And as quickly as the blocks went together, so went the quilt top.

Of course I had to include an art shot!

For the quilting, I'm not following the free motion plan that was laid out originally. I've done all of the straight up and down lines, and I'll be launching into the diagonals as soon as I get home tonight. I saw a great tip from Carolyn on one of Carrie's pictures to use painter's tape to keep things straight. I picked some up at my local Wal Mart and will be applying it liberally to the quilt in an effort to sew a semi-straight line. Let's be honest, folks, my lines wander all over the place. I like to call it "quilting character". I did manage to find a darning foot to fit my sewing machine over the weekend ($11 on eBay! SCORE!), so I'll be trying that out once I finish this thing. Possibly on a matching pillow for the quilt.

My sewing setup these days is looking like this:

Note the toddler chair at the end of the table. I have to scrub the entire table every night before I set up the sewing machine, because that kid eats like a rabid kangaroo. The table is a little high for sewing to be totally comfortable. I'm missing my sewing table like crazy, with all of the drawers and extra space to cut and press seams, but this is doable for the next while. If I do anything larger than this quilt, though, I'll be pinning it goether in the parking lot because we have no free space in the apartment. Do you think the apartment complex would think me crazy if I used the entry to their rental offices to pin out my quilt?