WIP 9/16

[cam]

What is (or isn't) making progress this week? Anything you want to show off?

[saltypearl]

I started scrapbooking my honeymoon. Only 4 years later.

I also realized the initial color I worked into my son's birth announcement was actually the wrong blue from the kit. I think I'll just try to match it and eliminate the alternate blue. It's too late to rip all I have out.

[cam]

My most used sewing machine foot bit the dust. I could use it if I truly needed to, but I would need to adjust it regularly to keep it attached. Needless to say, almost all time I could have spent crafting this week was spent looking for a new one. I couldn't find the same foot, so I had to settle for as similar as possible, which is unfortunately not a snap-on like its predecessor, but at least it arrived yesterday, so work can resume. I designed a sort-of pillow for LO (it is denser than a pillow would be; for propping up his feet to sleep), and I have the fabric laid out, ready to put my pattern down on then cut. LO was asking to play a game though, so I got pulled away as soon as I got all my supplies out.

[craftcrazymama]

This week has been a bit of a craft fail for me. I wanted to get on with quilting my 'Quilters Garden' quilt but when it came time to start quilting the backing kept puckering. I don't normally have that problem as I baste a LOT and use cotton batting which tends to stop slippage. But the backing fabric (in hindsight) is quite thin so moves and stretches more. I'm going to need to glue baste as well to make it work but it's been impossible to find time to go and get the spray glue I need.

Result = progress nil

[sunfrogger88]

Quilting the chenille quilt! Two hours in. Hubby is going to a bachelor party tomorrow night so I think it'll be a quilting night for me!

[cmeon]

Two corduroy skirts for DD (one a twirl layered skirt- so no pattern, the other more or less "simple gathered skirt for all ages" (or something like that) from Purl Bee. The latter pattern has a really fun way of adding big pockets into side panels- it's really quite clever.