Kaleidoscope Quilt

Okay... I've got all the pieces cut (well, except for the back) and I sewed together all my little triangle tops to make corner pieces and I sewed the first block. I think the best way to do this will be to set up all the blocks and sew first a solid to a pattern, then sew two of those together to make a half a block and then sew the halves together to make a full block. I didn't do that with the first one and it's a little wonky. Let's see if I actually frog it to make a new block. I'm so lazy these days and just think, "eh... it will come out in the quilting."  Will post some photos tomorrow. Too lazy tonight.


Miss Penn is starting to hit and to whine and throw things. Tonight she threw a cup at her father and a perfume bottle at me. I know she'll stop when she learns, but it's just so hard to explain it to her.

Photos of finished quilt

Here are some photos of the Mod Sampler Quilt after it was bound and quilted. It was my first foray into free-motion quilting and I loved it. I think for a third quilt it's pretty good. I have already mailed this quilt to it's owners last week and they received it and love it.

New quilt

I'm starting on my new kaleidoscope quilt. I'm using black, white, gray and yellow (gold) color combination. I hope that it works out. I'm using the pattern from Don't Call Me Betsy's Kaleidoscope quilt along and have almost finished cutting the 120 solid blocks. I need to choose another patterned fabric as I'm a little short in that department. I think it's going to come out good. I'm a little concerned that the color palette might not work with this design but I don't know...I will have to wait until all the pieces are laid out.

The other thing that I'm dealing with is the aftermath of nursing my daughter. She has just stopped having her night time nursing session and it has thrown my body into hormone overload. My acne is flaring up something fierce and I have a constant sour stomach along with general aches and pains. The increase in thyroid hormone is making me short of breath - so I didn't take my synthroid today - just because the lack of oxygen yesterday was a killer. I couldn't even sing kid songs in the car because I didn't have the air. CRAZY. Hopefully I'll start feeling back to normal here, soon.