Two Finishes

Two quilts I finished in fall of 2014 "Trick or Treat" In time for time for Halloween!

And Scrappy Trips is done!

A Good Start to "Quilting Season"

This post is for October 4, 2014

Finished the little wallhanging "Starflowers" 12 x 15 inches. Pattern is from "English Paper Piecing" book by Vicky Bellino.

Got the Scrappy Trips top done, now to baste and quilt. Decided no borders.

Finished Trick or Treat quilting and binding at long last! Plan to make label and hanging sleeve this week.

Rainy Day June 10, 2014

Cool and rainy, doing the applique on my Tree of Life wallhanging. I prepared the shapes by ironing the seam allowances onto the sticky side of freezer paper, and stitching by  machine with zigzag and invisible thread.

Retreat!!

Had a great time last week at the LLQA retreat at Pilgrim Park near Princeton, Il - a nice facility in a wooded valley near the Illinois River. We sewed, shopped at Quilter's Garden Quilt Shop in town, ate, napped, chatted; but mostly sewed. I made good progress on three of my UFO's.

This isn't a good photo, but its the layout for the top center of my Edyta Sitar Spool quilt. I did get it sewn together. Now to do the border applique. Our local guild did a swap for the "thread" parts of the spools. For three months we each signed up for a different color and made enough of that color for the others on the list. I was fired up to do the applique as soon as I got home, but first I need to get my churn dash and 30's bowtie blocks done for the LLQA swaps for the June 14 meeting. Hope to finish those by tomorrow.

May 17, 2014

Applique Affair block.

I finished my 15th block this week. Nine more to go, maybe the top will be finished this year.

May 12, 2014

Making 5 inch churn dash blocks for LLQA exchange.

A Finish in February

I finished "Hexagon Flowers Doll Quilt" from one of Kathleen Tracey's books. I joined her Yahoo group and have now done two of her quilts for the "small quilt a month" project. This is English paper pieced flowers appliqued onto a background square; and I hand quilted it.