DJYota's Crafty Endeavors

In my quilting life, this seemed like a pretty important milestone.  I just completed my first Patchwork of the Cross block!  My husband saw it setting on the table and asked, "So how many more?"  Only 29 to go!   When I told him that, my brain flashed forward to the stitching journey ahead.  Every quilt project captures phases of my life.   I think of the socks I knitted that were so connected to memories of my son's swimming and soccer days, or the hexies I basted during road/camping trips.  This chapter of EPP will definitely be attached to quite a few running competition memories as my kid heads into his high school cross country adventure. I have a metal pencil box that has been functioning as my on-the-go EPP work station. The challenge is in actually finishing an EPP project!  I have been pretty distracted by all the potential projects and have been dabbling with one little design at a time.  The only one I am close to finishing is from the King

Flowers are blooming all over town.  I came across these beautiful poppies last weekend.  Inspiration for a future quilt, perhaps?  But I digress.  On to the crafty endeavor of the Happy Fabric Flower Garden quilt... So, school ended just over a week ago.  I spent last week covering our high school's credit recovery program, so not quite done with work yet.  Since I signed up for a professional development class this week (Monday through Friday, 8-4 each day...what was I thinking?) I decided that I needed to get down to the business of finishing this quilt before summer "officially" starts.  I taped the backing fabric to the table and added the low loft batting I'd chosen.  Once I smoothed the top down for the quilt sandwich, I realized that I didn't really need to tape that layer since it was hugging the batting so nicely.  I just smoothed it all out.  Layering on the table like this (a two part process since the table is only big enough for basting ha