My latest Work In Progress (WIP)

We had a lovely evening with my friend Christine and her daughter Caitlyn.  While Miles and Caitlyn made a mess of the house – to include playing hide-and-seek in my credenza from Korea – Christine and I made a little progress on some sewing projects.

Christine is in the market for a new serger, and since I love mine, I convinced her to give mine a whirl.  She made a super cute top for one of Caitlyn’s dolls.  And let me just tell you how selfish a sewer I am.  I don’t make Miles anything.  Haven’t since his baby quilt in 2009.  And Christine here is in the middle of making lots of super cute stuff for her kids AND their dolls.

I spent most of the evening slicing up 4″ cuts of fabric into triangles.  Using the fabric stack I pulled earlier, I started cutting the triangles.  What a process.  It took me a lot longer than I thought to cut these things. A. Lot.

I made stacks of triangles by value order and then arranged them up on my design wall.  I added 4 yellow triangles just to break up the pinks and purples that dominate most of the design.  Keeping in mind the lessons I learned from Kari, I tried to keep some definite contrast between the triangles and less contrast in others.

I stitched them in record time (it seems!). I’ll play with the design for a bit and see where it ends up. I’m envisioning a lot of white space. And a polka dot border.

Linked up at: Freshly Pieced