My, how time flies when you’re busy! Â I have six or seven weeks to update you on, so go get your cuppa coffee, and let’s go!
After the State Fair (six ribbons — three were blue), I enjoyed going to two get-away quilt retreats, a Fun Friday stitching at a friend’s home, attended an INSPIRING lecture by Edyta Sitar, and did some other non-quilty fun things as well!
QUILTS WITHOUT BORDERS:
That’s what I worked on at the second retreat. Â The following got their borders and are now languishing in the To Be Quilted pile. Â The first one may look familiar as I made a queen-sized quilt like this one. Â I had 12 blocks left over, so I made a lap-sized quilt. Â I knew it needed mitered borders, so this one is ready to quilt. Â Arlene, this one is for you!
Old, old, old UFO…like maybe from 2005. Â The pattern is from the book “Serendipity Quilts” by Sara Nephew. Â This one needed some actual construction in addition to the borders, and I’m thrilled to have the top done.
A queen-sized Christmas Roses quilt I started too long ago to remember! Â Just needed borders.
And a close-up shot:
This was a problem child…a Jelly Roll Race made from Kaffe Fasset fabric, and I just didn’t like it. Â I saw where someone done some slicing and dicing, and added vertical stripes. Â At least I don’t hate it now.
OTHER PROJECTS:
We have some new nieces in the family (I think they are great-great nieces, but that gets too complicated) so nieces, it is. Â I made up some Minkee snuggle blankies. Â They are so quick to make, so maybe now I can match my blanket supply to the booming supply of babies! Â MSQC has a video here.
Some of us spent a day making happy birthday runners. Â I don’t have the pattern handy (and I changed it up quite a bit anyway). Â I’ll add a link when I run across it.
This is a tumbler quilt done in homespun fabrics for Nephew Bill. Â Now THIS one needs borders! Â Then ready to quilt.
AND….LUCKY ME!
I won a stack of hand-dyed fabrics from Colorways by Vicki Welsh! Â You MUST go check out her gorgeous shop here. Â These are all hand-dyed gradients!
So with some trepidation, I cut all this beautiful fabric up and have made these blocks so far:
And, Wait!!! Â There’s More…
On another front, I’m in a 9-Patch Challenge Exchange. Â We have completed our nine months of exchanging blocks, and now it’s time to get designing our quilts…all very secret, of course! Â The good news is I got 162 3″ finished nine-patch blocks…the bad news…I need about 80 more.
I’ve done lots of sewing, but this blog post really shows me how much I have to do, so I better put down my cuppa coffee and get busy!
Linking to Judy Laquidara’s Patchwork Times!
Sue