Process Post, Quilting Finished!

ALL DONE!

I LOVE finishing quilting quilts! It's so wonderful!

Unrolled!

quilt front

quilt back

Close-up!

And here is the Queen making it all possible:

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More Quilting Progress! (Process Pledge)

I have been stitching away! I chose the free "raindrops" pantograph pattern (found here) for my scrap quilt.

Loading the quilt is so easy...I LOVE IT!!!

loading the top! The backing is on the roll above it, already loaded.

All ready to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

While quilting, I've been listening to the second book in Marie Bostwick's Cobbled Court Quilts series. These are such great stories. They really make you "feel" like you're there.

What I Did Yesterday / Process Post

Yesterday I spent around the house..ALLL DAYYY..it was GREAT!
On Sunday we were supposed to have a BBQ but my husband was ill. So I has 8.5 pounds of ground beef thawed out! YIKES!
I decided to go ahead and season them & make them into hamburger patties to freeze.

 I made about 35 or 40 patties in all..and I HAD to keep some out for dinner! :)

I listed some homeschool curriculum for sale on the various HS groups. I didn't get to all of it listed, but at least I made a dent in it :)

 I sure do miss homeschooling. I am so reluctant to sell my middle school curriculum  in case we end up homeschooling again. I don't know what the future holds, but as of now Kyle absolutely loves public school...and there aren't any issues with it...so....

I guess since I was having a somewhat lazy day...the animals decided they would too. I walked out of the sewing room and this is what I saw as I went along...

Jacob napping

Patches napping...yes that is her BACK leg up by her head, lol.

Linus napping...caught him mid-yawn :)

and Lissie napping!

 Just seeing them made me tired!

Next I headed into the sewing room to complete the quilt top that I had listed on my Design Wall Monday post. All I had left to do was add the final border. The border fabric is actually the same as the squares in the centers....

 Then I decided to pull this quilt out and FINALLY quilt it. (It's been pinned and hanging in my closet for almost a year now)

 BUT...I couldn't find a thread color for the backing that I was happy with...so off to the side it went...again :)

I pulled out these scraps left over from a doll quilt project I made last year...hmmm...

 what to do with them...

 PINWHEELS! (I love pinwheels)

 I decided to sew them together into a table topper/doll quilt sized piece.

I looked over and Patches was napping (again) on my daybed. I thought it was so cute that she was laying on top of a quilted quilt, just waiting on the binding...up against a quilt top that is awaiting a border and next to a quilt book. :o) Made me smile!

 Here was my thought for the border...

 Ta DA! I love it! It's completely UN-uniformed but I love it. I am using the leftover scraps to piece a scrappy backing :)

And as I looked out my sewing room window last night, I saw this beautiful sunset and just had to go outside and take a picture. I love where I live.

Design Wall Monday!

Monday, May 14th, 2012

for the record...this quilt is on my design wall upside down....

It should look like this (minus the upside down sewing machine and spray bottle):

This is my scrappy strips quilt. The center squares are all the same fabric (it is varigated).

I added the brown border and only have one border left to go...

this is the fabric I am using to make the final border. It is the same as the squares in the center.

see?

I hope to get these borders cut and sewn on today!

Weed Whacker Quilt

I have decided on my next quilting project! It is called a Weed Whacker Quilt. It is made up primarily of 2" strips and 3 1/2" squares. I am making it a scrappy quilt, so there will be no real rhyme or reason to the color scheme. Anything goes!
Here is a picture from www.quiltville.com showing what the finished quilt should look like:
Here is some of the fabrics I have chosen to use in MY Weed Whacker quilt: