Slow Stitching

I have two different design walls today. First up is the Baltimore Christmas quilt.

I've been neglecting this BOM and thought I should try to catch up. This, I believe is probably the block with the most pieces. I'll apologize for such a terrible photo. The color is so off. See those candy canes? I painted the fabric before I cut out the canes and stitched them down. The gingerbread man and the holly leaves are the shrink film I mentioned in a previous post.

The other design wall item is actually on the computer. I've been hand stitching the pieces together for the Faithful Circle quilt and realized that I needed a schematic so I would know how many of what to make. I tried and tried to do this layout in EQ7, but failed so I resorted to my old standby CorelDraw. After doing this layout in CorelDraw I realized that I only had one!! full block to put together. I broke down the blocks by color:
     • blue = 6 sides to stitch on -- 1 block
     • green = 5 sides to stitch on -- 20 blocks
     • yellow = 4 sides to stitch on --16 blocks
     • pink = 3 sides to stitch on -- 76 blocks

This quilt will be totally hand pieced using the English Paper Piecing method and 1930's reproduction fabrics. I'm making headway but it's slow.

For more design wall inspiration, head over to Patchwork Times.