It's Finished!

I'm so glad the quilt is done!  I took a picture of my grandson with the quilt that is going to his preschool teacher.  She will be retiring at the end of this school year and she has been great.  He was pretty happy to sit with the quilt as it was kind of cold this weekend up in Minnesota.

I haven't been able to blog the past few days as blogger was down.  Losing my info on my dashboard was some sort of glitch that was happening and it seems to be fixed now.  I guess I wasn't the only one having problems.  (Which is nice to know it wasn't ALL user error.)  I feel like I was kind of out of touch for a little while.

Update

Thought I'd let you know how things are going.  I got the binding sewn together last night, pressed it this morning and attached it this evening.  I'm now ready to sit down and do the hand sewing. 

Except it's REALLY hot here.  Yesterday the temperature hit 95 degrees and we broke a record.  I refuse to turn the a/c on this soon, we wait until June 1st, but it's been hot.  The temperature was 75 degrees when I got up this morning at 5:30 am.  So will have to try and sew without the quilt on my lap, if that is possible.

Happy Mother's Day!

 First of all:  Happy Mother's Day!

Hope you are having a great day.

I finished quilting the jigsaw quilt yesterday at A Quilting Place.  I love how it turned out.  Jackie is so nice and patient with you while you fumble around trying to remember what to do next.

To the right is the backing fabric.  Not sure if you can see the quilting, but I used red thread.

Now onto the binding!  You have to say that in a Buzz Lightyear
voice.  (Can you tell we just watched "Toystory 3"?)

Windy



Blowing in the wind.



 

It was a little more windy than I thought it might be.  (Looking out the window, it didn't look too bad.)

All the borders are on and now to find a backing so I can quilt it.



I was flat on my back under the quilt to get this picture.  I love how the sun shines through it, like stain glass.

Three Borders

As promised, here is a picture with three borders done.  It's been fun going through the fabric stash and picking out colors that will work.  Hope to have the fourth border on tomorrow.

Borders

The bubble bath worked.  It is a good thing I decided to quit when I did.  Tonight when I started sewing I'm whipping those pieces through the machine, only to find out that I ran out of bobbin thread.  Last night I wouldn't have been able to handle it.  Tonight I just laughed.  Wound a bobbin, repinned (Is that a word?) and started sewing again.  Haven't we all had times like this?  Today was beautiful, but I didn't have the 2 side borders sewn on yet so I didn't take a picture.  Soon, very soon.

Still On The Borders

I feel like I have the no attention span tonight.  It could be related to the fact that I didn't sleep well last night.  And I'm not even sure why I didn't sleep well.  It has taken me 4 starts to get all of the blocks on the border pinned.  And now I'm afraid to sew, for fear of messing up and having to rip.  So I'm just going to go take a nice bubble bath and see if that will fix what ails me.  Wish me luck.

More On The Borders

I'm still working on the borders of my jigsaw quilt.  Sewed some on the third side and dug through my stash for more fabrics for the last side.  I'm really getting excited to finish this quilt. Hope the weather is nicer tomorrow so I can get a picture.  No picture today as it was dark and overcast.  I'm ready for some sunshine.

Borders

I've been coming along very well with my jigsaw border.  I was going to take a picture outside but the weather is not cooperating.  It's been raining all day.  So I have been cleaning and working on the jigsaw. I have one side done and sewn on.  I have the top all sewn together and am working on the other side.  I need to lay it all out so I know which blocks will intersect with the corner blocks.  BTW, I had another math error, I needed a lot more puzzle pieces than I first thought, about double.  What is it with me and math?  I use to be really good at it.  Maybe that's why I like the string blocks, no math.  (I made about 8 of those today.)

Cutting Again

It was time today to look through my fabrics to find more fabric to make the border puzzle pieces.  I think I need 28 different fabrics, if I figured this correctly.  Found 25 different fabrics so far and have them all cut.  Just need 3 more.

Puzzle Is Done

My puzzle is all put together!  I went out this afternoon looking for indigo or black Kona Cotton to use for the border.  I knew that the Hancock Fabrics in my town didn't have those two colors or I would have bought it Saturday when I had my class.  Since I live near another city, I went in search of my fabric.  First Hancock Fabrics I went to didn't have either color.  Second one I went to didn't have either color.  Third time the charm and I found both indigo and black.  However the indigo didn't have enough yardage so I got the black.  (I was really leaning towards the indigo, but that's OK.) I'm going to border the puzzle in black and then add another row of puzzle pieces around the outside.  At least that's my plan. 

A Little Sewing

Last night I was very  tired and I didn't get much done on row 5, a little, not much, almost nothing, hardly could say that I sewed. That's how little I did.  Tonight I finished the row.  On to the last row, #6!

Still Sewing

I managed to get row 4 done last night even with the distraction of "Dancing With The Stars".  I'm thinking I'd like to have another go at this pattern.  Maybe add a few more brights and/or big prints to it.  It is a fun quilt to do.

Sewing

I was able to do a little sewing today.  I have rows 2 and 3 of my jigsaw quilt sewn together.  It's coming along nicely!

Saturday Class

I took a class this morning at a local Hancock Fabrics store.  We're making a jigsaw puzzle quilt.  I've wanted to do one of these for some time and I thought this was the perfect time.  It gave me the whole day to work on it.  (Some of the pieces are on my sewing machine, that's why there are the white spaces.)

This is Jean who taught the class.  I know, I caught her talking to us about the quilt.  She is a great teacher.  Her blog is here with more pictures of the class she taught last Saturday.  Love the way the quilts turn out.

Another view of my quilt.  I had all the centers sewn together and the first row is done. Deja Vu, right?  Just like the quilt last weekend.  I have some sewing to do!