the super scrappy quilt!

ugh, the past few weeks were super über crazy!  just as peter and i were getting over our respective illnesses, little p fell sick...with the stomach flu.  lemme tell ya, there's nothing more fun than cleaning up toddler vomit!  she had a few days of feeling less than perfect but quickly got back on the mend and for now, she's good good good.  thank goodness.  momma's happy when baby is happy and healthy!   in the midst of all the germs and chaos, i managed to get a little quilting done.  yay!  seen above is my latest quilt, which i have lovingly nicknamed "the super scrappy".  *smile*   it's a simple one-patch with fabrics mostly pulled from my scrap box, with some new fabrics thrown in to make the mix make sense (to me, anyway!) and it's straight line quilted with parallel lines one inch apart.  for now it's living on our (new) couch.  it's nothing fancy, quiltwise and probably doesn't even "count" as a quilt to seasoned quilters but it makes me happy to look at it and to use it.  and in the end, that's all that really matters, right?      

a creative week

   ..in spite of it all.  all being that everyone in our household has been at least a little sick, if not a lot sick, the past couple of weeks.  i've had a chest cold (?) with a hacking cough so vigorous and spasmodic that it has nearly given me upper abs of steel.  so un-fun.   still, I managed to drag my bones out of bed or off the couch long enough to lay out and sew a crib sized square triangle quilt i started sometime last year.  i have enough to make about 3 quilts, actually.  i made a quilt back for it last night and hope to baste it before the week is out if all goes well and i'm feeling up to it.   on Sunday i rallied long enough to go to this month's meeting of the Chicago Modern Quilt Guild, where we did a mini project with zippers (see little quilted pouch, above).  it's not my best work but it was fun to make.     i also forced myself to go to my fabric silkscreening class on Monday, where I was able to pick up the fabric i printed in last week's class, which was printed using a contact paper stencil and a little quilt inspired motif i came up with myself.  i also stayed long enough to burn an image on my screen, which i will be able to print with come next week.   what did you accomplish creatively this week?    

sketching with india ink

in the fabric silkscreening class i am taking at lillstreet, we are supposed to be coming up with designs to burn on our screens.  i'm playing around with india ink and vellum and seeing what comes out.  doodles, really.