Secrets! Revealed!

And other stuff too, I haven’t stopped being busy this week, not even once.

First, as we know, Ali had her baby, who goes by Baby Clay. Or Babby Clay. And because she refused to tell anyone the gender before he was born, I was hoping for a girl so I could pass on the pink/orange/black zigzag quilt I made a while ago. Well.  The good news is that she had him on a Monday, which is also my day off from work, so as soon as I got the good news, I got to work on a baby quilt. I had limited options but navy, green, black and grey seemed good for a boy.

There. Completely made in one day. It’s already been mailed and received.

Next up was my dear friend Libs’ birthday. I’d already made myself a pincushion using a block from knitty.com so I made a second and put a small quilt block on the back and called it good. This one is hers, front and back:

The yarn is mini mochi. It’s nice and soft and very cute. This one is mine, front and back:

Koigu yarn is the bomb. Ditto echino fabric. Delicious. And both were gifts from Libs!

Also, I made throw pillow covers to match my green quilt:

Made with scraps, mostly, a little new (the centre blocks) and the fabrics I’m using for binding (the orange pieces). The backs will be purple batik.

ALLLLLso, I made a couple toys out of an Aranzi Aronzo book, the middle 2 fellows:

Shannon got me thinking about toys and I’m glad I gave that book a second chance. I had to get new poly filler stuffing and I’m not in love with the new brand. I just don’t know where to get decent stuffing around here.

Valentine’s Day snuck up on me, so I hastily made a gift for my Valentine:

If you can’t tell, it’s a mini quilt, about 2′ by 3′,  of an 8 bit picture of him. We’d been very much enjoying 8 bit art by Andy Rash and so I used his formula as the starting point. I mostly used scraps I had laying around here, but also got a couple fat quarters from Walmart (the blue backgrounds and the beige sand, dark brown beard/hair).  I spent a lot of time looking at it and laughing my head off. And yelling at everyone to stop spying on me and my secret presents!

(Also an apology about flopping around and switching blog themes. I hate that,  I get all confused when a blog I frequent suddenly looks different. The one I used for about a day-almost exactly like this one but purple and green-I loved and wanted to stick with but it didn’t have categories or a blog roll so I switched back to this one. Yes, I’m sure there’s an easy way to add those to a theme but I’m too old to start learning tricky stuff like that).