WIP Wednesday: A little of this and a little of that....

I'm just loving these Lily's Square blocks.

Loving them.

They are really quite quick to whip out and I've been trying to find a little time here and a little time there to plug along with them.  They are so colorful and bright that I have just left them hanging on my little art work clothes line in the loft.

This weekend over four sessions of General Conference for my church, I listened while I sewed up 5 blocks which added four more rows of hexies to my little quilt.  I do blocks that are 4 hexies by 5 hexies and then sew them in a panel five blocks long.

She's about the size of a bathmat now.

Quilts that took the backburner this week:

SINGLE GIRL:

I'm still four blocks away from finishing my Single Girl top.  I'm shooting for that to happen Friday. 

POSTCARDS FROM GRANNY:

I picked up four quarter yard fabric pieces to finish a few more blocks and then I think it will be ready to sew together for a completed top.  Depending on how big that ends up being I'm not sure if I'll wait to quilt it this summer when I have access to a long arm or if Bernie can handle it.

Today I'm linking up with:

the mini design wall

The other day when I was putting together the first of these blocks I realized I needed a design wall to make laying them out easier.  Space comes at a premium around here and my particular side of our office area really has very little wall space.  So I conjured up this idea for a mini design wall that I could store easily on my shelf  and I think it turned out great.

My sewing desk is an old computer desk with a roll out table, originally for the computer keyboard, that I usually place my cutting mat on.  My new little design wall fits perfectly on that little roll out table so I can lay things out and then bring it right to my sewing machine to start piecing it together.

At some point I still might make a larger one to put against the back of the other bookshelf but we'll see...

So now there are two!  I'm really loving these blocks especially with all the bright scraps.  Its sort of tempting to want to make this into a large quilt.  I just love all these bright colors together.

In other happy news, I knocked out two more single girl blocks last night which means I'm four blocks from finishing the quilt top.  I had lost some steam but now we're nearly to push through and finish it up.

Today I'm linking up with: