Done!

The quilt is done and is going to be gifted this afternoon.  Picture coming......😊

Binding

My binding is all cut and sewn together.  Now to attach it.....

Binding

I found some binding fabric for the quilt I just finished quilting.  I'm so excited.  Hope to get it cut out tonight and sewn on Saturday.  Or maybe it will all be done on Saturday.  But a picture soon.

Quiting!

I finished quilting the top I got pinned on Tuesday.  Now to see if I have fabric to use for the binding.  I may have to make a trip to the fabric store. I hope to have a picture this weekend of the finished quilt.

I have loved this winter break, I feel like I am making progress on projects.  I also finished the other 3 blocks on my sample quilt.  All four are done!

Sewing

I spent the day sewing with friends.  I was able to pin a quilt for quilting and to get one more section of my Christmas trip around the world done.

The weather was a little warmer yesterday, all the way up to 19 degrees according to my car.  But it's to drop again, after all, it is Winter.

All Done

I'm all done with bagging up my little nine patch squares.  Those last two bags took a while as I wanted even more variety and cut more strips into squares.  But if feels good to have them all ready.

To continue with my ramblings of yesterday on what inspires projects, other bloggers do.  I did this 100 patch quilt from a free tutorial from "Wedding Dress Blue"  She has some other projects I want to do.

Jo Krammer at Jo's Country Junction has been making quilts from one of Bonnie's books and she plans on making all of the quilts in that one book.  Amazing.  Plus, she has a block of the month challenge going on.  You take a BOM that you haven't finished and join in on the fun.  To help you get those UFOs done!  I'm been thinking about this one, as I have a couple of BOM that I'd love to finish.

My local quilt shop does a monthly challenge of making a quilt top every month. You can take it to the finish line, by quilting it, but if you work, just getting the top done is an accomplishment.  This past year the patterns have been from Villa Rosa Designs.  I love these quilts, as they make great gifts.

So I'm off to play in my sewing room today.  Hope your day is sew fun!

Happy New Year's Day!

Happy New Year's Day!

We had a quiet New Year's Eve.  Just the way it needed to be with all the cold weather we're having.

I cut squares and cut squares yesterday and bagged them into 10 sets of 9 patches into a bag. (90 little squares in a bag.)  I still have 3 more bags to go.  I need almost 300 nine patches for this quilt and I have over half of them done.  It might even be closer to 2/3s done.  But it will be nice to have my leader and ender project ready to go any time I sit down to sew.

I've been thinking about ways that I decide on projects.  One year I worked on only my Christmas fabric.  Made up kits (yes I still have a couple more to do) and cut fabric into sizes needed in the Scrap User's System plus 5 inch squares as I love Nickel Quilts too.

Another year I joined in with Country Threads UFO project.  You wrote down 12 UFOs and each month Country Threads would draw a number and that was the project you needed to work on that month.  I haven't been as successful with this method since that first time.  I tried this last year with American Patchwork and Quilting UFO Challenge, but never got anything completed.  They are doing it again this year, so it might be something you could think about.

So this year is just work on whatever and blog about it.  Maybe that will take me to the finish line with some of my projects.  I'm also going to work on any projects or kits that are in my sewing room.  (I have more projects, kits and fabric stashed in the basement.)  I figure it's one way to clean my sewing room. 

I have also considered working on one kind of quilt a month.  For example: one month is string blocks, another month is baby quilts using fabric from that bin, or scrap quilts such as Sarah at "Confessions of a Fabric Addict"is doing.

Let me know what you are planning this coming year.