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I took today off since I had to take my mancandy to the airport at an obscenely early time and wanted to sleep/clean/catch up on crafting the rest of the day.

Needless to say, I didn’t get a whole lot of cleaning done (I did put the dishes away!), but I got a little sleeping and a LOT of crafting done.  I finished off both sets of wonky log cabin blocks I’ve been working in — one with my repro fabrics, and the other with Wonderland and Amy Butler fabrics that I’ve been hoarding.  I have 17 of the repro block and 24 of the Amy Butler/Wonderland blocks.  I’m going to make a queen-sized quilt with the AB/W blocks, but not sure what I’m going to do with the repro blocks.

Here are some of the more fun blocks from the repro log cabin set (8″x8″).

And here are some cool ones from the Amy Butler set …

Eventually I’ll make these into quilts, but until then, they’re just pretty patchwork pieces.

Since I’m feeling sassy, I’m having a February $5 off sale on all my wallets on etsy!  Also — if you follow me on twitter or if you found this sale through my blog, convo me and I’ll give you free shipping on your wallet.

Check it out!

Oversized Clutch Wallet — $35

Funky Patchwork Wallet — $25

Wonderland Patchwork Wallet — $15

Funky Patchwork Wallet — $15

Funky Patchwork Wallet — $15

Large Park Slope Patchwork Wallet — $20

Large Park Slope Frog Closure Wallet — $20

Medium Echino Wallet — $15

Enjoy!!

Finally finally finally finished my wonderland quilt (ie. the first quilt top I made ever).

I had it professionally quilted with a butterfly pattern in yellow thread. The back is pink.

I LOVE this fabric line. It’s sold out pretty much everywhere though.

Anyway, my camera died when I was taking photos, so here’s all I  have:

I got photos professionally taken!  I had been asked to send some photos of my work to The Nest magazine, so I had a local photographer take some photos of my work to send them.

I’ve just been posting quilt tops on my blog so far, but this is the first FULLY completed quilt.  I posted the quilt tops for this one a while back.

I had given the top and the backing/binding to my good friend Adria to get it quilted since my machine wasn’t about to handle it (actually, it broke altogether a week and a half ago).  I met up with her and a bunch of my girlfriends  in Chicago last weekend and she gave me the completed quilt. I’m SOOO excited since I’ve done so many tops and never seen one completed before.

Without further ado…. here it is!

This item is for sale on my etsy shop.

I posted a photo of one of these a while back, but here’s a couple of better photos. I think these do the tops better justice. I made these from 5 charm packs I bought from fatquartershop.com. 

I’m scared to death to quilt these myself! I don’t want to ruin them. I want them quilted with fuschia thread. I have the fuschia dotty fabric and pink dotty fabric for the binding and seafoam green and a dusty pink for the backing fabrics…just need somebody with the skillz to finish them for me!

I want to keep this one for myself. I love the butterfly squares with the butterfly on the side flying away.

this one is cute too, but I might have to part with it.