It’s been a busy few days. Saturday I made an appointment to go to Ritzy Quilting Company with Ruby, my SIL. The shop is owned by a friend and we were looking at her website when Ruby spotted some fabric that she thought would work well with s floral she got from an estate a few weeks ago. I needed a green to go with my lily fabric for a 2nd quilt from the fabric, and while I was there I picked up some additional fabrics to go with it for a 3rd quilt.
I used the 2nd green from the left in my Chain Link quilt and will bind it with this fabric as well. I have plans for 2 more of these quilts. They go together quickly, but I found it hard to ‘square the quilt’ when it was quilted.
While this quilt was being quilted, I made binding.
One of these days I’m going to learn that I plan to get more done that I have time for. I’m going to try to get the Auction String IV bound today, but the Orange Lily quilts will have to wait until later. After I get back from the Quilt Guild meeting tonight, I have to go into cleaning mode as I’m hosting Bunco next Monday. After Bunco, I have the President’s Challenge to get done by the following week for my other guild. At that point, I have a sweater sleeve to knit so I can get my sister’s sweater finished. Hopefully that won’t take more than a week or 2 so I can get back to quilting. I have 2 more UFOs to finish by December 4th, and I’d like to get one more quilt made from the Lily Fabric. I think I still have 6 1/2 yards left.
So back to Athena.
It is quilted using Glide in Buttercup. The quilting motif is “Sports”. I enlarged the E2E design to 20″ tall. There is less than 2 bobbins of thread in this 57 x 71 quilt. I started the quilt on 1/26/22 and finished it 10/1/23. The quilt pattern is Athena from GE Designs Stripology 2, but I switched up the colors a bit. Instead of a 2 color quilt, I made mine 3. I had purple strips and squares, neutral strips and yellow squares.
