Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Works in Progress - 5.30

Another week, and no projects completed.  I'm SO close on some though.


Nothing new on my baby bear cocoon.  Maybe I'll work on it tonight...


1.  I was hoping to finish putting together my ladder book shelf today, but found I didn't quite have enough hardware.  I was able to get all but one shelf on.  SO CLOSE!!  The wood I used was trash wood (literally, my husband took it out of the trash at work) so it's not the best quality.  I think I might want to distress it, since it already has a used look to it.  What methods of distressing do you like to use?

2. I don't have pictures of my progress on the children's bench.  But I did manage to get two of the three metal pieces sand blasted.  One more to go, and then I'll need to paint/seal them.

3. And I finished one more block for my Retro Flowers Quilt.

I thought I was going to be able to move my Zig Zag Quilt over to the finished column today, BUT, when I went to sew the binding I didn't have a color of thread that I liked for it.


I did get it quilted and the binding sewed on one side.


Again, SO CLOSE!!




12 comments:

  1. Love the zig zag quilt! Your ladder is very nice, I have used reclaimed wood also for projects. Distressing it will be real nice,maybe another coat of paint in another color and then sand some off to see both colors.

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  2. I love your zig zag quilt! I love the mixture of prints in each color. And your quilting job is awesome! Beautiful!

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  3. All very nice projects! Thanks for sharing.

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  4. I bet you're going to have so many finished things by next week! These are all looking great! I love the ladder shelf!

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  5. Busy girl.......so close but hey you are making progress!

    Happy Sewing

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  6. Ahh, so close! lol. It's a really pretty quilt. And I like your ladder shelf! I haven't done any distressing before, but I'd probably just sand it lightly in the spots where it would naturally wear. :)

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  7. The zig zag quilt is gorgeous. I love the prints you chose, the colours and the quilting... beautiful!

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  8. they will all be finished soon. Hopping over from the bloglovin hop. Following you on bloglovin now xo

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  9. I ADORE the zigzag quilt!!! GREAT job!!!

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