WIP Wednesday: With guest-host Felicity

Hello everyone and welcome to WIP Wednesday. As you may or may not know, Lee is taking the summer off from WIP Wednesday and has enlisted some helpers to guest-blog each week.

I'm Felicity, and I blog at Felicity Quilts. I live in Vancouver, Canada. I'm Mama to G, my 4½ year old daughter, and I've been married to my husband Kevin for going on 12 years. A banker by day, quilter by night, I started quilting about 11 years ago, but discovering the online world of quilt blogs, Flickr and whatnot (heavy on the whatnot) re-ignited my passion. I try to stitch every day - those minutes add up, you know! - it's my "me time" when I can let my cares and worries take a backseat while I just create.

Okay let's get down to business, shall we? I had a great week so I'm only to happy to brag about it share!

Finished...

Nothing - I was resting on my pouch-making laurels. I was totally the Mayor of Pouch Town last week. Seriously: manypouches.

But That's OK Because I Made Great Progress On...

Heather's memory quilt.

That's 5'3" me on the left so you can get an idea of its size - about 80"x60" (ish).

It's all basted and ready for quilting. I will quilt in the ditch in the patchwork and do something interesting (TBD) in the wide borders. Then I plan to appliqué some large flowers in that centre area with fabrics that pick up the colours from the border. The back is pieced, and making it took up the whole morning of my full-day Krista/Poppyprint retreat this past Saturday. (You will see it when I do the Grand Reveal (hopefully soon)).

Charity/Siblings Together quilt.

(Learn more about Siblings Together here.) It started with some squares I cut up with the leftover fabric from Wonder Wheel (which, coincidentally, I won from Lee!). I pieced them all together in a nice orderly square arrangement.

And then I turned my mind to borders and realized that a square quilt isn't all that practical. Whoops! So I did a little surgery on the centre seam and inserted a strip of Kona Amber. Muuuch better!

I have a Layer Cake of Wonderland curing in my stash, so the cornerstones plus the two squares at the ends of the centre strip came from there. I am very pleased with the result (I had no idea the line included some cheater fabric)! Thankfully, I thought of the Layer Cake piece strategy before cutting the border pieces so I could make sure the full LC pieces fit. It's about 60"x70" (ish) so a good lap quilt for a kid.

No Progress On...

Stacked Strips (does taking it out and looking at it count? No? Dang.)

New Wave

Kaleidoscope

Bee quilt (Jewel Squares)

Bee quilt (Circle of Geese)

But I'm happy with what I accomplished - thank you, all day sewing retreat PLUS a bonus Mama Day today when my husband took my daughter to see his Mum and then to the swimming pool.

This Week's Stats

Completed Projects - 0

New Projects - 0 

Currently In Progress - 7

Thanks for letting me keep an eye on WIP Wednesday for you, Lee - it's been fun!