Two Early Quilt Finishes

I finished the challenge quilt today, well I have to bind it tomorrow.  And I looked at the calendar and found out the Guild Meeting is NEXT WEEK!  So you will have to wait for one more whole week.

I also finished Flower Girl, the baby quilt for my nail salon couple.  I just did a simple meander, but  in a wild yellow green color that exactly matches the solid greens I added in.  I am happy.  It is a really cute girly quilt.  They will be surprised and elated!

I think it is the first time I have ever been EARLY for anything --- quilt wise.  I am usually early for life stuff.

I plan on going to the park and seeing if I can do a photo shoot with a couple of these quilts as I finish them.

So I will claim the Flower Girl top, backing and binding on the stash report next week.   This quilt was done with only pink fabrics and scraps from my shelves......YES!  I used lots of small pieces and the leftover stripes from a previous project.  I really had to think about those stripes, I have a very specific project in mind for my stripes.  A Kaffe Fassett quilt I fell in love with several years ago.

I started saving them, and saving them, and saving them.  Now I just save them.............sigh.

So  there will come a time soon when I will feel the need to create more tops and that will be among them!

I also want to sit down and parcel out who will be getting what quilt so I will know what I need to concentrate on to get Christmas presents taken care of.

Yes, quilt presents for all!  

Flower Girl is a Top!

I worked all day long on the top while I was waiting for Paula to swing by.  She wanted to see the Red Snappers I use to load my quilts on the long arm.

The Red Snappers take a couple of times to get 100% comfortable with, but I love the ability to make changes without taking out a million pins.  And more so, not getting stuck by the pins and bleeding all over the quilts. 

Although my grandmother would say that if you bled on something you were making for someone, they were going to fall in love with it.  And who doesn't love my quilts?  LOL.

And the plus is that it takes less than a quarter of the time to load a quilt.  Paula says it can take her over an hour to set up.  It takes me 15 minutes, maybe 20 or 25 if I have set up the first section off kilter. I really don't do more than a cursory trim on my tops and backings.  Unless I am doing a straight line, then I spend a bit more time getting things straight.

Back to the Flower Girl piece.  I wanted to tie the same color squares together so I added a center.  I thought about adding little squares in the sashing between the blocks, but decided that it would not achieve the desired effect of pulling the four squares together.

It measures 47 x 47.  And I am debating on a 2 inch border all around, or not.  So far, not.

I really is not anything fancy, but I know these people will just love this quilt.  They are excited about the first baby, their business is doing well.  They are legal immigrants from Viet Nam and working toward their citizenship and future in the right way.

New Little Girl Baby Quilt

The couple who owns the shop that does my toenails are having a baby!  They found out it will be a   girl and are pretty excited.  I thought I would make a baby quilt for them.

For the last 3 weeks I have been looking and looking and looking for the perfect quilt.  I had decided on three possibles.  Then I narrowed it to THE one.

Then I lost it and can't find it on the internet anywhere.  So I chose another.

And cut out enough to make 16 blocks.

Then I got called away to do some CAAWS business.

Did you see the explosion yesterday at a plant here in Louisiana?  Frank was at the plant directly next to the exploded one.  He said the explosion rocked the ground.  Luckily he didn't have crews doing the work that exploded.  But since they shut down all the roads in and out, he had to go on a lot of winding roads to get home.........and we know what that means!

He made himself car sick......So he was not in great shape when he got home.  But we had dinner with Paula and Glen and he was able to decompress.

So sad, they lost three men in the explosion.