Next up for quilting -- I spy

I found an Ikea duvet with a fun alphabet print to use as a backing -- the quilt features black and white novelty prints that match up with every letter of the alphabet, so that ties in nicely.  I'm still debating how I will quilt this one.  Quite honestly, though, I can plan to do something, but once I get going with the free motion quilting, it just takes off in an unexpected direction -- witness the wip in the foreground, my flying geese quilt.  I thought I'd be very precise and use a lot of straight lines, but the reality has turned out to be the exact opposite.

Works in progress this week . . .

I worked on the following quilts, in some capacity or other, this week.

I think this answers the question -- do you multitask?

Ummm. Yes, I do.

Gravity Quilt along: Cosmic block

Continuing with my scrappy, unplanned, batiks and blenders version of the Jaybird pattern. . .

This block would be one instance where I don't love how the stash fabrics I used worked out in this particular block.  But I'm going with the theory that the quilt as a whole, with all the blocks together, is going to be awesome.  I was really scraping the bottom of the scrap bin a bit with these blocks, and had almost caved to buy some more fabrics for the upcoming blocks, when, happily enough, I came across a box that had a bunch more scraps in addition to a couple of UFOs.  So, the resolution to use only what I have on hand holds.

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Gravity Quilt along -- Block 6: Ultraviolet

Finished my blocks in my scrappy batik version of the Jaybird Gravity quilt.  What had looked like a huge pile of batik fabric scraps covering every shade in the spectrum turned out to be not quite enough in some color families.  It's hard to see, thanks to the busy textures, but in a couple of places I had to piece creatively.  These two blocks fill my magenta spot, and either the pinky-yellow or the orangey-pink.

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Gravity Quilt along Blocks