wip wednesday 2026.5

i've been eyeballs-deep in house design this week, but i took a break one afternoon to put "pinky stinky" edna up on the design wall to get a feel for where we are and to make assemble easy when i get a chance to stitch some.  the available wall space could only fit 4 of 6 rows, the first of which is already assembled but needs a block moved. i was surprised we have enough 16 patch blocks for those rows. there is still a fat stack of 16 patch blocks to be completed, so i didn't think we'd gotten this far along. after seeing everything on the wall, i went over the remaining blocks sets and discovered i have far more than is needed to complete the quilt.

so the good news is d5 only needs to assemble 10 more blocks before i can complete the top. there are an additional 12 sets, which means she can make a small quilt of some sort incorporating them whenever she wants. that resolves our debate about what to name this project. i call it "pinky stinky" edna because i had dozens of problems when starting the quilt (almost all user error, not the pattern). it's pink and it was being stinky: pinky stinky. but d5 likes to call it "tired of pink," a comment i once made after several days of working on nothing but this quilt and i was craving some other colors. she thought that was really funny and a good name for the quilt. but i'm not tired of pink now and i don't think it's a very complimentary name, so i disagree. if she makes her own quilt with the extra blocks, she can call it "tired of pink" and i can call this edna "pinky stinky," which also doesn't necessarily sound complimentary but it's a term of affection used in our household when our girls were little and were being silly or sassy.

i did the handquilting for two more of the interior blocks on "groovy liberty," bringing the total up to 6/42 complete. i'd like to stitch in the sashing, as well, but haven't decided on a color yet. i think something besides white would work better with the creamy/grey grunge fabric, but i haven't decided what yet.

i bought nothing quilt related nor cleaned anything in my sewing room this week, so that sums up my report. i might have some time to get those "samiches" quilted soon, but i'm also hot on the house design front at the moment and might keep focused there.