So predictable :)

Why do important projects seem soooo boring & stuff you *probably* shouldn't do tease with fun?
Progress on Geeky Christmas is going well. I need to start pulling for Olivia's back (her top is still pinned to my design wall, but I'll take it down soon), I'm about 80% done with the blocks for Jaylen's, and all the squares for HSTs have been cut for Gabe's. We found the perfect main fabrics for the back of each boy's quilt (even though it required my sister to restitch 2 of the blocks). Zach's is stalled out & I *really* need to get going on Jackson. SO MUCH WORK.
So, of course...
I'm experimenting with improv blocks,
I'm making pink charm stars,
I'm trying an idea for a strip quilt that's pretty on-the-fly-designing.
While looking for pink fabrics in my stash, I pulled out 3 large print florals and lamented not knowing what to do with them. I saw someone's charity quilt that consisted of chunks of a floral separated by thin bars of sashing. All the chunks were uneven length, but the width was consistent. Seems easy enough, yes?
I pulled aside an almost 2yd piece of bright floral on brown, my favorite teal and white dot print, and a scrap of an orange circle print. The teal is supposed to be the sashing with the orange thrown in here and there...
I added some green strips.
And yellow.
Pink looks very tempting.
I can't keep anything simple :)

So the plan has changed again. The first cut is 6.5in wide and it'll be as long as the pieces I have allow. Then I'll subcut it into 50-55" lengths, then further subcut to add white sashings. The teal doesn't have enough contrast, so there will be white.
How long it'll take me to make this is unknown. I guess it won't be a quick overnight project, but if I like the end result, it'll all be worth it.
If I don't like it...well, my sister is always looking for another quilt ;)

At some point, I'll get this down :)

I tweet constantly, I update Facebook every other week or so-why is it so hard for me to remember to blog? :) With baseball season pretty much over for me (the home season ended on Wednesday), maybe I can get into this more regularly.
For sanity's sake (since I can't place pics properly in Blogger's mobile app), I'll separate all the postables into 2 posts. I'll start with the presents!
After Noah's quilt was finished and I was planning Zach's & Jackson's, my sister asked if I needed any help with the embroidery. She had helped on Noah's and she wanted to feel "useful" again. I ok'd it, then she had a bigger idea-she wanted to make quilts for her best friend's 3 kids. I'm not exactly sure what possessed me to say "yes", but I did :) So I had to design 3 different quilts that would fit 4 or so embroidered panels. Olivia would have pink, Jaylen red & Gabriel green (initially his was blue). It was pretty easy to agree on superheroes for the boys after she saw I picked that as Zach's theme-mine are from a coloring book, hers from chibi versions we found online (simpler & easier for her). Olivia was originally going to get something princessy or Hello Kitty-then she told her mama she wanted to be Darth Vader for Halloween. Bingo-she gets Star Wars :)
My sister's been pretty good at keeping up with her end of the commitment-my part is obviously much harder/more time-consuming. As of today, each boy has 2 embroidered pieces & Olivia's floppy is completed!

For Zach & Jackson-Zach has 2 completed pieces (of 4). I'm sort of designing as I go because the colors are actually very muted for a 3 year old. Originally he was going to have dinosaurs & use the same layout as Olivia, but now his has 20" stars. I'm considering upping his to 6 blocks so it starts as a 40x60 base, but I might stick with the 4 and add a panel with his name on it to add some length. These aren't bed-sized by any means-just a snuggle-in-the-car type.