Vintage English Paper Piecing ...

Progress is happening on the Vintage Diamonds ...

And, while I'm progressing with this step, I'm making layout plans for the next step ...

The center section, in color, is the exact amount of diamond stars I can make with the neat vintage fabric I've got right now. Naturally, I want it to be the centerpiece of a bigger quilt. So, it'll need borders.

I've got a couple of ideas going, so it will be interesting to see which direction I go with the border. (Will it be postage-stamp-nine-patches, or diamond-cubes? Or rows of end-to-end diamonds?) Aaand, it will be interesting to see whether I decide to go with coordinating solids for the border, or whether I talk myself into buying a little more vintage fabric for the border ...

Stay tuned ...

In other news, I've been doing a lot more of this:

Look for another denim-type blog post soon ...

Work In Progress Wednesday at Freshly Pieced is a fun spot to see stitching works in progress ... I'm linking this post there. Check the link or button to see the latest!

New quilt, new quilter ...

My oldest daughter has been wanting to learn to use the rotary-cutting tools ... She's getting good at quilt-sewing, but she hasn't tackled rotary-cutting yet.

The time has come. 

We've had some fun fabric around that we thought would make a great "living-room-quilt" for football season. Since we just got another piece of said sports-fabric, she set about designing what this quilt might look like. Triangles, big squares, little squares, borders ...

The calculations got done, and the fabric-cutting went well.

I had the rare opportunity to get out BOTH cutters and BOTH mats, since she got the hang of the cutting process, and she thought I should go ahead and do some cutting at the same time. 

Stay tuned for progress reports ...

More Very Tiny Hexagons

The other day, I mentioned the very tiny hexagons I started working on. Here are the latest cute tiny hexagons ... too fun. Tedious, but so cute, and so fun.

And, in case you've forgotten how tiny those other ones were ...

Still planning to stitch them onto something square-ish and white-ish so that they can be Christmas tree ornaments when they grow up ...

Oh! Link Parties are back for the new year! I'm linking this post to the ones below. Click on the links or buttons below to see some great collections of recent sewing projects!

Little Quilt Monday is back at Pieceful Life! I'm linking this post there!

And, Take Your Time Tuesdays are back at So Happy To Sew!

Christmas Inspiration ...

Since I've finished the Christmas Hexagons, I've been getting inspired to work on some related things ~ I got started on Diamond English Paper Piecing, and Very Tiny Vintage English Paper Piecing ... But also, since it was so fun to prepare something neat for Christmas, I've also been inspired to work on something Christmassy sometime between now and next Christmas.

I've got just enough of this sweet Christmas fabric to make a Christmas tree skirt:

Since I want it to look quilty, I'll be trying out some bits of coordinating fabric and some layouts to see what I like ... but hey, I've got time, right? It's a looooong time till Christmas!

Happy New Year to you and yours!

Little Quilt Circles

I had such fun making this quilt for my newest baby niece ...

Here's a close-up ... I was pleased with how the hand-quilted circles in matching colors turned out ...

There were more pictures, but the computer ate them somewhere  between the SD card and the hard drive.  (Yikes.)

This quilt has been in progress for a few weeks ... I mentioned it in this post and in this post ... And I drew a lot of inspiration from this quilt and these blocks, as well as a circles quilt in this book ...

The rainbow look was fun (I love variety!), and the crazy-quilty-ness was fun (I love "made fabric"!), and the circles were fun (I love quilt circles!). 

Fun quilt. And I'm excited for my sister and her family as they welcome their newest little one. 

Vintage-Fabric Hexagons

Since I had some scraps leftover from the vintage fabrics I cut for my Diamond English Paper Piecing, I wanted to make something "mini" ... but I wasn't sure what. 

After I finished the Christmas Hexagons, I thought I might take a break from hexagons for a while. I started on the Vintage Diamonds, and then I kept thinking of cute things to do with hexagons ...

Voila! Perfect solution! With the vintage scraps ... I made a few hexagons ...

And, for perspective ... this is what size this is:

Yes! That tiny! Even my little helpers are overwhelmed by the cuteness.

I'll probably turn this into some sort of Christmas ornament for some other year. More to come, probably. And, since tiny hexagons are such a tiny project, they're very portable. Nice.

Finished Socks ...

A couple of times, I've mentioned the lavendar socks I've been knitting ... This weekend, during some Christmas-Eve-relaxing time, I got the toes finished on the socks! 

The timing was perfect for finishing these - partly because I had just enough time to sit and knit over the weekend, and partly because a certain small helper of mine had spilled my coffee on the sock-project the day before.  (Yes. Coffee. With sugar and cream. Right into the partly-open-ziplock-bag full of sock-knitting.) So, my dilemma was whether to finish the socks soon so I could wash them, or whether to somehow wash the socks-and-yarn and then let-it-all-dry before finishing. I just knitted the socks-that-smelled-like-coffee ... and washed them afterward. Too funny! 

I mentioned these socks in a couple of previous blog posts (here and here) - I'm so pleased to have these finished! 

Stay tuned for more knitting news! I've got some really cute self-striping sock yarn to start my next pair of socks ...