Almost Three Weeks....

Has it been almost three weeks since my last post? I can hardly believe it! I have been busy working, quilting, and visiting.

At the beginning of the month, our guild had our UFO presentations. I did two orphan blocks, two vintage blocks, and one almost 30 year old unfinished quilt.
There were 5 of us who responded to the challenge. What fun we had sharing! I finished all my contracted items - I finished the last one about 11 pm the night before it was due.

Here is the final one. I call it Attic Treasures 2 because it was the second piece I made from my finds in the family home attic. The Sue was appliqued onto the oval then I appliqued the oval to the background and made the border. It is hand quilted. All the fabric, except for the backing and batting, was found among the family home fabric.

I took my machine to have its annual professional cleaning so I decided to do some hand work. I have always wanted to make a Grandmothers Flower Garden. I used the English paper piecing method. All of the fabric so far is from my stash but I think I will go out and get a white on white fabric for the fence around the flowers. I had an off white that I thought I would use but it just doesn't look right. Anyway, the white is more traditional. Here are the flowers I have done. Each of the hexagons is 1.5 inches. Some of the petals aren't sewn down yet but I just had to get them on my design board to see how it was going.

I also spent three days with my daughter in law while my son was at a training in Alabama. The second day my grandson went to preschool so we had about 5 hours for work. She painted their entry hall and I recovered dining room chairs.

So, now I am off to work this morning...ready for a new week

Thomas II

I finished the binding on this quilt yesterday. I shouldn't have been so confident after doing the binding on the last quilt. This one actually went ok but I ran out of binding about 6 inches shy of finishing...so thankfully, I keep my scraps. It took some piecing but I was able to find enough to finish the binding. (The binding has stripes in it so that made it a little more difficult.) This is the second quilt I made with the Thomas the Train fabric. The block is called Children's Delight in the book I used (I have seen it called other names elsewhere). You probably can't see it in the picture but the quilting has railroad designs...Pinewater Quilter did the quilting...

Yellow brick road

I finally got some Wizard of Oz fabric....now I have to decide on a pattern. Will probably design my own so that the fabric can be featured. Can't wait to start but have to finish the project that I am on now...that is one of my resolutions...finish one project before starting another!!!! The one I am working on now is coming together well. The blocks are almost all made. The cutting directions were for a twin sized but I am going to change it into a full/queen sized. It will be easy, I'll just have to cut and sew 10 more blocks. Since I always get extra fabric, I will have enough I am sure. I hope to have it done this week but since they are coming Thursday to install the Murphy bed and the weather is supposed to be nice this week and I want to work outside, I may not be all done. We bought a rosebush at Lowe's today that we want to put in a flowerbed we started in the backyard....it is a beautiful dark red tea rose that is supposed to have 4.5 - 5 inch blooms.