Steam Punk #2

Hooray!!  I finished Lucci's Steam Punk quilt!!

It coordinates with Enzo's, which I worked on in January. 

We'll be driving down for a visit in a couple of weeks, and I'll be able to see both quilts and both grandsons together!!

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Steampunk #2

Meanwhile, I've started working on Steampunk #2 for Luciano.  It was cut at the same time I did Lorenzo's in January, and will be the same except for flame-orange "hubcaps" and binding instead of aqua. 

I'm finding it to be rather boring to work on, because all the thinking and planning was done with the first one.  So I'm challenging myself to two pieced blocks each day, and then two hubcaps appliqued on each evening.  At that pace I'll have the top done toward the end of March.  No hurry on this one, Lucci won't be into a real bed for more than a year at least.

As Erin says on HGTV's Hometown: 

"JUST GET UP AND DO IT"  

Enzo, Dave and Lucci

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Enzo's Steam Punk

All done, and ready for the birthday boy to move into his big boy bed!  I can hardly believe he's going to be two in a few days!  His mommy and daddy wanted a gray "mod"/60s-ish quilt.  I'm delighted with my interpretation of Jen Kingwell's Steam Punk.  

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Steam Punk

A LONG ROW TO HOE - a particularly difficult or problematic task, situation, or set of circumstances to contend with or confront.

So this is what I'm REALLY working on this month:

This will be Enzo's birthday quilt, for his graduation to a 'big boy bed.' His birthday is February 5.

These are individually template-cut directional pieces. (And we're talking about more than 1400 pieces.)  The blocks involve curved piecing.  Each hubcap is hand appliqued.  I max out at about four or five blocks per day.

My goal is to have the block work completed by this weekend.  Then I can assemble on Monday or Tuesday, get it quilted by the end of the week, and still have a week to get the binding sewn down.

I've been cutting a second set of pieces as I've worked along, which will become Lucci's coordinating quilt later this summer for his birthday.

 I love these little boys!!!!

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