Last night I finished outlining the letters, re-outlined Piglet in a darker pink and put on the first border. I’m aiming for 62″ x 80″, so two more borders to go.

After I got the first border on I stopped and read for a bit. Then before I headed to bed I thought I’d see if I could get the next border on. The sides are stitched and the top and bottom are pinned, so I might get the top done tonight — especially if it rains.  We have plans to go and see Frozen at Theater in the Park — if it stops raining.

Eeyore’s left back foot is now attached to the background. I think I have enough black thread to stitch down the back right foot and I still have plenty of the gold thread to go around the bass.  I think that’s the order of the stitching…I keep changing my mind.

sewing the pieces to the background.  I carefully moved everything over, then promptly pulled pieces off.  It’s the only way I can figure out how to get the pieces layered appropriately. I started with Piglet’s right arm (that weird rectangle under the face) then the right leg. Next up was the body and left leg. That’s when I realized the face had to go underneath the body, so I ripped out a few stitches.

Wait I take that back. I attempted to stitch down the bass, but I was getting puckering and stretching, so that’s when I did the work on Piglet.

Finally I ripped out the stitching on the bass, put some fusible/washable tear away on the back and added the mini quick bias for the purfling stitching it down with a wide zig-zag and added the gold satin stitch to outline the face of the the bass.  The funky square cutout will be overlayed with one of Eeyore’s feet.

The bass now looks like one we have in our garage – no neck!

No additional progress has been made on Eeyore since last night, but I’ve started the quilting on the project that I would like to have finished by the 1st.  If I wasn’t going to the retreat, I think I might make it.  I’ve got half the sashing quilted and figured out a way to quilt the sashing in the other direction which doesn’t require a lot of starts and stops. Who knows, maybe I’ll take it with me and work on it if there is enough room.

As for the picture…I can’t believe how well the thread blends. I thought for sure I would be able to see it on the back.  The arrow is pointing to some of the stitching…it’s tough to see except in a close up. Click on the picture below to see that I really have been quilting.

It’s time to tape my “master” pattern back together — however I seem to be missing a page….

Fortunately I still have the traced double bass and it appears to match up with the main piece of Eeyore’s head — which tells me I had the page in March and it could still be kicking around. If not, I think I can make this work between the print out and the tracings.

Well, shoot.  I thought I just had Eeyore’s eyes & mane and the end pin to cut out before I could start the assembling, but now I have to make a decision regarding his mouth.

I bought fabric for both “Baby Eeyore” the blue/purple on the left which has a pink mouth and the “older” Eeyore  which is two shades of gray.  Looking at the color printout which is of “Baby Eeyore” I cut the mouth from the pink. Maybe I’ll make a gray mouth and see which I like best.

I have a very good friend. She ripped the quilting out of this quilt for me – after she told me in October that if I was going to need it ripped out to stop quilting on it. I kept going on the quilting in October because I thought it wouldn’t be too bad.  I was wrong. It was.

Now I’ve been told I to finish Eeyore before I work on this quilt.  I’m not sure how that’s going to work.  I really would like to have this one done by Sunday when the pattern is published (this is a second colorway).  Eeyore doesn’t need to be done until a week from Friday and I’m spending Friday afternoon/evening and all day/evening Saturday at a quilt retreat.  Maybe if I get all the pieces to Eeyore cut out this evening I can sneak this one in.

Piglet came down when I took the fingerboard down to replace it.  I simply don’t have him back up. Eeyore’s feet have been embellished, I’ve cut out the bow and there is an embellished ear.

I’m not able to take Friday off and I’m working on Monday, so this really isn’t a long weekend – I’ll get that next week when I take off a noon to go to a local retreat.

So what do I plan on working on this weekend?  These three quilts.  The red, white and black needs a binding — I have a bit of leeway – I don’t think it needs delivered until the 6th, but I may get the call earlier. I’ll work on it tonight after dinner since it’s the easiest/quickest to do.

That mass of brown and batting? That’s a quilt that I quilted a while back (October 2013) that I didn’t like the quilting on. I was encouraged to just bind it and call it done, but I can’t do it. But the good news, is I’ve had a flash of inspiration and know how I’ll quilt it when I get the original quilting ripped out. Fortunately it is a relatively small quilt (60 x 71).  My deadline is June 1st.

Then there is Eeyore/Piglet. I need to get this done – as in quilted, bound, labeled & washed – by the 6th.

So, the weekend is binding, ripping, quilting and applique — and going to the Lee’s Summit Symphony Showcase Sunday afternoon. I wonder what I’ll have done by Monday?