Rainbow Scrap Challenge: the Other Side

Finished pink, purple, and green quilt.  It's more square than it looks.

Always in my mind, the birth of a baby is a hard and fast break point in my life.  I don't set goals past that point, I don't really plan for life after that point, since I'm never sure how I'll feel or how baby will behave.

"Sleeping" together.  Miss G tucked JoJo in, and then asked me to tuck her in.

PK was born Wednesday after quite a precipitous labor.  In fact, he was born on my bed without anyone, myself included, realizing what had happened.  That's another blog post entirely, maybe for this afternoon or tomorrow.  He's quite splendid, calm, and tiny compared to my others.  We're sleeping plenty, eating, and managed to pee all over Daddy during his first diaper change.  DH had forgotten about changing baby boy diapers!

Before I was induced, I managed a fair bit of sewing.  To be honest, I was very nervous about labor, since Miss G had a scary end to her delivery two years ago and then I had a miscarriage.  I sewed my brains out trying not to worry.  In the end, I finished all the nine patches for my chain blocks, so the box is getting tidier with each sewing session.

One more rose appliqué is hanging on my wall.  I finished it Tuesday evening and was so happy to place it with the others.

PK's placemat is already done, as my sister finished embroidering his name, and I backed it with a fabulous fat quarter in blue and purple, quilted it, and bound it. Tuesday was a busy day between sewing and cleaning!

Finally, my big project of the week, which even saw a few new pieces added Friday, is a new orphan block project.  I had a few black, yellow, grey, and black and white orphan pieces, so I decided to throw them all together.  One was the letter Z, which really puzzled me.  The Assistant, whose name starts with Z, didn't really need a new quilt or pillow so... DH has been pestering me to make a bedsize quilt for Miss G, since he often sleeps with her after she wakes up at night.  His request was to back it with a sheet like a quilt I was working on when the Assistant was born.  That eleven years ago, almost, so I told him I'd try.  As luck would have it, my older sister and mom went to the mall with me, and we found a set of clearance sheets at Dillard's that were very similar.  I bought them, so I had the backing.  Now for that Z and the front!  I decided to pull out my Tonya Ricucci book, Word Play, and build a liberated alphabet in my orphan blocks for the front.  I have 16 letters done and am sewing together the lower rows since everything won't fit on my design wall in pieces.

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

Be sure to check out all the projects as they wrap up this year!