Hungry Caterpillar Finish

I'm so excited about this quilt.  It's bright and cheery, and I love Hungry Caterpillar.  Both of my children recognized the caterpillar right away and started "reading" the book on the quilt.

I don't know what it is about baby quilts that always make me resort back to loopy line quilting, but I love how spread out you can make the design.  I added hearts and stars to the loopy lines this time around to give it a little more interest:

Now that Ben's quilt is done I'd say he can come at any time, but since I still have 10 weeks until my due date I think it would be better not to jump the gun quite so soon.  I suppose I should start actually getting the house cleaned up and ready for his arrival. 

Linkin' up to TGIFF and Link-a-Finish-Friday.  

WIPing it!

It's been a while since I've actually done a WIP post, because I haven't been all that organized with my sewing lately.  I thought this would be a good way for me to figure out what exactly is on my list of things to do and make sense of my current projects.

I finished up the quilting on my February Skill Builder Blocks last night.  This is Em Dash:

 It's a Zigzag Spiral in the dashes.  Here's a look at the back:

The block before was The Mood:

I still need to piece together my Skill Builder blocks for March.  However, I'm up to date on Do. Good Stitches.  I just finished the wonky stars a couple days ago:

Baby Ben quilt is layered and all ready to be quilted.  My goal is to try to get this quilt done by the end of the week:

Other projects
Sisters BOM- up to date
4x5 Modern Quilt Bee- I need to decide on a block and make 5 of them
Quiet Book - Ugh.  No progress.
Christmas quilt - nada nada limonada

Stats for the Week:
New projects - 0
Completed projects - 0
WIP- 6
Linking up to WIP Wednesday. 

Spiral Mess

I have a number of things that need to be quilted.  I finally got around to quilting one of my Skill Builder blocks from February.  I wanted to work on spirals, so I found the perfect design for it.  Leah refers to it as Spiral Mess, and I think it fits its name perfectly:

 View from the back:

 ps- I think Spirals are a ton of fun to quilt. 

Wonky Stars

This month's block for do.Good Stitches is the Wonky Star.  We had to make two 14" wonky blocks (one with a tan background and one with a gray background):

I love wonky stars, so these were a lot of fun to make.

Ides of March

It just occurred to me that March is already half way over and I haven't sewn a thing - so sad!  I started making a list of the things I'm supposed to get done in March and then I remembered I never finished the quilting on the Skill Builder blocks from February either.  Oops.  Looks like it's time to get sewing.  During nap time today I pieced together the 2 March Blocks for Sisters Modern BOM: School Girl's Puzzle. 

Dancing on 42nd Street

This past weekend I made my annual pilgrimage back to my hometown to see the high school musical that my best friend's mom (from high school) choreographs.  This year they performed 42nd Street.  It's an old-school musical (it won the Tony in 1980 and again in 2001 for the revival) that is about behind the scenes of the production of a Broadway musical.  It's full of chorus-line girls and all the typical Broadway characters like the arrogant producer, the famous but not all that talented diva, and the starry-eyed chorus girl from a small town.  It actually has a number of really well known songs.  Most people have heard of We're in the Money and The Lullaby of Broadway even if they don't know where the songs originally came from.

Source

I'm not as huge of a fan of old-school musicals, but I have to say that these kids did a killer job on the dancing.  I've never seen so much dancing in a high school musical before and it was almost all tap dancing.  Most of these kids had never had any dance exposure before, and tap dancing is one of the most difficult genres of dance to just randomly pick up, so Cathy did a phenomonal job with them.  I was seriously so impressed with their dancing.  Even the guys did a great job tap dancing. 

Just a funny little side note on how far removed from the high school scene I am:  The director and choreographer of my high school musicals were married, and during my senior year the choreographer was pregnant.  They had a little girl.  It was that little girl who, as a Junior in high school, was the lead in 42nd Street this weekend.  Time certainly flies by quickly.

Blocks Are In!

I got the last of my 5 blocks from the Winter Round of 4x5 Modern Quilt Bee in the mail yesterday!  They are all wonderful!  I now have 10 blocks in these colors (purple, turquoise, and gray with a black background), so I'm going to do one more round before I put together a quilt top.