The first quilt I worked on will be for my niece. It needs to be twin-sized as she will be moving into a big girl bed soon. I am using the Sweet Pea pattern by Heather Mulder Peterson and pink and purple fabrics - perfect for a 3 1/2 year old!
The second one I pulled out and worked on is a quilt I started for my Dad a couple of years ago. He is an avid fisherman and I found some cute fish fabric that is perfect for a quilt for him. I bought some coordinating fabric at the same time, and started a simple pattern of framed squares to highlight the fish. Unfortunately I did not have enough of the coordinating fabrics and by the time I realized I needed more I couldn't find them anymore (of course!). I sewed the blocks together thinking I would just make it work but it was way too small and ever since then it has been abandoned in the UFO pile. I actually found some of one of the fabrics recently and pulled it back out. I have decided to just find some additional fabrics that match and make it more of a scrappy quilt. Here are the blocks I made today. I am going to have to unsew the blocks I had originally sewn together, but those are not in the pic.
As a reward for getting organized and making some progress on these quilts, I raided the stash to find fabric to start a new project. I want to do the Great Granny Square Quilt Along that is going on at Bee in My Bonnet. I found two layer cakes that are orphans in my stash, so I may just end up making two of these quilts, since I couldn't choose between the two. (ugh!)
Tomorrow will be a quilty day, too, so I should have more progress to show. Gotta go, I have a lot cutting to do!
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