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WIP Wednesday: Distractions

July 17, 2013 by Michelle

I cannot believe it is already Wednesday again. I am in the midst of a busy wedding season (I am a wedding photographer) and spent Thursday-Monday traveling and shooting in the San Juan Islands. It was a beautiful trip but sooo much work. I am glad to be home and hopefully get some down time to work on my projects.

My Baby D chevron quilt got a little bit of love this week. I sewed the HSTs into blocks of 4 and am ready to sew them into rows. In a perfect world, I will have the top done this weekend.

chevron rows

I also got to do some shopping(!!!) while I was on the road this week. I picked up some super cute fabric that I’m planning on using for pouches. I thought I’d make pouches as gifts for people coming to my sister’s bridal shower. It’s in like 2 weeks though, so we’ll see. If not, it will probably make it’s way into my picnic quilt.

fabric

Oh and I received my order of zippers. I’m ready to go!!

zippers

On my shopping excursion, I hit up a thrift store having a great sale on clothes. I was able to buy enough jeans to use for the back of my picnic quilt for $10. I’m nervous it will be a little heavy, but I couldn’t pass up that price. Because of that though, I am considering making it a little smaller. Hopefully I can figure that out this week.

And just for fun, here are a couple pics for my working weekend.

sanjuanferry
On the ferry!

mattmarielfb
The gorgeous couple 🙂

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Filed Under: Work-In-Progress

Comments

  1. Lisa Mortell says

    July 17, 2013 at 6:29 pm

    Do you live in the Seattle area? I work in Seattle live in Lynnwood. It’s alway good to meet other quilter that are younger. Your photo’s look wonerful. Regards, Lisa Mortell

    • mbartholomew says

      July 17, 2013 at 6:52 pm

      Hi Lisa! So nice to meet someone local! We just moved out of the Seattle area and are now east of the mountains (about 2-2.5 hours from the city). I don’t know any quilters in my area so I was hoping to meet some via the blogging universe 🙂 I’m excited to check out your blog!

  2. Karen says

    July 17, 2013 at 10:26 pm

    Cute foxy fabric! Gorgeous couple, great pics! 🙂

    • mbartholomew says

      July 19, 2013 at 3:42 pm

      Thanks Karen, I told myself I wasn’t going to buy any more prints until I used the ones I had… and then I saw those foxes, haha 🙂

  3. snips says

    July 18, 2013 at 12:25 am

    Holy Zippers!! And a lovely stack of fabrics as well! Can’t wait to see the progress on your picnic quilt!

    • mbartholomew says

      July 19, 2013 at 3:44 pm

      haha, I know! I thought I had done a good job of restraining myself when ordering the zippers and then the bag came… oops 🙂

  4. Karen @ Pieces of Contentment says

    July 19, 2013 at 8:03 am

    You are a wedding photographer?!?!? That’s wonderful! Great that you were able to do a little shopping while on the road. You have quite an exciting life.

    • mbartholomew says

      July 19, 2013 at 3:47 pm

      Thanks Karen! I’ve been shooting professionally for about 6 years now, but am hoping to take a little break after this year. It can be pretty stressful 🙂 Quilting is the perfect stress relief!

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