Leo’s Mane Sew Along

Monday 28 February 2011

Design Wall Monday Week 9

Monday, again, and the last day of February, which means that spring, according to the calendar at least, is only 3 weeks away. I am soooooooooo looking forward to the warmer weather, and the first day that I can take my morning coffee outside and enjoy my swing and the sounds of the birds, and the wind in the leaves, and the breeze on my face. It feels like this winter has lasted forever. And unfortunately in Southern Ontario, it tends to last far into April. But maybe this year it will be an early spring.
 

 

 I've managed to finish, and hang up on the design wall, 2 quilts this past week. Chocolate Swirls is done, and quilted, and waiting for a binding. And my UFO #10 is up to flimsy stage. It was a struggle to get that one done, and had it not been for this challenge, I don't think it would have gotten finished. However, it's not going to get quilted just yet, so it will join the others in that pile of my own quilts waiting for quilting. Since the challenge rules are so flexible, no matter what number she draws tomorrow, it is going to get assigned to the one that has the least left to do on it, or to the hexagon baby one, since I need to get that one done. I'll decide that tomorrow. For sure it will NOT be one that requires a lot of time and thought, since I don't have a lot of either of those, at this point in time. But, since I finished the last of Evelyn's cross stitch quilts yesterday evening, today is going to be a play day. I'm going to see if, in between browsing design walls at Judy's Patchwork Times I can't get caught up with my 100 block challenge squares. I'll post either later today, or tomorrow on my progress. Then tomorrow, it's back to customer quilts again. I think I'm down to 4 left, but one of the is a 100 x 100 kings size, so it will take quite a while to load and finish.

11 comments:

  1. love both quilts!! have a fun day.

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  2. Your Chocolate Swirls is beautiful! I haven't finished my UFO #10 either but.....I did UFO #12 so that has to count for something. Have fun.

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  3. Very pretty quilting! I love the chocolate colored quilt. I am looking to finish a customer quilt this week and a little one of mine :).

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  4. Wow - both quilts look fabulous. Job well done!

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  5. Congratulations on getting your two quilts to the next stage. Both are beautiful, but I really like the brown and blue one.

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  6. The challenge sure helped you finish a quilt. I like the border you put on your curved piecing. I hope you get an early spring too. We are already starting our spring. I love spring if I had my druthers I'd have spring in TX, then in CO then in Idaho then I'd follow it into Canada...

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  7. Being in northern Minnesota, I can totally relate to your countdown to spring. This winter has felt just endless! Beautiful job on both of your quilts, so far. You've made great progress!

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  8. I love our chocolate swirls baby quilt!!

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