Works in Progress Wednesday

Yes, that's snow in the background.  We still have lots.

I thought I would take one last picture outside in the snow,

before the rest of it melts.

Even though we're all pretty sick of winter,

I love how photos look with snow in the background, so crisp and white!

I've been working on bottled rainbows all week.

I decided to make them a little smaller (these measure 10 3/4 inches square),

because I already had a stack of batting cut into 11 inch squares,

for a project I started several years ago.

(It's amazing what you find when you clean out your sewing space!)

This project is going to be a wall hanging for my sewing space,

so I don't want it to get too big.  

Still working on these rainbow scrap pennant blocks, too.

I haven't made any more, but I did FMQ the white portions in a small meandering design.  These are a bit of work to piece together, but quilting them is fun.

I'll need A LOT more, though -- as this is headed for a quilt for Lexi's bed.

She LOVES rainbows.

My biggest work in progress has been cleaning up and organizing my sewing space.  Here's a sneak peak of some progress:

I had this crazy idea that in order to completely organize everything,

I needed more pincushions.

It would be IMPOSSIBLE to organize my pins without new pincushions, right?!

These are Heather Bailey's Square Deal pincushions, free pattern found here.

Making these was a bit frustrating.

The button drove me nuts -- I used a "no tools" kit for this, which made me see very clearly that I do need a button making tool -- I'm assuming these exist?!

And trying to pull ribbon through the center of the pincushion was a crazy idea,

even with a pliers and "some patient wiggling" as the pattern suggests.

But anyway, I'm happy to have them done,

and I think they look pretty cute on the shelf.

Hopefully I'll finish up the re-organization tomorrow!

 I've made very little progress this week on my double hourglass (hand quilting)
or the paper pieced goldfish in bags.
But once I get the sewing space done, it's back to work on these WIPs!

Have fun checking out other WIPs here: