Various Progress

I worked on several things this week.  I am officially done with  my flimsy for my September OMG.  Yay!  I decided on doing the gold border.  I photographed it on the slate floor and I really like how that looks.  Makes my decision for a binding easy:  I'll do the pebble rather than the rust.  I have backing ready and can sandwich it as soon as I frankenstein some batting.  I have no idea how I want to quilt it.  

The long wavy borders wanted to crawl something terrible while stitching them.  The little blocks were more forgiving.  I had to use lots of pins for those borders.  I'll have to keep that in mind if I try this again.

I planned to do a wavy binding, too.  Squaring this could be a real pain, so a wavy binding might be more forgiving.  Although, with a border, it might look neat to finish it off square.  We'll see what it looks like after it's quilted.

The hexie quilt, which was supposed to be my on-the-go project, has been plodding along as my stay-at-home project.  Definitely not what I intended when I dreamed up doing this years ago!  I think it's about a quarter to a third done.  It's going to be big!  I'm not sure which will be easier - to keep adding on small chunks at a time, or start on another section and try sewing three big sections together later.  (I think I'm going to stick with my bit-at-a-time approach.)

Ironing boards aren't just for ironing - mine is an occasional cutting table, a catch-all for stuff and a make-shift to-do list (why the heck is that card there?  oh, yeah, I need to mail it).  But that stuff needs to be cleared off (especially the small cutting mat and rulers) when I need to iron.  Time to make another caddy.

This was a real quick slap-together project.  I have a well loved and used table topper with stains down one side.  So I ripped out the side bindings, folded it in half, stitched it together as a pocket, added fabric and grippy shelf liner to the top, rebound the sides and ta-dah!  New caddy.  No stains to be seen.  Wide enough to handle my 12" square ruler and small cutting mat.  As a slap-together salvage project, I'm quite pleased.  It will be mostly hidden by the ironing board, so I wasn't looking to put a lot of artistry in it.  Bonus - the table is now covered with a clean table topper (which will hopefully not be so abused).  

What I really need is a padded sofa table, the height of my ironing board, with cabinet doors and a power strip.  Hmm...  In the meantime, this helps!

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