WIP Wednesday: With guest host Lucy from Charm About You
Happy June everyone! I am Lucy and I blog at Charm About You. Mum of three, crazy in love with my husband and total fabric addict from Manchester, UK.
To be honest I have so many WIPs and not enough time to take pictures of them so I'm going to show you the things I'm currently loving working on...
My Rose Star quilt has been in progress since December 2011 and I'm finally working on the borders. The instigator of my English Paper Piecing love and the rose star block tutorial is by Clare at Selfsewn. It's one of those ongoing projects that gets picked up and put down between other things I'm working on, but since I received these gorgeous fabrics in a low volume swap, organised by my awesome friend Rebecca, I am motivated to finish the borders and get to work on hand quilting.
I started one of those 'just because' projects the other day—you will have seen snippets of this if you follow my blog or IG. After seeing Svetlana's adorable slippers I got a copy of Stitch Magazine (Summer 2011) because I found it on sale. If you want to make some you can get the brilliant pattern by Ayumi here. The soles are quilted and I'm working on quilting the top parts, then proper construction can begin:
I've also made progress on my le challenge project. Le Challenge is another blog I host with my talented friend Nat from Made in Home. Every month we set a theme and have a link party for finishes on the 15th of each month, with one random link winning a $25 gift certificate to the Fat Quarter Shop. You can create something with any type of art or craft, and this month's theme is CHARITY. I am planning to do some free motion quilting on this quilt top and I hope I can get finished in time (FYI a finished quilt top will count as a finish in the link party, I'm just trying to push myself!).
When I saw the beautiful hexy quilted ottoman that Adrianne made last summer I had to make one. The pattern is by Penny at Stitch Playroom. Because I used this dotty curtain fabric I felt like the centre needed something else. I was going to save this to show when I'd finished the whole thing but I finished it, love it and here seems as good a place as any to show it off ;)
I used DMC soluble canvas to cross stitch this pattern based on the famous Robert Indiana design. It is a perfect choice as it will always make me smile and is a reminder of our honeymoon, part of which was in New York. I can't wait to finish this ottoman and put my feet up while I'm hand sewing!
Thank you to Lee for having me, and come and visit Charm About You to see these WIPs finished (eventually)!
And what are you working on this week? Here are the linky rules:
1. Link up any blog post from the past week that features an unfinished work-in-progress (WIP).
2. Somewhere in your post, you must link back here to my blog.
3. Comment on at least a few of the other WIP Wednesday links—commenting on the two or three links directly before yours works well to make sure everyone gets comments!