So...How Many Quilts Did YOU Finish?

Whew!  I hosted an In-Service Training on Heartworm Protocol for several key people at CAAWS on Monday.  It included lunch. Doing the training was not really a big deal, the big deal was spending the weekend cleaning up, de-cluttering, putting away, vacuuming, dusting and mopping every thing in the house getting ready!

I also had to be at the Allergist with Frank at 8:30 AM that morning.  I had finally talked him into going to get a scratch panel so we can see about getting his congestion under control  He feels that is part of what is keeping him from sleeping.

And I had a Modern Quilt meeting that night.  Talk about traffic......I  left home at 5:15 PM; early enough to get to LSU in good time for the 6 PM meeting.  I was 10 minutes late!

The Modern Guild puts out a block each month and guilds are challenged to do something with them.  Our guild decided it would issue a challenge to use at least 6 of the blocks in a quilt.  Three people finished, one completely finished and two made it to the top stage.

Good thing we didn't vote, I would not be able to decide on one.  They were all amazing!

I showed the 100 Meter Swim and they LOVED the ladies swimming on the backing! I brought three vintage sheets to Kelly and she traded me a solid red fat quarter for them.



Today, I finished the quilting on the Patriotic Raffle quilt.  After I took the picture, I looked at it.  It was serendipity that the flag was in the window!  I ordered a replacement flag two weeks ago.  The previous flag had been partially submerged in flood water.




I finished the binding on two quilts.



First - Batik Reflections



And second - Cows!

Hmmmm........for some reason I am only making long skinny quilts at the moment.






And today is only Tuesday!

What a gorgeous sunset, huh?

Patriotic Quilt

So I finished the Patriotic Quilt.

Carol, did you get to see the Smithsonian Channel things?  Tonight I am watching Sacred Sites in Ireland.  Can you imagine what people who lived 5000 years ago thought when they saw a comet?  Someone could certainly take advantage of people by playing on their fears.

Anyway.

The Patriotic Quilt.

Well, I stepped back and saw a pretty cool quilt.  And two pretty good mistakes!  Of course.

You may not quickly see them.  I didn't.  And I will admit, I corrected one, but not the other.

The yellow star shows the misplacement of the little squares.  The block is turned one turn wrong.  The green arrow shows the actual block unit segment that is turned wrong within the block.  I will leave it to the winner of the quilt to find the thing I did not correct!  Most likely no one will ever notice and it saved me a TON of ripping and replacing!

Speaking of ripping.

I tested the idea of three different threads for quilting.














 Chose one and did a complete row of a panto design across the top of the quilt.

Hated the color blue on the quilt.

Ripped it all out!

How do you determine the size of your batting?  I am pretty primitive.  No measuring for me.  I just lay it down and whack it off!

McGee's fabrics from Molly finally arrived from Oregon.  He was quite excited.  He feels he has made a connection.

In the fabric group there are sharks, floating cities, flowers, sheep and giraffes among the lines and patterns.

He is excited to see what a wonderful group of fabrics Molly sent.  I think it was actually Buddy who picked McGee though.