We’ve been back in San Francisco now for nearly a week, but an icky head cold, two days of dental work (fun!), nasty rainy weather and general almost-8-months-pregnant laziness set in to keep me away from the craft room! I finally felt better today and got started on a project I’ve been wanting to make for months. I think the next 6 weeks or so will be taken up with larger-scale baby-centric projects like this one, so I’m going to break my rules about showing works in progress, as if I don’t, I won’t have anything to show you at all! I’ve started with my take on the Someone To Watch Over You wall hanging in Last Minute Patchwork and Quilted Gifts. Due to the aforementioned terrible weather, the light was no good for a picture, and since it is just the pieced top of the quilted wall hanging, you can see the upholstery of the window seat through it (sorry).
I am not sure I love the fabric combination (the background is white with pale pink polka dots, if you can’t tell), but I think the pattern is just beautiful, and totally worth all of the fiddling with the bird applique. I made some serious measurement errors somewhere, so it is not as long or as wide as it is supposed to be and I had to fudge it a bit. I’m still blind stitching the bird applique to the trunk and background, then have to quilt and bind it. If you have any suggestions about binding fabric, please share– I had a little fantasy of a pale beige stripy seersucker binding, but that involves going to the fabric store, finding just the right thing and then prewashing it when I get home. Which in my current state of laziness and i-will-melt-if-i-go-out-in-the-rain-again means the hanging may NEVER be finished. And then the second large-scale baby project would never even get started. So, I may end up just binding it with something pink I already have. I hope to finish quilting it this weekend and will make my final binding decision once that is done!
p.s. If you haven’t seen it already, there is a set of photos from our trip to Hawaii on Flickr– there are lots of sunrises, sunsets, pretty views and sea turtles, along with a bunch of killer shots of Moondoggie riding the waves!