Zig Zag Quilt: WIP
43 weeks ago
by Erin
My partially completed Zig Zag Quilt
Remember how I said in this post how I don’t like to have more than one project going at a time? Oops. I do now! I have put my Chasing Chevrons quilt on hold and started this zig zag quilt. It’s for a very special little girl in need, but I’m going to wait on the reveal until I get the OK from her parents.
The pattern I’m making up as I go along, but it’s based on this quilt by Rita at Red Pepper Quilts. I think I’m going to do purple instead of black pieces, though. And ALL the material is from my scraps bin or my stash. Hooray for a scrap buster!! And I can tell you where each scrap came from… but if you just look at the quilts in this post you’ll find them soon enough! 
So on my to-do, list continuing from this post:
JD’s Silly Safari Quilt (in progress)Complete!!My niece’s Christmas present (sleeping bag)Complete!!- Chasing Chevrons (in progress)
- My husband’s T-Shirt Quilt (picked out the shirts to use)
- A scrap quilt (doing zig zags)
- Doily Quilt (bought the fabric!)
Happy Wednesday! I’m going out to my parents’ house in Orange County to watch my nephew. Normally his Grammi (my mom) watches him while my sister and her husband are at work, but my Mom needs to go to the hospice today to visit HER mother… Unfortunately she’s very, very sick. It’s been coming for a long time now, so we’re not surprised, but it’s still sad. Happiness and sadness in the same day, isn’t that how life works?
My gal Ruby!
24 weeks ago
by Erin
When I first started out quilting, I bought fabric on an as-needed basis. As in, only go to the fabric store when I need material for a new project, and only buy the fabric I need. I started reading quilting blogs and I realized that a lot of quilters don’t do that; they save every scrap of fabric left over from a project for their “scraps” pile. And they buy fabric just because they like it, without any specific purpose in mind, and add it to their “stash.” The concept was completely foreign to me… until Ruby.
Lovely, lovely Ruby.
When Ruby came out, I fell in love! I drooled over the prints in the collection. I saw all the wonderful projects that quilters in the blogosphere were making and was intensely jealous. I put Ruby on my Christmas list, hoping Santa would bring her to me. Alas, no such luck. Then last week I noticed some my favorite online stores SELLING OUT of Ruby. I panicked! We were about to be separated forever! I couldn’t let that happen. Ruby HAD to me mine.
When I saw that the Forth Worth Fabric Studio still had some Ruby on sale, I jumped. I still can’t justify shelling out $100+ for a line of fabric, so the Fat Quarter bundle was out. I happily ended up with a Layer Cake and a Charm Pack:
My gal Ruby!
I couldn’t be more pleased or excited!! I can’t wait until I can start a project with my new fabrics. Maybe this Ruby, Pearl and Opal quilt? This Georgia Quilt? Expand this Cathedral Window project into a quilt? A bigger version of this? For as long as it took me to decide to BUY some Ruby, it will probably take me twice as long to decide what to do with it.
What are some of your favorite projects made using Ruby?
Sick!
01 month ago
by Erin
So on Christmas Eve, my husband came home from work feeling a little under the weather. We took it easy that night and he went to bed early. Unfortunately, to no avail. 
He woke up Christmas morning feeling absolutely awful and stayed in bed all day. I managed not to catch his illness… until the day before New Year’s Eve!
I didn’t feel too bad on NYE, but New Year’s day I spent on the couch and after exerting myself too much on Wednesday, I came down with a little fever. So please forgive my lack of blogging!
When I have felt well enough, I’ve been working on the Chasing Chevrons quilt along that Jennifer is hosting. I kept thinking while I was sick on the couch, how much I wished I had a comfy quilt to snuggle up with rather than my fleece blankets that were making me too hot! After receiving my Coal Kona fabric I got to cutting… and cutting… and cutting… then pressing… pressing… pressing… and then cutting AGAIN! I think I finally finished all my cutting for this quilt, thank god!! 
This is what all of my chevrons will look like once I’m done sewing them together.
My chevrons!
I’m so excited!! I can’t wait to get step 2 (can you believe I’m only on step 2??) OVER and DONE with and move on to piecing the quilt top together!!
