WIP "Wednesday"

I feel like I am working on a bunch of things, I just don't have pictures of most of them.  I snapped a couple of quick pictures with my phone while I was working on the layout for this mini quilt I am working on (excuse the poor quality photos). 

So I adore, like everyone else, the Polaroid quilt blocks that have been popular lately and I wanted to make a mini quilt with them.  I really wanted to include a Polaroid camera as well though.  I searched and searched for a paper piecing pattern for a Polaroid camera and just couldn't find one, so I tried my hand at making one.  This was my very first attempt at creating a paper piecing pattern.  I used this free Quilt Assistant software to help turn an image of camera into the pattern.  I am pretty happy with this as a first attempt.  I may remake it though before it goes into the actual quilt.  We'll see.

WIP Wednesday

I have been busy finishing up this baby quilt for my cousin who is expecting a baby girl this weekend. 
I have had a charm pack of each of Aneela Hoey's first three collections (Sherbert Pips, Little Apples, and A Walk In The Woods) for a while now.  I knew that I wanted to combine all three collections since I think they look so nice together.  I also knew that I wanted a pattern that would leave the charm squares largely intact, but something a little more interesting than just patchwork squares.  So this is what I came up with.

I am really pushing myself on the quilting.  One of the main reasons that I bought my new machine was to improve my quilting, so I better actually work at it.

 Lately I have been totally inspired reading Angela Water's blog and her book.  All three of the quilting designs I am using in this quilt come from her book.