Late last night I finished Mom’s quilt. This is the one I started in the last weekend in January, right before she went into the hospital. I took it up to her this evening and she loves it. She said she’ll sleep under it tonight and then when I take her home tomorrow, it will go on her chair.
Even though it’s not bed sized (51 x 67 before shrinking) I made a matching pillow case. I used a bit of the border fabric to make the label.
Happy Birthday, Momma.
Today, it’s really what’s NOT on my design wall. My wall is empty — I took down Ladder to the Stars because I needed the hangers to take a picture of “Music Lessons” (alternatively know as Ted’s quilt; Music Stars; and the music quilt). I finished it last night and took it out of the dryer a little while ago.
It even has a label.
There is a new tab for my 2010 finishes. I hope this is the first of many UFOs I finish this year.
See what others have on their design wall’s by checking out Judy’s blog.
Another UFO finished in 2009. This is “Race Cars”. In 2008 I taught the 4-Patch Stacked Posies and this was my class sampler. Finished it measures 47 x 59.
I hope everyone is having a safe and Merry Christmas.
Ok, it’s not a quilt, but it is fabric out of my stash! A while back a friend gave me a pillowcase kit and as simple as pillow cases are to make (although I make them harder encasing all seams) I simply had not gotten around to making this up. So tonight after shopping for what seemed like hours (wait, it was hours — not that we bought a whole lot), this was all my brain could handle.
Before we left for shopping, I finished binding the 4-Patch Race Car quilt. I need to put the label on it and wash it, then I’ll get a picture posted.
It’s done all that is left is for me to stitch down the label.
The table runner is finished.
I’m sure you are thinking haven’t I seen this table runner before? What wasn’t finished on it then?
Three things.
1 – I had to decide if I was going to do the raw edge applique.
2 – I found a strip which did not get caught and it needed to be repaired.
3 – It needed a label.
I choose to skip the applique because if I use this on the table, I want dishes to sit flat. That and generally speaking applique is not something I do.
The repair took a bit of thought. I came up with a solution, which although is visible to me, shouldn’t really be visible to anyone else — especially if I’ve got the table set on top of it.
The label I printed a label and then ‘bound’ it with the backing fabric. A bit of sticky fusible to hold it in place while I hand stitched it down.
This project is done!
As I mentioned on Monday, I started making this quilt in the early 90’s as a high school graduation gift. This was before quilting took over my life, so I didn’t really know what I was doing.
Today, it’s finished. It’s not perfect, but it’s done. I think I’ll call it Stars & Stripes.
This morning before work I finished sewing the binding down on Cherry Frolic. I would say that 99% of the time, I machine sew my binding, but always have to go back and catch some that I missed. It’s gotten better, but today I can say I didn’t have to restitch any of it, and I caught all the corners.
I have to give thanks to Judy over at Patchwork Times. She was lamenting her large pile of quilts which needed binding and her readers talked her into machine stitching them. Here’s the link to her binding posts. I followed her hints and the binding on my quilt turned out the best yet.
This past week I made a gift for a secret sister exchange, the Decadent Victorian Jacket and the Kansas Troubles Stash Society binder cover.
Fabric bought includes the binding fabric for the jacket – I wanted long unpieced bias strips, so that was a yard – most of which ended up in the stash, a music themed FQ, and FQs for a gift. Technically, the gift FQs aren’t going into my stash, but I didn’t setup my spreadsheet to track gift purchases separately.
Fabric Added this Week: 2.75 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 100.75 yards
Fabric Used this Week: 5.25 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 27.33 yards
Net Stash: +73.42 yards
The jacket is finished. I used most of a jelly roll and charm pack of Decadent Victorian which I purchased a couple of years ago.
