Design Wall Monday--January 24, 2011

I managed to get quite a bit done this week despite being in the trailer.  It's difficult sewing in the trailer because I manage to get everything spread out so that every flat surface is taken up by something.  I've learned to do one thing at a time.  Cut only.  Or sew only.  Or applique only.  That way I have only one thing out at a time and it's a lot less oppressive. 

I got done with my January UFO stars, and so I'm finished with my January UFO now.  (And I'm nearly finished with February's stitchery too!)  This is the 6-inch Star of Hope:

And this is the 12-inch Star of Hope:

The quilt has one more six-inch Star of Hope and two nine-inch ones.  I'll work on those next (unless I decide to do something else).

Then I finished the pinwheels and rail fences on my Kitten's Tale block:

I have two more of these BOM's with me.  I wasn't sure my iron was hot enough to do applique, but I worked on yet another applique project this week (see below), and it worked just fine. 

This new quilt I started is for some friends, Larry and Tracy.  I talked about them and the quilt in a different post (scroll down to the bottom of the link).  I got the frog blocks done this week:



As I said in my earlier post, this quilt is intended for a child.  But they call their place the "Dancing Frog Ranch," and so I think they'll like this even though they're grown-ups.  Here's what the picture from the quilt pattern looks like, but I'm not going to do the little fish faces on the orange blocks--just regular blocks.  That should help "grow it up" a little bit.  Larry and Tracy will like it either way.



Now I'm looking forward to seeing what the rest of you accomplished this week.  Til next week, take care.