WIP Wednesday: Guest-hosted by Laura of Quokka Quilts
WIP Wednesday comes to you today from the most remote city on earth - Perth, Western Australia, where we are closer to Indonesia than we are to Sydney and the only land-based animal between us and Africa is the quokka. Hi, I'm Laura and I blog over at Quokka Quilts.
Now I know you want to rush to the linky party, but just so you don't spend all day wondering what on earth a quokka (pronounced kwokka) is, it's a marsupial found only in Western Australia, ispossibly linguistically related to a wookie, and it looks like a kangaroo got friendly with a rat and... well, now you have an idea. You can kinda see it in my old blog button. Add a long ratty tail and that's it. (I made up the wookie bit but the rest is true).
These creatures below are not quokkas. These are highly trained quiltdogs. Also known as Melody and Scarlett.
They take their work very seriously as you can see. (The tutorial/pattern for that bag is on my blog but be warned, it's NOT a normal pattern). When I'm not being disrupted by the Quiltdogs, I sew on a Bernina 820 and a HandiQuilter Sweet 16. I love extreme free-motion quilting, appliqué, making bags, and all things modern quilt related. I am President of the Perth Modern Quilt Guild and I run Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday (which Lee inspired) with MR from QuiltMatters.
Works in Progress
On the design wall
I've been slightly obsessed with the Quick Curve Ruler lately, so this is on the design wall in pieces. I've fallen in love with Kaufman printed quilter's linen, which is the grey background. The other bits in there are some Simply Color, Kate Spain, Tula Pink and Birch organics, which is a fairly good indication of my fabric loves.
On the quilting table I have two dinosaur pillows in progress for an old school-mate's children who drew the dinosaurs themselves. This pillow is now finished, the other (in the inverse colour scheme) is just waiting for me to finish the quilting before being turned into a pillow .
I also have a quick little charm quilt (Sunnyside by Kate Spain) pinned and ready to be quilted. I've been a bit overwhelmed by green recently so looking forward to quilting something warmer!
I've also got a monster-sized Mondrian-inspired quilt which I am bashing away at bit by bit using templates and the S16.
I cannot wait until this one is finished!
Thanks to Lee for having me here! I'm looking forward to seeing what you link up!
And of course, don't forget to link up! Here are the linky rules:
1. Link up any blog post from the past week that features an unfinished work-in-progress (WIP).
2. Somewhere in your post, you must link back here to my blog.
3. Comment on at least a few of the other WIP Wednesday links—commenting on the two or three links directly before yours works well to make sure everyone gets comments!