Keeping busy

I've been busy over the last four days!

I'm working on a few projects at the same time.  The Baby Girl Replacement is all pieced together with borders. I need to sandwich it then it'll be ready for quilting.  I'm kind of stumped there though. I haven't decided a quilting design.  An all over stitch would be the easiest, but I keep seeing circles in those pin wheels. I can't decide!

And what do I do when I get stuck? Of course I switch gears to distract my mind from over thinking.  So I continued string piecing for the upcoming Wanna Bee "Honeycomb" class this Thursday.

I am so in love with this process!!
Just chain piecing to my heart's content. Almost no thinking or analyzing, no planning what's next, no measuring or calculating.
I love the scrappiness!! It's so tempting to sew those colorful strips together!

However, I am looking forward to making these Honeycombs. The pattern suggests light colored cream fabrics for the centers and background.  That wasn't thrilling me too much.  Instead I envisioned a light soft blue for the background.
I didn't have enough light soft blues in my stash. And that meant a trip to the quilt shop. It's an hour's drive from my house. Thankfully, one of my PTQ guildmates wanted to go on a road trip with me. Having company makes the trip shorter.

Main Street Fabrics in Ackerman, MS did not disappoint!!

I got 1/4 yard cuts is several light blues.
And now this stack of fabrics is pre-washed and ready for cutting!

I also couldn't resist some clearance fabrics to add to my stash! I have no idea what I'll do with them yet but I couldn't leave them.

I've also worked on the PTQ Medallion Challenge. The final border required rectangles. I drafted the rectangles to make a zigzag and thought the assembly was going to require partial seams. But aside from the beginning block needing to be a partial seam, a braid assembly technique worked out perfectly for the rest of the strip.

I still have to do the calculations for the sashing and corners.  I plan to have it together and ready to show at the PTQ meeting on Saturday!

And apparently, I craved some crochet action.  I saw a new-to-me stitch and had to try my hand at it.  

Bavarian stitch looks complicated. But it's a two row repeat and becomes quite addicting.

I had picked up two skeins of Caron Cakes self-striping yarn that was being clearance at Michael's.  I'll see how big of an afghan that will make. I may have to add solids, but I'll wait to see.

I'm loving the texture.

And, I spoke too soon! 

I said the Stash Tools were the only rulers that had the glow feature.

I noticed it on the Omnigrid ruler too.  I was amused with my reaction to myself, "well, shut my mouth. This one glows too."  

Hahahaha, does anyone I know really use that saying? Where did I pick it up!?!