Lizzy House's Sparkle Punch Quilt

Back in August I started the process of cutting up strips of carefully hoarded collected Lizzy House fabrics from her Castle Peeps, 1001 Peeps, Outfoxed and Hello Pilgrim collections to make a Wonky Stars/Sparkle Punch quilt, per Elizabeth Hartman's quilt-along tutorial. Between the 4 collections I had enough to have a whole star out of each fabric without duplicates, and only needed to omit maybe 2 or 3 fabrics.

I still flinch a little inwardly thinking about the fact that I had to cut 384 3.5" squares, and that was just the white background fabric. So many squares!

The squares ended up living in a box for a while due to our move, and then went neglected through the holidays. Here and there I'd pull them out and sew points or press, and sew more points, etc. Finally about a week and a half ago I started assembling all the parts, and now I can strike that top off the To Do list! This weekend's weather has been lovely (though Jeff's allergies aren't agreeing with that at all!) and so I took it outside with another finish to photograph. Sadly that one will need me to take it outside another day and redo the pictures because they all managed to be slightly out of focus.

Now I need to decide on what to back it with and how to bind it. I have some square components left and can make a number of scrappy stars. Beyond that, I'm not sure, maybe some Kona Ash or a slightly darker grey.

WIP Wednesday #9

I'm feeling pretty good about the progress I made on the weekend with my brother's quilt, which only has the hand-stitching on the binding left. A task that's being accomplished in the evenings whilst watching TV.

Then there was the Flip Side top I finished, which now moves towards another stage of completion. Or, rather, the stack of finished quilt tops that need assembling and quilting. With that one, I have the backing fabric, and won't need to agonize over the choices for a pieced back (Ghastlies quilt, I'm looking at you! And my Lotta Jansdotter Echo quilt for that matter.)

Over the past few days, though, I've been working on a Sparkle Punch (Wonky Stars) quilt. I'd cut 3.5" wide strips of about 81 Lizzy House fabrics back in April, and now came time to convert those strips into squares. 80 pairs of 5 squares for whole stars, and then more squares for the partial stars.

Monday I sliced up some white cotton for the 384 neutral squares I'd need. Then more cutting as most of the patterned squares needed slicing into triangles. Presently I'm sewing the star points. Hopefully by the weekend I can get most of those sewn, trimmed and sewn some more and ready to plan the layout of the entire quilt.

Echo sitting on a project in a more embryonic stage, which will be an adapted Jaybird Quilts' Chopsticks quilt, with Wrenly fabric and Kona solids. This will have to wait a little longer, as I want to clear a few more WIPs off the list, or make some more progress on them first, before I end up with a huge stack of quilt tops and too few finished quilts.

NYCC Sunday Stash

While I was at New York Comic Con mid-October, it was nice to come home after very long days to find packages of fabric waiting for me on the porch.

Among the goodies some additional Ghastlies prints (who can resist? well, I certainly can't!) Different colorways of prints I already had:


The Ghastlies in smoke, and Ghastly Bramble in natural/tea(?)

The Ghastlies I got because I still need to piece together a back for my Ghastly Taffy quilt. And because the Ghastlies are just amazing. I was happy to read the other day that Alexander Henry is bringing them back again, and adding another new print too. May 2012 is going to be fun!


A charm pack of Summer House by Lily Ashbury.

I really love the vibrant, bright colors in this collection. I think the Audrey print in Bright Blue is probably my favorite one:


The vibrancy of this print gets me every time. Delicious.

I finally broke down and added to my Lizzy House collection by picking up 1001 Peeps:



I think this may be my favorite print from that collection in my two favorite colors:


The candles are adorable!

And what is possibly my favorite print from Jessica Levitt's Kingdom line:


Posy in Opal. The light in this picture really doesn't do it justice.

And each colorway of my favorite Happy Mochi Yum Yum print:


So cute and so colorful!

Now to clear more projects out of the way, and come up with things to do with this stuff!