Spring Table runner

or a wall quilt.

 I put those triangle corners on the back in case I want to hang this.

(22 x 46) 

close up of the quilting, swirl echos done small.

 Bottom Line in bobbin, So Fine in top until it ran out about halfway through- YIKES!  

I don't think there is anyway to estimate how much is left on a partial spool, especially with the finer threads.  It seems anytime I'm sure I'm going to run out and have a back up spool ready. I have enough and don't need the back up.

But when, like yesterday, I looked at the spool and thought 'yah, I'll  have enough....' I don't.  

Luckily, I had a cone of a Connecting Threads Essential Pro and it matched amazingly well.  

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I'm half done with the diagonal lines (3/4 inch apart) on the Small Treasures quilt. It is taking for.e.v.e.r.  I timed myself and it was 3 hours marking and sewing the lines-just straight lines amazing.

I should finish that tomorrow and will post a finish picture.

and while on the subject (sorta) of time.  I timed how long it took me to hand stitch the binding to the Spring runner above.  One solid hour! I sat at the table and didn't watch TV or have a bathroom break or anything.  

I think that's a long time.  

I'm timing stuff because I've had a few requests for custom quilts-made from start to finish.  I'm not sure I want to do this.  So I'm trying to figure out how long it takes and how much I'd have to charge to make it worth it to me.

I have a feeling it will be more $ than most would be willing to pay.

But I want to be able to say,

 "Do you see this runner? It took me 1 hour to sew the binding to the back.

DWMonday

This is on my wall. 

A new project...

How does this stuff happen?

 I do not know.  

I was looking through my 4 inch binder labeled "Quilts I'd LIKE to make".  (if I life to be 402-3)

And I saw a pattern I found here.   

Two days later this is my wall.  Well that blue block top left has been redone all scrappy, it was the first block I pieced thinking I would do a controlled color scheme, but realized I didn't have enough strips in any one fabric to do so. Hence I went scrappy-happy, which might not be a bad name...

This week I want to quilt and finish these two flimsy's:

And the binding  on H Whiskers.  

I finished quilting it yesterday. 

LOVE it!

I took these pictures late last night- will get better ones after binding is done.

And last but not least, I am STILL pulling loops on my Santa rug....finish by January....so close.

His beard gets hooked with 'roving'. That should be interesting.  

Check out what others are working on at Judy's.

Works In Progress

Yesterday was a very busy day.

  It was like I drank a gallon of coffee. 

(I did not).

I loaded and quilted a 2nd donation quilt top; the one with the red binding in the picture.  I did a randomly spaced wavy line all the way across, took it off, reloaded and did it again in the opposite direction. 

I've been wanting to try this and think it looks nice. The quilt on the left is the 1st donation quilt-it was the one I did to see how the new poles and track system on HQ work

(Annie wanted in the picture since Otis keeps hogging the header photo.) 

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I also put the borders on this little spring table runner.  

(22 x 46)

I put the main part together during guild's newbie class, which was all about using pre-cuts.
I used an older April Cornell charm pack I had just sitting around waiting for just such a project.
 I found the yellow (inner border) in the stash but had to buy the outer border.
I have the binding made from the same blue border fabric.

I also made great progress on the OB-Wonder #3

I always am amazed at how a project that hogs the entire design wall shrinks so much as the rows are sewn together.  I have a tremendous desire to move all those un-sew rows on the right closer to the sewn together rows on the left.  It's goofy... and I won't do it.... waste of time... 

but I really want to.

Have you seen the t-shirt that says

yep I get that.

Oh and you might remember my Snow Bound quilt and how I wasn't happy with the quilting.  

Well, I got it out and the quilting is fine. Apparently, it just needed to sit in a dark closet for 6 months.  

I put it up yesterday and just kept looking at it and shaking my head as to why I was so bummed about it originally.

Oh and when I was getting Snow Bound out 

this quilt came out too. 

Remember My Apple Orchard?

 GUESS WHAT???   

The binding isn't sewn down!!!  

I think I must have put this away around vacation time and forgot about it!!! 

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Oh and I gave both the dogs baths!  

They are very sad to be smellin' all nice and clean....

 but that is the price they must pay to live in the house with us people.

Quilt guild tote

So I'm in the 'new bee's class' for the guild.  

It's a fun time once a month on Saturday morning.  I've made it to two of the classes in these last 4 months.  So I'm batting .500-pretty good if I were on a baseball team.

The first class we made our name tag.

Then we made a little Halloween project-I missed this class but did mine at home.

Last month we did PAPER PIECING-in hind sight it was a fun class; while in the class I was stressed out....

gawd I'm bad at paper piecing.

The class last week I was all prepared to go to---meaning it was on the calendar but I really hadn't got my supplies together.  

And then, as it always seems to happens in December-plans changed. 

 I spent the day with husband and Meghan. 

It was a very good day.

I got an email from the New bee's teacher, Thea reminding us to bring our tote bags to the next guild meeting for show n tell. 

So making mine has been on the 'to do list' all week and yesterday afternoon I figured it was now or never.

I'm not sure which is the front and which is the back-I like 'em both.  

The block in the first photo is another Bl-a-day block (woo-hoo).

Today I MUST clean.

have to

no excuses

clean, clean, clean.

I don't like today right now