Some of you may remember this quilt:

I've had to take a break from the commission quilt I'm working on (instructions: "To be inspired by Saucy Divo but not be the same as Saucy Divo".

I'm done everything but the outer border on the top, but need to go the Fashion District to pick up fabric for the said border and the backing - I'm thinking a lovely chocolate brown ultrasuede or perhaps a coppery coloured linen - but as the Fashion District is only open during the same hours I have to be at my day job, I won't be able to get the fabric until this weekend. I am therefore on hold until then. I'm liking what I've got so far(taken at 5:45 a.m.) and I think I've got the "inspired by not not the same as" part down.

So, yesterday afternoon I worked on my summer wardrobe - completed one dress that, it turns out, looks terrible on me - *hah!* - it's not the sewing, merely the style - so I'll have to take that apart and make something else out of it. And I got most of the way through another one. This week - I'll be working on my birthday blocks (which I'm behind on!), a round robin quilt that I'm part of, and getting my Pay it Forward prizes done.

Busy, busy!

I started out with a clean, but old and impossibly stained tablecloth, which I cut into 10.5 inch squares:


This box of shiny strips was then brought into play:


And some experimentation began.



Oh dear! That's a definite "no".



Mayyyyyybeeeeee... if I tweak it a bit...

Flipping them over, and what the heck is THAT?



Is it starting to make sense now?

Hm. Stay tuned. :)

In the meantime, Jessie (ever helpful) suggests:



a nap.

Today after work, I finally managed to take pictures of my latest quilt, "Oma's Pocketbook", which I took in our still fallow garden, with a dying battery in the setting sun.

So, first of all, I had to write all of your names down. And then, I had to put them in a little, tiny, container (after first emptying out the push pins that normally live in it. What else would you put in such a tiny container, I ask you?)

And then, I enlisted the help of Beloved Spouse to do the drawing:

Resulting in... *drum roll*





So, Quilterbear, Cyrstal and Fiercefemme, I need the following information from you:

1. What is your favourite children's story?
2. What are your three favourite colours in order of preference?
3. What is your favourite animal?
4. Briefly describe your physical self
5. What is your mailing address?

Email this information to me at divaquilts@gmail.com, and post the Pay It Forward contest to your own blogs; and over the next week, I will get busy making you a hand-made something.

Whee! :)

I finished the quilt I was working on!

Okay, techincally, I realize that it's now May 1, and not April 30 anymore, but in reality I haven't been to bed yet, ergo, it's still April 30. Right? Right.

Since it's 1:15 in the morning and I have to get up at 6:00 to go to work, and since I have not yet trimmed all the threads, I'm not posting a picture - but I did manage to complete three projects for Spring to Finish.

Mis-steps
A Day at the Zoo
and
Oma's Purse

I won't be posting pics tommorrow, because it's Beloved Spouse and my date night, but over the weekend expect to see it.

Yay! :)