TWO PROJECTS DONE AND ON TO SOMETHING NEW AND FUN

I spent this entire past week finishing both the Marco Polo and the Butterfly quilt tops. They are bagged up and on Wednesday will be going to my charity group for quilting and binding.  A relief for sure.  Now I can get back to Morning Flight and see what other unfinished project lies hidden in my storage drawers.  I have several collage projects that would be so much fun to start.  

Marco Polo quilt top is done.  The lattice made things so easy to join the blocks.  I am pleased at last with the finish on it.  I did select a yellow print for the binding.  It goes to my charity group for quilting and binding on Wednesday.  

The Butterfly quit is also finished and has joined Marco Polo going to the charity group for finishing.  

I have a bin full of William Morris theme fabric and three pattern books.  I think they are calling me for attention.  Time to do something different.  

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MARCO POLO AND BUTTERFLIES

I should be working on my appliqué project this past week, but I have two pieced projects that have pieces laid all over the sewing room and there is no room to really do anything, but get them together and off my to do list.  

The three blocks above are made with this Marco Polo pattern.  I purchased the pattern and fabric as a kit a couple years ago.  Not sure why I did, and wonder what was going on in my mind when I did.  I will admit I can manage to get the blocks together easily and the center comes to gather very well and is flat.  However, this project is definitely not my cup of tea for sure.  I have 20 blocks done, and 25 is the goal and I will be putting a lattice between the blocks.  Sewing those blocks together without one would be a nightmare as far as I am concerned.  I have enough extra fabric from the kit to cut a small outside border and a binding.  I will have it quilted and depending how great it looks in the end it will get a home either for my charity group or give as a gift.  The pattern goes on the free table at the next guild meeting and I am DONE with it.

On a happier note I have 35 butterfly blocks done and the first two rows joined together at the top.

I have joined them with a 1" finished lattice.  Very pleased with them.  Purely a scrap project and it will go to my chairty group for quilting and binding.

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MORNING FLIGHT AND BUTTERFLIES

 I am back to normal life here at home.  I weathered my guild's quilt show last month and all the financial ups and downs of closing the reporting for the guild membership.  My daughter spent 9 days the first week of this month with us and we enjoyed a good deal of family and friends visits and lots of quilting time.  Now I am back to doing something on projects in my sewing room this past week.  

I am back to working on Morning Flight.  I am ready to start the final block on the top row.  After a bit of appliqué thread woes things are going smoothly.  

I have a ways to go on this project for sure.

I can only manage an hour or two of machine appliqué before I reach  
the point of going cross eyed.  I then have to find something simpler to work on for bit.  So I have started this butterfly scrap quilt.  These little guys are fun and go together really quickly.  I'll need 35 of them to have a quilt complete, and every one will be a different fabric for the wings, a bit of a scrap buster.  They will have borders around each one of them in the white dot fabric.

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A WEEK OF SEWING FUN

 I spent this past week with my daughter.  We were able to spend a lot of time with family, a high school graduation event and party with one of my grandsons, and visits with an old childhood friend she went to school with, and her husband's brother as well as doing a good deal of sewing on several projects that she brought with her. 

On a trip to my local quilt store she purchased the coffee theme fabric.  We put together three runners two will be Christmas gifts for friends of hers and they were so cute that she had to have one for herself as well.  A neighbor of mine gifted her with the Kansas Prairie fabric and that will also be one of her friend's gift for Christmas.  Plus my daughter that is new to quilting taught me how to finish binding on the machine.  I have always hand sewn the finishing of my bindings. Just never was able to finish them on the sewing machine that looked good.  Well, you can teach an old dog a new trick.  These binding finishes are just perfect.

This is also a project she brought with her to bind.  It is a birthday present for a friend that is a college librarian, and yes she also has a cat.  The quilting she had done even included a couple of book worms quilted on it.   

And yes one more project sewn together and ready to take home, add borders and off to her quilter. 

My daughter has returned home after a wonderful 8 day visit and it looks like these two think it is about time. They look a bit sad, like they are thinking it's about time Mommy came home.    

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NEW PROJECT IN THE WORKS

Quilt show over and time to have some fun with my daughter and work on a couple of her projects.  

Monique brought this project all finished and ready to take to a childhood friend we are seeing on Monday.  Now have several other projects we plan on working on.    

The last of the 2-1/2 inch strips used for scrap quilt number 6.  All the rest of those scrap strips have been given away to someone else to use them.  

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