Another Baby Rails with Attitude

This is Baby Will's quilt (or as AJ calls him, "Willum")! I have the eight rows sewn vertically together -- it's taken two days to do that. This past week I got hit with Bill's cold, so that pretty much took care of 3 days this week -- I hate playing catchup! Anyway, I should be able to get it put together this week. As of today, I'm working on 5 different quilts at one time -- no wonder I can't focus. While working on this one today, I finally finished piecing my Twinklers quilt blocks using leaders and enders and started putting the blocks together leader/ender style while sewing the blocks together on Will's. Then, with 45 minutes left before I had to start dinner, I appliqued one heart for another baby quilt -- this one is for DD's DSIL, who is due the end of June with another girl. AJ and Wendy's first daughter, Marie are just 4 months apart so the cousins are quite close. And Will and "Beth" will hopefully only be 2 months apart.
Anyway -- making a scrappy nine-patch alternating with appliqued hearts for Beth.
And, my ongoing applique project is the Primitive Garden BOM, (although I still haven't finished the first block and #6 will be here soon). And, finally, I have the Pressed Memories quilt off the machine and the binding is on waiting to be sewn down still.

Speaking of the Pressed Memories quilt -- this is the one with all the crosshatching done on the longarm - this quilt marks the point at which I finally feel super comfortable with the longarm. It's been 5 months since I got it. I felt fairly comfortable doing pantographs and some freehand meandering, and even some marked borders, but learning to use the ruler doing the crosshatching was the turning point -- the point at which I really felt my machine was an extension of my arm/hand. I've been itching to load another quilt since I took that one off, but it was the last one I had a backing ready and the top all pressed, so I was forced to get busy piecing baby quilts. I really need to get them out of the way anyway, but I'll be planning the quilting on them soon!

Hope Everyone has a peaceful Memorial Day tomorrow.

Gratitudes:
I think my cold is on it's way out.
I'm thankful we only had a ton of limbs and a few trees down with the latest wind storm this week (at least none of them hit the house).
I did manage to finish weeding the sunny spots before I got sick.
We finally got some rain yesterday -- less than a half inch, but better than nothing.