Super Pink

It's been a long time coming but I have a few new things to show which have been held up by poor lighting and the necessity of secrecy.

The lighting situation hasn't improved (grim weather here in NYC) but the time had come to give this little guy away so I just had to deal. This is my long-ago started Hop Skip Jump Quilt. I actually finished all but a foot of the binding over a year ago, but since it had no recipient, I wasn't motivated to wrap it up. Enter a new baby girl for my good friend V, and I sprung into action.



This is actually the first real quilt I ever started, and it took me over 2 years to finish! Of course, I would do a million things differently if I were to restart it now (the quilting for one - I stitched in the ditch around each of the color blocks), but I do love it and hope it will keep the new babe warm and snuggly. Word is it's going to be hanging above her crib, which I take as a huge compliment.

And speaking of which, City Blocks got installed above the crib of its recipient and I think it looks great!


I'm going to wait for some good natural light to photograph the other two things I have to share (and another baby to be born), but stay tuned.

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Do you ever write a whole blog post? When you haven't written one in over a week? And it takes you like, half an hour? And then you post it and Blogger pukes on you and it all gets lost? Yeah, I hate when that happens.

Anyway, it's been slow going here at One Potato. Long work hours and daylight savings time have meant little time to make projects and even less time to photograph what has been made.

This weekend I finished cutting out the rest of the fabric for my Hop Skip Jump quilt. It's a good thing this quilt is wonky by design because if it wasn't... well it was going to be anyway. There were definitely some errors made as I raced through piles of fabric with my friendly rotary cutter. I trust that it will all be ok and am deluded into thinking the sewing will take way less time than the cutting. It will at least be a thousand times more fun. Oh cutting, how I despise thee.

This week I also got my blue laceweight cashmere from Hipknits. In the ongoing conspiracy being waged against me by the international postal system, the first shipment did not arrive. (Please advise me immediately if you see a UK or US postal worker with a powder blue cashmere shawl anytime soon.) However, the kind people at Hipknits sent a replacement and it came within a week. The color is well represented on the website and it's so pretty!

Finally this weekend I took a field trip to Purl Patchwork with my friend S, who has recently redone her kitchen and plans to adorn her bare wall with a big swath of beautiful fabric stretched over a frame. After coffee and sustenance at Once Upon a Tart, we chose a large repeating print with a bittersweet orange background and bird silhouettes and a butterfly and flowers. I can't find it on the website, but trust me, it's awesome, and will look fantastic on the wall. I may just have to invite myself over for dinner.