WIP Wednesday

WIP Wednesday again!

i hope you're all feeling more productive than i have been!



i haven't made any progress on my Spinning Stars quilt-a-long.

or the two bee blocks that i need to do.

i've been working on some of these cute little fabric bowls, but they kinda take awhile. i hate hand sewing, so i'm doing it in short bursts

and i forgot to take pictures of pincushions, though i've finished a bunch of them!


but i did put together a pattern for a little baby quilt this morning.



the background will be a mixture of solid white and white on white prints. the colours aren't set in stone, they'll all be tone-on-tones, and i figured i'd pull from my stash...

and then i went to the fabric store this afternoon! (i needed buttons, it was a valid trip. really.)

we all know how much i love tone-on-tones, right?


they were on sale, and obviously needed to be added to my stash. right? right.


my biggest WIP at the moment is my tote from Sonja of Artisania's Paperpiecing 101 class last weekend. i am SOOOOOOO close to being done, cross your fingers that i'll get it done by tomorrow's guild meeting!



i kind of want to make a quilt of gnomes in all different sizes, all with stripey legs. just so that i can make more stripey socked gnomes. it's pretty awesome, isn't it? wait 'til you see the rest of the bag!


i'm going to link up with WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced and at The Needle And Thread Network, and let's hope i manage to get something else blogged one of these days, huh?

i have an idea. and i need your help!

i know i don't usually post about quilts until i can at least post a WIP picture, but this time, i'm posting before i even choose the fabrics!


i have an idea for a baby quilt, partially using Sonja's amazing Winter Critter's paperpiecing pattern that was published in the Nov/Dec issue of Quiltmaker, and partially using patchwork letters. i plan on using the full tree and the raccoon, and possibly the two birds at the bottom, but leaving off the higher branch and the squirrel. i want to fill that large space with a quote of some sort. i'm not sure if i'll paperpiece the letters, improv piece them, etc, but i won't do them too wonky, i want them to match stylistically with the raccoon.

this is where you come in. i need to find the perfect quote!

my first thought was to find a quote about curiousity, because raccoons are incredibly curious animals, and curiousity is such an invaluable trait, but i'm now that i've spent some time searching around for quotes, i'm not as tied to that idea.

i'm looking for a quote aimed at a child. i don't want it to have confusing language, or require a lot of explanation from a parent once the child is older. there are a lot of really amazing quotes out there, but i can't imagine explaining the language in them to a 3 year old! i don't want it to be faith-based, and i'd like to be able to credit the quote on the quilt label, so if it's a "real" quote, and not just a phrase stuck on a picture for tumblr purposes, that's preferable! also, there are great quotes out there by people who have questionable stuff connected to them, so i'd like to avoid that. walt disney, for instance. (i was going to link to something there, explaining why so many people don't want their kids exposed to disney, but when i went to google and typed in "disney is", 10 different reasons came up! so i'm guessing you can figure it out if you want to.) i want it to be a life lesson sort of thing, if possible... anything connected to creativity would be awesome, but it's not limited to that.


it might seem like i'm being picky. am i being picky? i just want to find the PERFECT quote!


i've spent ridiculous amounts of time watching the food network/history network and searching pinterest. a RIDICULOUS amount of time. plus, i bet anyone who was following me for crafty purposes is really bored right now, i've pinned more than 200 quotes because i got a bit distracted and started pinning all the quotes that i liked, whether they'd work for this or not!


anyway, here are the ones i've found that i like....

Source: blog.workisnotajob.com via Amy on Pinterest

i adore this quote, but i don't know what the source is. i need to e-mail and ask. i tried googling it and i did find a quote with the same first line, but fairly different ending.

Source: flickr.com via Amy on Pinterest

Source: etsy.com via Amy on Pinterest

Source: konfetafpodarok.com via Amy on Pinterest

just the "follow your dreams. they know the way."

Source: modernparentsmessykids.com via Amy on Pinterest

Source: margaretfeinberg.com via Amy on Pinterest

this quote is actually wrong, the correct quote is "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see" - Thoreau
i kind of like the misquote better!

Source: flickr.com via Amy on Pinterest

this is from a poem by Mary Oliver titled The Summer Day. i'm REALLY liking this one, and it seems to match the Winter Critters better than any of the others....

Source: etsy.com via Amy on Pinterest

Dr Seuss said so many great things!

Source: nawasaka.tumblr.com via Amy on Pinterest

like this one... but this quote would be better suited to a stacked block quilt, or something like Holly's awesome Book Quilt.



speaking of Holly. i mentioned at thursday's VMQG meeting that i was looking for curiousity quotes, and within a day, she'd sent me some! I really like this Albert Einstein one she sent - "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. " i'd seen the first half, but i think it's stronger with both lines.



so! this is where you come in! what do you think? what are your favourite quotes? do you have a favourite that you'd suggest? brainstorm with me!

(but i refuse to draw a web! can you believe that i was once in a college class where they tried to teach us brainstorming webs?!! what, did they think i'd skipped grade 9? it was a 200 level class! blew me away.)


(also, thank you for the get well wishes! i'm still coughing so much that my neurotic cat won't come near me (i miss sofie!), but otherwise, i'm feeling better!)