NI - the assembly (Part 1)

Easter weekend, the perfect time to work on assembling the top of my NI.  I set myself up quite nicely in the sewing room at the parentals' and sewed away, and slowly, but surely, the top is starting to emerge.

All set up and ready to sew a strip of blocks : )

A selection of the leftovers.  Not quite sure what I'll make with them yet.

  
The 'refurbished' block 18 - I knew that if I didn't fix up the wonky centre, it would bug me forever!

Trying to decide whether to re-make this one or not.  When I put it next to other blocks, it looks sort of washed out.  When I put it like this, with sashing and cornerstones around it, it looks ok..... still not sure what I'll do about it (if anything).

  
                                                           Yummy!

              
Thanks to quilt-model Dad here.  The central part of the top is almost half assembled : )

Design Wall!!! #2

Here's the wall - made using a few metres of acrylic felt tacked to the picture rail in my room.  It's neat to be able to stand back and see how a project is taking shape : ).  Suddenly I'm finding the motivation to make a few more blocks this week!

The centre block is finally half done - woohoo.  It's taken ages and it has been quite annoying having to be so accurate *sigh* - still I'm pretty happy with the joins all in all so far.

53/98

Over half way done!!!  *Yay*

The end (of the central blocks at least) is in sight!!!  53 blocks down, 45 to go - plus a couple of remakes.  It'll be obvious which ones are on the 'to remake' list when you scroll through the pictures.

Recent news:  the sewing 'nook' has been rearranged and a design wall is in the not-too-distant future : )

1/3 Insane

Ok, so it's been a little longer than I'd anticipated it would be between posts.  NI update: 33 blocks complete :), so that makes it 1/3 complete (excluding sashing & borders of course).

I started to lay some of the blocks out a couple of weeks back, so that I could see how it was taking shape.  As you can see, Gracie has decided that she likes them too...

More Redwork

*Newsflash* block 18 complete - all 229 pieces of fabric.  Pics to come : )

Redwork Insanity

My other project is a red and white version of Nearly Insane.  I'm über-excited about this one - at last I'm delving into my rather extensive red stash!  Sometimes, if I have a stash I'm particularly fond of, it can take a while to find a project worthy of it... and anything with red & white is my current obsession.  I'm also going through a bit of a scandinavian/nordic design phase. 

Here are a couple of my favourites so far: