May Finishes!

This month is looking good for Finishing projects.  So far I've finished the quilting on my Alabama Friend's KING sized quilt, quilted my January Monochromatic Challenge and my version of the American Beauty quilt with the BOM blocks from Guild last year.  YEA! it feels so good to have a few more quilts that I can cross of the list. FINISH is my word of the YEAR. And the month is only half over!

  

At Guild tonight there was a vote for the quilts made from last Year's BOM.  I won second place and got more of the Wild Roses Fabrics like what are in the pink quilt.  I will use them for another Marti Michell pattern that I've been wanting to make. It will be  awhile before I start on that though.  Lots of UFO's waiting still.  I'm getting more confident in using my quilt table. Free- motion on the pink quilt went fairly quickly and I had fun doing the feathers in the borders.

Design Wall Monday, April 25, 2011

Thank heavens it is DONE...at least the quilting is all done.Finished before the end of the Movie "The Ten Commandments". It will be sent to my friend before I can show it at guild. I've had it long enough. I put it on the table back at the end of January. I posted about it HERE. As you can see I'm concentrating on where the needle is going. I learned a lot from doing this. #1- I can't do BIG quilts on my home machine. The throat of my Bernina wouldn't hold all of the quilt with the batting and backing. I had to turn the whole quilt around to finish the last 6 passes. That meant waiting for DH to come home and help me. Basically rotating the poles and re-pinning the top of the quilt to the leader and rolling the other side opposite to make it flat across. #2 If I do a quilt for someone- it becomes more stressful and means WORK! #3 I don't want to WORK! Quilting is suppose to be my stress reliever-- ie:FUN! But it is done. And I am a happy camper! Click HERE to go to the links for Design Wall Monday this week.

Almost caught up

It's been a very busy week welcoming a new granddaughter and trying to stay awake long enough to get my quilting done too. I want to show the close-up of the design I quilted in Abigail's Quilt.

I made Block 4 and 3 of the Civil War Blocks of the Week. The next one is put up on Saturday. Seven Sisters was the block I chose to work on while I was at NaDell's on Friday to help take her to the follow-up appointment. I also got to go and pick up Elizabeth at school. Hand stitching those tiny points while watching Tinkerbell and Shrek with Olivia and Vincent. This is my friend's quilt that she made with my directions via e-mail and telephone. I bought the fabrics for her husband to give her for Christmas a few years ago. This quilt is taking the FULL use of my Table. I am hoping to get it quilted in the next week so I can show it at Guild. It measures 94"x108". It's HUGE! These are the choices of quilting patterns and thread I have given her for it. The designs were FREE from INTELLIGENT QUILTING I still am working on my MONOCHROMATIC Challenge with the YELLOW fabrics. I will have it to show on the Monday Design Wall. It will be at least to the "Flimsy" Stage by then. Tuesday we get a new Color and a new Number of UFO to work on for February. I'll be busy working on some Swaps in the Month of February too. More grandbabies coming in March and April so their quilts will be in the works too.