It's Going to be Gorgeous ... At Some Point....

Isn't it amazing how we can fail to see things that are right in front of us -- and then a little boy who's not even paying attention, just walking through the room, will ask why one of the polish bottles is wrong?

Looking at the picture now, I can see that FOUR of the bottles are wrong. I added sashing to them. I pressed them. Teenage Daughter laid them out in the order she wanted, and she didn't notice it either.

I can't tell you how much I don't want to take this quilt top apart to fix them. It's got to be done. Later. When I'm feeling healthier and less mad at myself.

The worst part? I messed up those bottles while I was still healthy.

This post is linked to Patchwork Times.

Sixty-Three Bottles of Polish!

I was so excited to get my nail polish blocks sashed and assembled into a top so that I could show them off to you this morning. And see for myself what this quilt is going to look like, since I haven't laid them all out together yet. 

Bright and early, before we had to leave for our weekly classes and errands, I was sewing on sashing. And this is as far as I got because just as we finished our errands, I started to think I might be coming down with something. 

For most of the weekend, I was keeping track of four fevers, including my own. It didn't seem like a good idea to let my fingers anywhere near a fast moving needle. I think I'm more concerned about the quilt than myself, but whatever logic keeps us both safe works for me.

As a reminder, here's what I had last week. I've added another seventeen bottles, most of them not red or pink, because my daughter thinks there's too much red already and it is supposed to be  for her.

Looks like there's just enough of the light grey background fabric to make this work. How perfect is that? 

This post is linked to Patchwork Times. 

Still Not Enough Nail Polish Bottles

When I first started quilting, nine blocks for a little wall quilt seemed like a lot. I never ever added more blocks, or made the pieces smaller. Since then, I've obviously lost my mind. 

The original pattern for this quilt calls for one block. The one I'm following calls for six blocks, made from smaller pieces. So far, I've got forty-six and now I'm aiming for sixty-three. I'm not sure I'd stop there, but by the time I add sashing, it'll be about as big as I can quilt on my Janome.

That's the only thing stopping me  from going even bigger with this one.

This post is linked to Patchwork Times.

Because my girl can never have enough nail polish....

I thought this was going to be a long term project, but once I started cutting prints for the bottles, I kept finding good ones. Without even trying, I had the 48 bottles I needed for my original plan...and there was still fabric I hadn't sorted through.

So the quilt is going to be bigger than originally planned.

This post is linked to Patchwork Times and Needle and Thread Thursday.

Something New

Last August, I stumbled across the nail polish quilt pattern  from Fat Quarter Shop and knew that I was going to have to make one for my daughter. She's as passionate about her nail polish as I am about my yarn and fabric. You can see her creations on her blog, A Girl and Her Chicken Named Betty. One of my favorites is still the Nancy Drew Mani she did when I made my Nancy Drew quilt. 

She needs a nail polish quilt, but the one bottle version isn't going to do it. So I'm using the scaled down version from Bee in My Bonnet.

And making the bottles all the same shape isn't  going to do it either. Real nail polish comes in all sorts of fun colors and shapes, which is going to make it much easier to find polish-worthy fabrics in my scrap bags.

I've been tracing images with my hot iron transfer pencil and I was furious when I saw what I'd done with the lady and her powder puff. That was a lot of tracing -- why couldn't I see the problem with the letters before I wasted a chunk of fabric and my hard work? I would've lopped them off. Or maybe redone just the letters and ironed it on in two pieces.  They say you can get more than one impression, but I haven't tried it with the penciled images.

This post is linked to Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times and to A Quilting Reader's Garden.