It's a Gift!

I'll leave it on my co-worker's desk before she comes in. Hopefully she's in tomorrow to get it! (it's for her daughter).

~QB29

Sewing Tonight

I'm about 30" shy of finishing the binding on M's comfort quilt. I should finish that tomorrow night, as well as clipping any quilting start/stops I haven't taken care of yet and adding a label. Then I'll just need to throw it in the wash and gift it :-). It will be out of my house by Friday (if not Thursday) :-). Below is not a very good pic, but you can see it:


~QB29

It's a Quilt (Well, almost :-))

Here's the comfort quilt I've been working on. I need to finish hand sewing the backing where I joined it since I did a quilt as you go method. It's made using 49 Yellow Brick Road Blocks (well, almost, I messed up cutting a few of the strips, so I had to improvise on 3 or 4 blocks :-). The binding will be the green I showed in this post. My goal for tomorrow @ bedtime is to be hand stitching the binding down :-).

~QB29

Calling it a night on FNSI

Here's what I got done:



10 of my stacked coins blocks for my Gold Coins quilt! The other 10 sets are trimmed and ready to piece. The 5 to the left are seamed together, but I thought I better wait before making any more columns to make sure the fabrics are somewhat evenly/randomly distributed across the top.

I also made chicken salad to use to for a sandwich tray tomorrow. I'll make the sandwiches in the morning. We have our ladies meeting to reveal our 2010 secret sisters and get our 2011 secret sisters. Throughout the year we pray for each other, and if able, give little gifts (at the least, notes) every now and then to let the lady know we're praying for her. Remember this quilt that my aunt quilted for me? Well, it's going to my secret sister :-). I had to attach a label, so I sewed that on tonight too.

Have a great weekend everyone! I'll try to be back on Saturday night after I've been able to log more time sewing. My goal for the weekend is to get Gold Coins to the flimsy stage and finish M's comfort quilt. Gold coins just needs 10 blocks assembled (the yellow & white rectangles are sewn, so just 4 seams/block) and then 15 blocks assembled into 3 columns of 5 and then the 4 columns seamed together. There's no border for this baby, so it will be ready for quilting then!

For M, I need to hand sew together the backing for quarters 3 & 4 and then seam both halves together (I quilted it in 4 parts to attempt a QAYG method.) Then it just needs binding and a label!

~QB29

Green or White?

Binding, that is :-). Here is a sneak peak of the comfort quilt I'm working on.

It's going to finish at about 63" square. I made it out of a YBR pattern, but used 49 blocks w/out a border. I separated it into 4 quarters so that I wouldn't have to wrestle the whole quilt under my machine at one time. I've got the quilting about 3/4 finished and just basted the last 1/4 tonight. Here's 2 quarters put together, along with some binding choices. The green has white polka dots and is used in the quilt. The white is part of the backing (QAYG allowed me to piece the backing easily).

So which is better, green


or white?



I hope to have it delivered by this weekend at the latest.

~QB29

January Goals

Guess I probably ought to put these on here if I hope to finish them.

1. M's comfort quilt - bright pink/green/white, 63" square, using YBR pattern & QAYG for easier quilting - just need to do last bit of quilting, assemble, and bind
2. Judy's monochromatic color challenge - yellow - I think I will make placemats for the spring. I need to pull out my yellow, but may need to shop for some this week. Baby quilt flimsy finished 1/22/2011. Don't know when it will get quilted, but I'm calling it a finish for the purposes of exploring a monochromatic color scheme :-)
3. Judy's UFO challenge - #6 - finish binding Zoo Parade quilt
4. FB PIF - I'm participating in the 2011 PIF on FB. I'd like to get my gifts out by the end of the month. sewing part finished 1/17/2011. Still need to make the mixes & print out the directions.
5. Block Lotto BOM - this month's block is stacked coins and looks super easy. This will be my first month participating. finished 1/17/2011

~QB29. Here's hoping in 2 weeks I'll be able to post finished pics!