Breakfast Stitching After a Week Away

So not much to show for a couple of weeks, but here's what I have.

A picture of the row I'm working on.

I forgot to take pictures of a complete row on the other side of the quilt.  So here you are.  Not the greatest photos, but you get what you get.

And an overall shot of part of the quilt.  I wish you could see this in real life; it's so much prettier than indoor shots on my kitchen floor.

That's it.  We were up in Maine last week.  We like to stay in Ogunquit, which is southern coastal Maine.  Went all over the place, up to Kennebunk, across to Boothbay, over to Dover, NH, etc. etc.  Kennebunk is a charming little town and so much nicer than the crazy Kennebunkport.  We did get to Portland, the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, a bunch of lighthouses, Alewives Fabrics in Nobleboro, and so on.  I came home with lots of fat quarters, which I'm going to fussy cut (I need my head examined) for a POTC quilt when I finish Whirligig.  I'm such an optimist.  grin.

Lots of hexies

6 new blocks for Valse Brillante.

And more joined blocks.

Nothing happening on the knitting front.  Sock Madness 11 starts on Wed, so I'm resting my knitting wrists and hands.

More Valse Brillante blocks

A few more that I made since Thursday.  I'm in no hurry here; the best part is picking out the fabrics to see what goes with what.  Sometimes they don't quite work, but It doesn't much matter.  These pieces are about 5.5" across so I'm going to need a lot of them, and if one doesn't work one place, it might do OK somewhere else.  At any rate, here are the first 5 in no particular order.

I hand-baste the pieces.  I did try glue basting once, but it was a colossal pain to take the papers out, and I like to reuse them.  It's not much more work, and the papers will just pop out.  The centers have their papers out already.  Nothing else since I don't know what I'm going to join with what.

I'm using a combination of batiks and regular quilting fabrics. 

See tomorrow's post on how I make these little guys.