Finish it friday

I have 3 finishes this week, which actually sounds better than it really is. I did indeed get Becca's cold, (thanks for sharing that, sweetie), and it has knocked me off my feet for the past 4 days. However, while surfing around blogland yesterday, I came upon this post from Bonnie Hunter at Quiltville, giving information about a quilt drive for survivors of hurricane Sandy. I have had 3 quilts sitting on a shelf in the cupboard for the last 2 or 3 years almost finished. Two of them had the binding sewn on, but needed the binding turned and sewn to the other side. The third needed to have the binding completely put on.
The first one is a Bonnie Hunter pattern called Bricks and Stepping Stones.
The second is a half hexagon.
The third is a Kansas Troubles or Delectable Mountains, variation. I'm going to get labels put on them, and then hopefully have time to get them shipped off, if not today, then Monday.  I'm linking up to Amandajean's Finish it up Friday .

Finishes

I finally got around to taking a few pictures of the  quilts I've finished in the past month, although I still haven't got the bindings sewn down. I've decided I'm finishing them off by machine, with my walking foot, decorative thread, and a decorative stitch. So, now, it's just a matter of getting it done, some time in this lifetime. I was hoping to have them done by the end of the year, so that I could use them as charitable donation deductions on my income tax, but I don't think that's going to happen. So, I'll get the rest of my donation quilts done in the new year, and have a much larger amount to donate. I also finished Amalia's quilt, and took some pics of it, as well. And now, I'm off to work on a quilt on the longarm before heading in to work this afternoon.

This is Amalia's quilt. It measured out at 97x97 inches. It's made completely out of batiks, and is absolutely stunning

This is a close up of one of the stars in the quilt. The centre of the star is sewn using a dimensional technique that I had never seen before

I tried to get a side view to see if the quilting would show up more. It is a pantograph called "Plummage" I can't remember the name of the designer at the moment. I used a Rainbows varigated thread

This is that half hexagon quilt I pieced last spring. The backing, which I didn't get a picture of, is large yellow sunflowers, which is also going to be the binding

A scrappy style Delectable Mountains,  in a barn raising setting. There is something about this quilt that I'm not happy with. I told Susan, when I was chatting with her last week, that it was an ugly quilt. 

This is a "Bricks and Stepping stones" quilt from Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville.  It is going to have a scrappy binding. I took a whole pile of leftover binding ends, and sewed them together to get enough to bind this one

Very productive week

I've finished all the 9 patch blocks I need to do 2 twin size disappearing 9 patch quilts. Phew, that was a marathon of a sewing week. Loved ever minute of it. And I got to use up 540 5 inch squares, for a total of 10 yards of fabric, gone off my shelves and out of various drawers and bags. Woohoo!!! I have to finish cutting the nine patch squares, and then I can get them up and start arranging them on the design wall. My goal is to get that done today. I also have almost the entire centre section of that wedding ring quilt ready to sew together. And, also this week, I did get the bricks and stepping stones sewn into a top. Altogether, a very productive week

What to do, what to do?

I'm trying to decided what I'm going to do with the rest of my day. I've already gotten a turkey stuffed, and into the oven. We bought it way before Christmas, before we decided that we were going up to Noel and Laurie in Collingwood. Last night, it called my name and said "cook me tomorrow". The idea was, to get it in, and then have the rest of my day to do with as I pleased. Ah yes, the best laid plans....... Becca came home from school, and had to have a discussion about decorations for the wedding, and I was perfectly happy to oblige. But, it did use up the afternoon. Ah well. I spent all of yesterday working on the wedding ring quilt, and actually into the night, as well. I had to stay up, and go pick her up from school at 1 am in the morning, where she was working on a project that was due today. Somehow, I just can't face working on curved seams again today, although I got 2 more rows done yesterday. So, the idea was to reward myself with something fun and easy today. So, what to do? Do I start something new? I have all kinds of charms from the Northwoods Crossing collection, that I'm wanting to do something with. A disappearing nine patch is what is calling me. But then, I have an almost finished Bricks and Steppingstones from the Quiltville site. There are only a few more row to sew together, and it is done and off my UFO list and onto the waiting to be quilted list. Maybe i can do both. Hmmmmmm. That would be the responsible thing to do, but I'm not sure I'm feeling responsible........ Maybe, an hour on sewing up the Bricks and Stepping stones, and then onto something else. Yep, that sounds good.