WIP Wednesday

Today, in order to keep things 'fresh,' I worked on three things and just rotated them around.  I just finished four 12 hour shifts so I really didn't do much during the last week.  The first one I'll share is a quilt I am making for my sister.  She came back from a trip to Africa with some gifted fabric and asked me to make it into a quilt.  So, here is what I have so far.

The grey fabric is flannel from a duvet cover.  I asked her to provide the backing and I'd do the rest, and she wanted flannel, so she got me the duvet cover.  Since I have way more than I need I thought I could use it on the front and the back.  I first put this solid border around.

Then I did a lot of chain piecing.

And then I've begun attaching the next border.  I'll reserve judgment, but I'm hoping that this works out well.  I'm worried maybe I should have reversed the order of the borders.

Anyways, whilst I was doing this, I was also working on my two QALs.  I got this week's block finished for the Sew. Happy. Quilt. QAL.

So far that makes eight blocks.

I also started putting together my Sparkles for the Sparkle QAL.

I'll be linking up to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced!