Rainbow Scrap Challenge: Bring on the Crazy

So… You need a JoJo update.  Wednesday night, he smashed his face into the corner of the door frame into the kitchen, yielding a torn frenulum, two holes through his lower lip, a huge cash inside his lip, and some serious bleeding.  When he was tossing in a miserable and restless sleep Wednesday night, I stitched down the binding on my quilt while holding him.

 This fabulous little quilt is done and it's totally mine.  It finished about 60"x68", before washing, and it's the perfect size for me to sleep in the armchair with JoJo.  I quilted it simply in a diagonal through all the white squares in one direction.  I love the texture, the colors, the movement… Yup, I do think I'll be keeping this quilt.

 The backing is the same fish print I used on my grandfather's quilt, and I bound it in a sparkly silver grey fabric that I picked up at a garage sale.

Meanwhile, since it is the week of crazy, I finished the 16 patches for the back of my hand-pieced hexagon quilt.  They're now in rows, and I probably won't get the backing finished until next week.  I'm pretty happy with how it looks, even if I wish a little that I had used less lights.  I used only scraps, so this is where it's going.

I think I'll be hand-quilting from the back, so all the squares will give me a lovely grid to follow.

from the room of Zana's Ninis,
katie z.