The Eighth Star Block
I finished up this star just before I headed to Toronto, but actual knitting content got in the way of me posting it before now. I'm rather happy with how this star turned out. The center looks good and the kaleidoscope effect works well. This is the eighth star in my Groovy Stack n' Whack project. I am now officially 2/3rds of the way through the star creation process.
Unfortunately, this project (and all my other quilting projects) have been in a holding pattern for a while as John and I re-organize our office space. This re-organization process has definitely been one of those "gets worse before it gets better" sort of things with boxes and books and craft supplies everywhere as we figure out what goes together with what and what should just go. The purging process is certainly therapeutic in a lot of ways, but it also cuts into time that I would normally spend crafting. It's also hard to do too much sewing when your machine is surrounded by things that you need to put away or get rid of. This weekend we made a lot of progress, so I'm hoping that a few more quilt blocks for this project will start to materialize.
I've actually been feeling a bit guilty about my quilting projects -- Serenity remains to be quilted, and there is still a good deal more sewing of strips remaining in my Blooming 9 Patch. I have a good excuse for Serenity -- I need to pin everything out on the floor, and I'm finding it hard to be on my hands and knees much since one of my hips gives me a lot of trouble when I try that. But I have no such excuse for the 9-patch project. Ah well, there is a time for everything, I suppose, and life is too short to spend a lot of it feeling guilty about craft projects that don't progress as fast as one would like.
That is an exceptional block. The curving lines of flowers are very graceful.
Your quilt blocks are beautiful. I can't wait to see the finished product! I remember trying to do a sewing project while hugely pregnant. Crawling around on the floor and late stage pregnancy just don't mix. Good luck! :-)
You must be quite pleased with how that block turned out.
Re the quilting progress. Don't sweat the small stuff, especially when you've got a baby on the way.
I love this one! And, you are right -- don't feel guilty, you've got a big project you are working on right now that takes a lot of energy!
This block is lovely, as are the others. I feel your pain regarding the reorganizing! My spinning buddy came over this past Saturday and we didn't spin - we spent 4 hours reorganizing my yarn and knitting books. She went home with lots of presents, needless to say, and I couldn't have done it without her. My basement (where my yarn, needles, books and fiber live) is much cleaner and I can now find all of my books. The reorganizing is always a dreadful mess - you have to pull everything out in order to get it cleaned up and it gets worse before it gets better. Hang in there!
i just bought & built a handquilting frame -- which i don't plan to use for handquilting but rather for pinbasteing so i don't have to crawl around on the floor anymore. :)
I love the sort of swirl effect you get from the yellows on this block. Very nice. I need to do the pull out and organize thing too, only I'm scared to. I'm afraid I'll get overwhelmed and just stand there gibbering until someone carts me off to the funny farm. Where, if there are sheep, I'll just start stash enhancing all over again. If it makes you feel better about how you haven't quilted Serenity yet, I have quilt projects from 10 years ago or more that I still haven't actually quilted. So you're doing great.