National Quilting Day

Has come and gone..what did I do that day? Lots of things, but no quilting.

As a result I am celebrating a bit later this year and in a different way.

I am making my own National Quilting Day by setting aside some time to sew each day. Twenty four one hour sessions will add up to a complete day and will help me celebrate for many days instead of just one. Maybe it is not in the exact spirit of a "day". But it works for me and allows me to justify stitching each afternoon for an hour (not that I really need to justify my stitching time). While some folks may nap, I am spending an hour stitching on bindings.

Since I am seriously behind on that aspect of quilting, this seems to be a win for me.

Here are some current bindings needing to be finished.

Yep, there are five quilts - all queen sized or larger.

Now you can understand why my idea is a good one!

Quilt weekend!

Quilting with about 60 of my closest quilty friends. Having a great weekend. Thanks Mary for saving my life at home!

Totebag, patriotic quilt with rows finally sewn together, 36 quilt blocks finally finished, and the instructions for a string project that many are doing today, but one that will have to wait for me.

Some of the projects done thus far this weekend.

A great way to begin a new month!

Super Bowl Projects

Having signed up for the "Superbowl Craft A Thon sponsored locally by Barbara Chojnacki, of "Six Gables Designs", I knew I had to do something! I finally finished the borders on the quilt shown above. Yes, it is black and white.

My small quilt group, The GQ's, had swapped black and white fabrics some time ago. With the addition of a few fat quarters and a pattern found on line as inspiration, I was on my way. Of course, I had to modify the pattern a bit. What resulted is shown above! I call it simply, "Back and White".

New Quilts

Here are some quilts that have been recently finished.  They will be available in my Etsy shop soon or at Maxwell's Made in America.  You can check them out at those sites in February.

 

Sawtooth Star

 

Butterfly Mystery Quilt

 

 

9 Patch

 

Snail's Trail

Just received the new quilt rack the other day.  It make it sooo easy to take pictures now.  Four more UFO projects finally completed!

Couldn't resist taking a picture of Easy Street on the new rack.  Now I can't decide if I really want to put on those borders or leave it as it is.  I do know that purple will be the binding however I do end up finishing this quilt.

Easy Street # 1 Completed

It has been fun working on Easy Street. The first version is now complete. Thank you, Bonnie for providing the directions and a month's worth of enjoyable sewing.