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 ;)

Finished! :)

I've been really sporadic about posting, so I have no clue if I've mentioned this project ._. Anyway-finished quilt!
Don't have the greatest pics, but I'll post what I have. It's ~48x56 inches and meant for a 3 year old cousin. 16 patches in a pretty limited color scheme for me (red/orange/yellow with black/white/gray) but definitely not a limited pattern range! :) There are 4 embroidered blocks with different firefighter things & a pieced back. The brown hydrant print was too cute to pass up (since there's no brown on the front), so I stretched it with yellow sashing, more 16 patches and a strip of red on one end (last second recovery attempt). Machine quilted in a grid except for the echo quilting around the embroidered parts. Machine sewn red/white houndstooth binding (LOVE).

What Excited Me Last Night...

ooh. That could be the lead-in to a very cheeky post! I'm just getting fabric-excited though...no silly boy stuff right now! ;)

While bloghopping one night, I came across Tonya's-possibly insane, definitely awesome-attempt to tame some "uglies" into playing well with others.  This is *right* up my alley! I have loads of scraps from when I was first starting that were salvaged from old clothing, the remnant bin at JoAnns, estate sales...some pretty gnarly stuff. Doesn't fit the bright colorways I tend to choose these days. So I pulled a couple of strips-30 or so-and started to chop. I subcut these 1.5" strips into lengths as short as 2 inches, as long as 6. The plan is to make a ridiculously long piece and...

guess you'll have to wait til I have a pic :D