be a popular pairing for me, with 3 quilts already.

Even though this had always been referred to as the purple and green quilt, I think we should go with purple and teal as a more accurate title.

Not my first 4am progress report...

I think my body does know that 4am is bedtime, because it was about now last night that I started to feel like bed last night too, but then Becky was up texting some guy who was doing the night harvesting and was bored, so that kept me entertained for a few more hours.

So far tonight I have made the back for the purple and green baby quilt, which went well, and quilted it, which started off with having to unpick 3 rows of wavy stitch because the machine was doing this thing where the bobbin feeds through the wrong hole and the tension goes just slightly loose - I ignore it with straight line but you can see it in the wave stitch. Still, since I could just cut it every 10cm or so and then pull, it didn't take to long, and the gods of quilting apologised by making the rest of the quilting happen flawlessly - there isn't even a ripple, let alone a pucker. 

Unfortunately when I was squaring it I chopped a chunk of my fingertip off - well, actually it stayed attached which was good, because it meant I could just pop it back in the hole and bandaid it down. it hurts though.

And now I'm up to binding it, and the blue and green, and the double wonk. The binding's been made and is all pinned down and everything, And this is probably the easy part, before I have to try to line up the back of it.

I'm really not good at binding. So wish me luck.

A top a day...

Even though it's late, I got the first of my "top-a-day"s done.

It's such an unusual assortment of fabrics, and the placement is almost completely random. A couple of the greens look really brown in this picture, but they aren't.

Current size is around 95x100cm, but the pattern confuses your eye about the shape.

Didn't take very long, since the 2 sews per block were in the same direction, so it didn't need any trimming. 

This was made from 6 American fat quarters, and I'll need 1m of fabric for the back, and 35cm for the binding.

Tomorrow I'll be doing a green and purple top.

PS. I'm planning on trying to get one done each day for a week for a week.

PPS. Still no news on Babycat.