What I was doing when I should have been doing something else

So instead of bringing my parents' quilt home last year and getting right back to work on it so they could have it by Christmas, I made a whole bunch of other stuff instead.

Two jelly roll tops...

Cotton Candy

Cotton Candy Cabins

An experiment with four-patches...I used some leftover Minkee for the sashing on this one. Not recommended unless you use a stabilizer with it!

Hopscotch

A Monkey'n Round flannel quilt for my goddaughter, my Monkey Girl...

There was a matching doll quilt, but I never got a good picture of it because of this...

Gershwin claims it for his own

My friend Nikki had held on to a stack of fat quarters that her mother had bought many years ago...and wanted to make something for her own daughter in Mom's memory. I got three small quilts, one for Nikki's baby (Imani arrived last Monday!) and one each for her two cousins, Maddy and Sawyer.

All wrapped up and ready to go!

These are 2.5" blocks. In retrospect, I should have made them bigger...

Find the Monkey

I love how quilts look when the light comes through them...

(that's Sears Tower in the background)

Another experiment with four-patches. The dark pink pieces are Minkee dot...stabilized this time!

A quilt for Bella, the new arrival upstairs...

Then my old neighbor had twins. These have yet to be quilted, but are on their way soon...

At least I wasn't procrastinating unproductively...