Haphazardly Hobbying

Hello there, internets! Long time, no see. I know I’ve been missing from this blog for about four weeks, and I’m really sorry about that. Here’s a basic breakdown of what I’ve been doing: working, making travel plans, and quilting. Seriously, that’s it. On the day after Thanksgiving, I decided that I would make quilts [...]

So you probably remember this quilt (which I’m now calling the Circus Tent): Thanks to your comments, I decided to back it with this fabric: but as you should know by now I can’t ever leave well enough alone on a quilt backing. In theory I love the idea of a solid-fabric backing but in [...]

The fabulous Margueritte left to head back home yesterday afternoon. It’s likely the last time I’ll see her before she leaves for London for a YEAR, and I’m bumming out – I’m going to miss her!! I spent most of the week trying to juggle work and hanging out with Mags and other life-y things, [...]

So you might have noticed at this point that my blog title is pretty fitting (if also a little hard to spell, according to my “I’m-not-a-good-speller!” mother). My blog is a virtual representation of my slightly-ADD personality: I get on a kick and it is, for example, EVERYTHING QUILTING ALL THE TIME!! What I’m saying [...]

The top is finished and I’m putting the backing together – I can’t wait!!

Not much by way of an update this morning – I haven’t had coffee yet and am still pretty bleary – but I thought I’d share my progress: The finished top will be 7 rows of 6 squares and will have at least two borders, so I’ve still got quite a bit of work to [...]

Those of you that pay very close attention to my photos (I’m looking at you, Becky) probably caught a glimpse of things that look suspiciously like quilt blocks in Thursday’s post. This would be because I’m quilting up a storm lately. I have five – no, wait, six – quilts in progress at the moment. [...]

For the first time in what feels like FOREVER (which means: about six weeks), I’m working on a quilt again! I have a ‘sort of’ plan for this one – right now I’m just cutting & putting blocks together, so we’ll see how it goes. I’m also looking for some cute Christmas-y projects – email [...]

Good thing Matt is tall – I have no idea how I would have gotten pictures of this thing otherwise! Last week marked my second gift quilt finish. This is the one I’ve been calling “Technicolor Dreamcoat”; now that I’ve actually given it I can finally talk about it. I made it using Kim Schaeffer’s [...]

Ain’t it pretty? If only my links would work, I’d link up to the other posts I’ve written about this quilt, but, you know, still broken. Quick summation: this quilt is the first gift AND the first baby quilt I’ve finished – it’s for Darien, the eagerly awaited first child of my best friend from [...]

Saffy would like to take this moment to remind the internets that she is just as cute as Homer, thankyouverymuch. Please, sir, can I have some more? In other news, now that I’ve got my coupon binder out of the way, I’m trying to finish the baby quilts that should have been done, oh, three [...]

Even with all my company in this week, I managed to get some work in on various projects. Unfortunately, though, I added a few new projects to the list, too, so I don’t know if we can really count any of this as ‘forward progress’. You be the judge. Cat Cabinet Thanks to Dave and [...]

My first quilt was kind of an impulse. I had been sewing little things for about a week, and came across a kit for a lap quilt in Joann’s for $14. I figured, why not? The colors were ones I knew Matt would like, and so I deemed it his soon-to-be Couch Blanket and got [...]

Even blurry, I still loooove that owl. This is one of the other quilts I’m working on at the moment. I used this simple tutorial – it was super easy and fun to put together. Surprisingly, I actually have all the fabric/supplies to finish this one already (remember my tagline: overzealous and underprepared? Well, it [...]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that anything placed on the floor must be in want of a cat (to sit on it). This is a quilt I’m working on at the moment. I adapted it from this free pattern – I thought it showed off the gorgeous fabric nicely but since the fabric line [...]