I attended the Round Bobbin Expo on Saturday. Actually, my guild had a booth that I staffed for an hour or so. I saw the funniest quilt, Haunted by UFOs that I had to share. While I'm definitely not stressed about having well over 125 works in progress it did make me stop for a moment to think about them. I even counted how many UFOs are completed quilt tops. I found 20 quilts that need backs made and another 17 with backs made ready for quilting.I finished the binding on four quilts today! Yeah!!! Mon Sheri Waves, available at the following link, www.robertkaufman.com/assets/pdf/mon_sheri_waves_tutorial_final.pdf,is a project assigned to the Scrap Quilting Club in May. I brought my GO! Cutter to the meeting and anyone that wanted to participate could cut their drunkards path blocks with the die. I did make a modification and added setting triangles all the way around instead of chopping off the sides as instructed in the pattern.
Tumbling Frolics is finally finished. I have a tutorial on cutting fabrics with the GO! Cutter on my blog I uploaded in October 2010. I really like this quilt and don't know why I didn't quilt it sooner. The binding was relatively easy to sew, just cut a stripe fabric on the bias and then sewed in a slight curve fashion along the edges; worked for me!
In 2001 I made a Butterfly Kaleidoscope (scroll down and look on right) stack and whack quilt. I've always been a saver and user of scraps. When I cut the first angle to get 45 degree angle, I cut the scraps into squares. After making the quilt, I pieced this quilt top, putting stars around the kaleidoscope squares. It's been sitting the the quilting pile all these years. Boy am I glad this one is completed.
I made this rail fence quilt top for my brother in February of 2010 but never got it quilted. I thinks he's finally ready for his quilt. LOL
I sewed some more on my line dance t-shirt quilt. I'm working on adding a photo border all the way around. I have two sides made, taking up 6 hours of my sewing time. I sure didn't think it would take so long to make this border. I decided to put it aside to work on bindings instead. As I look at this picture during the upload, there is definitely no space to rest the eyes on this quilt!
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Wow - awesome finishes! Love the GO! for cutting scraps. Your T shirt quilt is lovely, and big. When I told my 5 yr old this weekend that one of his shirts was too small and we'd have to get rid of it, he said "can't you just put it in a quilt?" (P.S. I'm getting myself a paypal account, so I'll be in touch.)
ReplyDeleteAmazing progress! There were some great quilts in that stack.
ReplyDeleteI love the colors in the saves and stars quilts! Just wonderful!
ReplyDeleteOoh, finishes! They always feel so good. I know why you put these away--you got excited about the next beauty of a quilt to make!
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