Well Hello!

 Hello. It's been a while and I'm not sure anyone is still checking to see what's going on here in Gigi's Room.  After I finished 2 grandchildren quilts and made a couple of blocks for our church group my sewing room was pretty much a "no sewing" room.

I finally moved all of the things that I was giving away out of my room and on to new homes.. That freed up some space in the closet and quite a few bins and boxes. I never got around to rearranging my room or even getting it in any optimal working order. Now and again I got things straightened up so it looked presentable;  that usually resulted in things that needed to be sorted out from shoving the mess in the closet.

Life got in the way. Jack was in the hospital in November. It should have been a two or three day stay but end up being ten days and then almost 3 weeks in rehab to get him moving again after 10 days either in bed or a chair. He came home just when omicron was surging in early December. After that things quieted down and we stayed home for the most part. We saw some of our family at Christmas; anyone who was out and about stayed away from us, even though they were fully vaccinated. We saw our grandson and his family who were here from Washington state and another grandson and his family. Then in January we had a a new great grand daughter and in April a new great grandson.

So... now I have 2 more baby quilts to make.  I ordered fabric online after a trip to the local quilt shop was unsuccessful.

The squares in this panel are 6 1/2 inches and they ae nearly perfectly square so I will have no problems using them. I plan to cut out the squares and add a brighter fabric and some pieced strips between the squares. No definite plans yet.

I picked this fabric because the baby girls family members are cat people. I may not use it for the quilt I am going to make now . The  print is small and busy, maybe you can see the dime I placed on the right below a yellow heart. I love this print but I thought it would be a larger scale. 

This print is for the new grandson. It is a nice scale for both of the options I have in mind. The dime shows up here a little better on the right side next to the stop sign.

The dark areas on both the prints are my shadow. LOL I am still now much of a photographer.

I am looking forward to making these 2 quilts even though my room has not been rearranged to he way I had hoped. I have to remind myself that when I started quilting I didn't even have a sewing room or even a designated space. Also,

I did not have a design wall, I used the floor or I spread a sheet on my bed and laid out my blocks and then covered them with tissue paper to keep everything in place and rolled the whole thing up when we went to bed.