De børn er stadig i ovnen

Danish lesson of the day (according to babylon.com): "De børn er stadig i ovnen" means "The bun is still in the oven." That's right, but not for much longer. Less than 2 weeks and Baby Z will make his appearance! Less than a month and he'll meet his favorite Aunt. (Sorry, Ali but it'll be true.) So, what does this mean? I have to get sewing!

It took me about 45 minutes to lay out the squares on my guest bed. If you look between the 2 pictures, there are a few squares in different places, but not too many. I think 4 at most.



Then I spent 2 hours sewing the bottom 3 rows. Well, the rows themselves are not sewn together yet. Just the 7 across in the 3 rows. Included in this 2 hours is switching 2-4 blocks around, doing a quick clean of my machine, a trip to the store to get a seam ripper, and fiddling with Pandora to get more Elvis and Michael Buble music. I don't know where my seam rippers wandered off to. I can remember using them on a non-sewing project, so I probably put them away with my hammer or something.

For Baby Z, Den Lille Kaptajnen

Danish phrase of the day: translation.babylon.com says that "den lille kaptajnen" means "the little captain."

Check out these fabrics (mostly picked out by my sister, but I found the sailboats & lighthouse fabrics):



And look at what 3+ hours of work did!

Ok, so maybe you can't tell, but that's 3.25 hours of work right there. Well, 15 minutes of finding appropriate music since I want to channel the music into the quilt. (I think I ended up listening to a comedy station that probably isn't too child-friendly, but this will be the first of many secrets between Z and Auntie Shell Bell! Besides, that's only because my Elvis Pandora station wasn't playing Elvis songs!)

Anyhoo - the remaining 3 hours of work was for ironing, reironing, and cutting. I cut a total of 70 8.5" squares (7 squares in 10 different fabrics if you're a little slow on counting the picture). For most of these fabrics (all but the startfish on the far left), I had to line up each and every square to make sure it lined up well and will look good when sewn together.

Phew. The worst part (ironing) is over! Next I'll lay them out in a somewhat-random order and start sewing.