WIP Wednesday: Cairo Snow Day

We obviously don't have real snow days in Cairo, instead civil insurrection sometimes makes it impossible to go to work.  This entire week I've been waking up and immediately checking my blackberry to see if I've been instructed not to come in or whether there's been a delayed opening, which makes me feel like I'm back in school and waiting for word on whether there's a snow day.  I haven't had a full day of work so far this week, which has done wonders for getting sewing projects done.

So far I've completed my strip and flip baby quilt and my grandmother's birthday pillow.

 

I've finished my small plates quilt top and am going to start basting and quilting it later this week.

I've also started pulling fabrics to make my Valentine quilt from A Practical Guide to Patchwork.

photo my colleague took on the way into work yesterday

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Fenced In Quilt Top!

All the blocks have been completed and rows joined together!  I tweaked the pattern a little bit, apart from making a smaller version (16 blocks instead of 36), I also changed the measurements slightly since I wanted to make sure I'd have enough fabric from my fat quarters.  As a result, my blocks are more squares than rectangles and I didn't think through the implications this would have for adding sashing.  It all worked out well with some minor adjustments.  I think it would have been better to follow the pattern faithfully since it would have been a little more forgiving in terms of hiding when the square blocks weren't exactly squares.  From a distance it isn't too obvious when the blocks didn't meet up at least.

Now I need to decide what to do about the quilt back!  I definitely can't follow the pattern for this one since I don't have enough leftover fabric, though I think I do want to incorporate whatever is left as well as use the remaining fat quarters from the bundle.

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block by block

Well, I'm making progress on my Fenced In quilt.  The blocks are slowly coming together.  Pretty soon it'll be time to add the sashing and join them all together!

completed blocks!

I've decided on this gray tiny dot print from Bonnie & Camile's Ruby line for the sashing.  I had wanted to do a gray solid, but there isn't enough in my stash and I am too impatient to order it and wait for it to arrive in Egypt.  :)