January Finish For Connie's Game

I have my first finish for Connie's Game.  Sophie's Twister Quilt is done!

Sophie's Twister Quilt

A special thank you to my husband for holding the quilt for me.  I'm home on a Snow Day from work and it's a little too windy and snowy to go outside for a picture.  Considering all the ups and downs, it's done!!

Ups And Downs

This has been a week of quilting ups and downs.

Up- I was excited to quilt Sophie's quilt.
Down- I didn't get the borders on very well.
Up- I learned how to take a tuck in the border to take care of some of the "extra" fabric.
Down- I was a little frustrated with myself over the borders.  After all, I've been at this a while, I "shouldn't" have things like that happen. (Just goes to show you, they can.)
Up- When I was showing my husband, he reminded me that we are hardest on ourselves, his example was of the bathroom floor he put in last winter.  He can find all of his "mistakes" and I don't even see them.
Down- I had a hard time getting excited again on Wednesday.  I did my 15 minutes, but really didn't feel like doing more.
Up- Thursday I got busy and finished my "tucks" and removed the basting from Sophie's quilt.
Up- I tried a new pantograph called Daisy Duo.

Through the center there is a line of basting to hold the tuck while I quilted my design.  Then you hand stitch the  tuck and remove the basting thread.

Quilting

Up- I'm now ready to get the binding made and sewn on.
Up-  This quilt is well on it's way to being done!!

Success!

Success!  The borders are on!  My sister came over this afternoon to sew.  I finished the borders on Sophie's Twister quilt and Deb finished making all the string blocks she wanted for a quilt top.  Woo Hoo!

Just in time, before the sun was behind the bluff.

Little More Done

I have a little more done on my Sophie quilt.  I now have inner border on two sides of the quilt.  Not sure if I'll get the top and bottom done tonight as it involves measuring and math.  I'm tired at the end of the day and that's when I make mistakes.  So will measure tomorrow morning and cut tomorrow night.  Want a little peek you say?  OK

I can't decide if I want to make some binding or sew an Easy Street block.  I'll let you know tomorrow which I decided to do.