after my machine quilt guild lunch tomorrow, I plan to dig into tons of projects that have been sitting, "breathing" for the last 2 yrs while I spent all my quilting time doing customer work--I get to work on my own stuff for 7 whole weeks! (around holidays with family).

I got too many irons in the fire, again! But in my defense, they are different skills to avoid boredom. I'm doing an Elizabeth Hartman's Awesome Ocean for piecing fun, Snow Ladies for embroidery fun, a DiFord antique wedding quilt for applique fun, a Quilt of Valor for scrap piecing fun & charity, and a baby quilt due back from the LA for a gift. Oh, and I better finish those two Christmas stockings for the grands. But nothing has a deadline, so there is no stress.....just busy, busy, busy.

I am headed to a class with Karen K Stone that is an all day long class!!

I have three more baby quilts ready for the hand sewing part of the binding and 2 more ready to be sandwiched... they are all donation ones. I promised delivery right after Thanksgiving... of the quilts; not the babies! :)

I am about 4 days from finishing a lap quilt made for a friend using his crown royal bags. Hard part was making it a cabin kinda quilt without too much purple, so it would go with their log cabin home.

Striving to finish my 2018 projects before 2019 sneaks up...our modern quilt guild did Jen Kingwell’s Long Time Gone and it took me forever to pick a sashing...all of the blocks have been completed just need to assemble. [ATTACH=CONFIG]604059[/ATTACH]
I also jumped on board with Riley Blake’s quilt along “Meet the Makers” and just have the Alternate blocks to construct...all 25 of them but this wasn’t on my 2018 list of projects so I’m not stressed in getting this one done...(yet).
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I finally finished quilting my version of Hanging gardens this week! I did QAYG on the large blocks then sewed blocks together in strips. Then I sewed the strips together. It’s very large & far from perfect, but it’s for me so I don’t care about the imperfections. Now I have to bind it. I need to get going since it’s plopped on my dining room table & I'm hosting our family dinner next week! I have my machines & all the ‘stuff’ I use for quilting set up in my dining room, so I have to get that cleared out. What a chore!

I am working on a quilt, but will put that aside when I decide what to make for my 4 young nieces. I'm thinking robes this year out of cotton velour. However, I am a sucker for the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt projects - so will probably find time for that also.

I am doing a Bear Paw right now and some appliqué in the evening(just 2squares to go on the appliqué). The Bear Paw is cut out and I will start sewing today.

i am working on 6 quilts for christmas presents four lap quilts and 2 quilt as you go. i have three done and two more
to get on long arm and bind and one quilt as you go to bind.