Number Three

So third baby quilt of the year...
I was thinking something like this (without the fish, possibly with the babys name)

Here Fishy Fishy (link  in picture)

backed up with 

Baby Life by Vanessa from V and Co (link in picture)

I think I'm on to a winner

Progress!

Two updates required! 

1) Broken Herringbone

My pictures suck but you get the point... all the blocks are pieced! Boom Baby!

These where a little tricky to do because the tutorial is done by a lefty - there where some WTF moments but I got there in the end.

All it needs is some sashing/boarders and the top is complete.

2) Perpendicular Ovals 

The top is finished!! This quilt is a monster, I put it on the bed to get a picture and it wouldn't fit - way bigger than I imagined it would be (zero clue how I'm going to quilt this btw! how is it even going to fit in my machine?)

So now all I have to do is figure out the backing and quilt those suckers

I'm on fire baby!!

And breathe...

Soooo my friend who's getting married? yea she just dropped a bomb - she's pregnant!! 
On one hand "Yes!!! super cute baby!" on the other "crap I have 3 quilts that are all 'due' in quick succession"  I'm going to have heart failure! 
1) Sisters Baby - Due early December
2) Friends Baby - Due January-ish
3) Friends Wedding Quilt - Due end of March (I know, 2 months - she's having more heart trouble than I am lol)

I haven't even started my sisters one yet...... it's times like these when I loath having to go to work!

So off to find another baby quilt pattern..... blimey!

Shades of white....

And the winner is...

1)Kona Oyster 2) Moda Snow 3) Moda White
 4) Moda Ivory 5) Moda Natural 6) Moda Etching Stone

White. (Moda Bella White to be precise). Thrilling I know.

The difference in shade is really easy to see in the picture for some reason! In person the only one that stands out as really different in the Etching Stone. 

So after about 1 minute (if that) of looking at these shades of white (and beige) I went with white - shocking.

The dullest fabric deliberation I have ever had.

Perpendicular Ovals - Piecing Progres

Sorting out where the blocks where going to go was.... interesting. My bedroom floor was just about big enough - I couldn't walk around the edges (That definitely put a stop to unnecessary fiddling)

So now that part is done its time to get on with sewing the sections together. I'm going to piece it in small segments of 4x4 (or 3x4 at the end) and then sew those together, I think that makes the most sense (see below).

As you can see from the picture above the size of the quilt has changed (I did say that might happen!). When I was laying everything out on my floor I realized that the original size was huge - there wasn't actually space to do it! Seeing all the pieces in place next to my double bed just demonstrated how unnecessarily big it would be, so I cut 2 rows from the bottom and made it a square 77 inch top.