Octopus Completed and Bound

Last night I watched Doc Martin and Elementary and did the binding on the Octopus quilt. 

Here are the front and back -- with feet!  Those are the dockers I tried convincing him to get three times and he kept saying, I am fine.  Then for his birthday I just bought them for him.  He loves them.  They are his go-to, go-outdoors-in-the-middle-of-the-night, jeans-wearing shoes.

Sometimes you DO know better.

UnReferenced Is Complete!

Last night I remembered I had not sewn the binding for UnReferenced.  So I pulled it out and finished it up! 

So I have now counted it among the finishes for January.  It is Number 4 for 2015!

I have to tell you, no one else was around to help me.  I have asked Frank to put up some holders on the deck so I won't have to do this alone.  (read this in a whiny voice aloooooone!)


I put my camera on the deck, set it on one of the end tables facing out into the yard.  I had to prop it up on the lens cover.  And set the timer for 10 seconds.

You would have laughed to see me hop off the deck, hold up the quilt, try to remember where I had pointed the stupid camera, and stand there wondering when the photo would  snap.

The added bonus was the setting sun in the background behind the house shining through the back of the quilt.  Interesting pattern........I need to design a quilt like that!