What is everyone working on this weekend?!!
11-11-2013, 06:43 PM
#64
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That is a beautiful prayer quilt!! You all have been very busy! I'm finishing up hand embroidery on the last block of a BOM. Sashing and borders have already been sewn on. Then need to find the backing, quilt it and make the binding. It will take me a good amount of time to finish it up.
11-11-2013, 11:26 PM
#65
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Well, the weekend is over and I'm just now reading my email. Therefore, I'm late getting in on this thread. but did get some quilting done. I've been working for weeks on a throw-sized quilt for my MIL for Christmas. After my FIL died a couple of years ago, I asked Mom what she was gong to do with his shirts. She said she'd probably give them away, so I asked if I could have them for quilting fabric She gave them to me not knowing I wanted to make a quilt for her! \
When I saw Bonnie K. Hunter's pattern "Swing Your Partner", I know that's what I wanted to do since they were square dancers for years and years! It's based on the Milky Way block.
I've finished all the blocks and have cut the sashing and some of the borders. I'm putting a solid red for the sashing and first border and then a pieced second border.
In order to use up the rest of the shirts and material she gave me, I'm going to in essence make another top for the backing. I will end with 63 9" blocks, in a 7 X 9 grid. I'll need to add a few squares of the red, too, but that's OK since I am using it on the front and for the binding. Then I have to figure out the FMQing!
Hope everyone had a great weekend and thanked a soldier, sailor, or veteran!
Anne P in Seattle
When I saw Bonnie K. Hunter's pattern "Swing Your Partner", I know that's what I wanted to do since they were square dancers for years and years! It's based on the Milky Way block.
I've finished all the blocks and have cut the sashing and some of the borders. I'm putting a solid red for the sashing and first border and then a pieced second border.
In order to use up the rest of the shirts and material she gave me, I'm going to in essence make another top for the backing. I will end with 63 9" blocks, in a 7 X 9 grid. I'll need to add a few squares of the red, too, but that's OK since I am using it on the front and for the binding. Then I have to figure out the FMQing!
Hope everyone had a great weekend and thanked a soldier, sailor, or veteran!
Anne P in Seattle
11-12-2013, 08:32 PM
#68
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Backdrops for Christmas play.Oh why do I do this? I have a king size top loaded in frame to quilt for my better half for Christmas and having to wait on batting,the wait is killing me.Also a new baby quilt top is cut and waiting to be finished.But first the backdrop,costumes ect, must be done first...
11-20-2013, 05:38 PM
#69
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I will be working on my son-in-law's throw quilt which I hope to finish before Christmas. The pattern is "Strawbery Banke" (yep - the spelling's correct); the tic-tac-toes are in burgundy, navy and cardboard-box-tan against a VERY pale, VERY small-scale tone-on-tone grey. He separated from the Marine Corps due to the downsizing, which broke his heart - he would have stayed in the Corps forever. He's doing a fabulous job readjusting to life without the Corps and my hat is off to him. He's a great dad and husband, in addition to a great son-in-law, so it's a real honor to do this for him - 1 tour in Kosovo and 2 tours in Iraq. Well done!
11-30-2013, 10:22 AM
#70
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I'm working on a lodge style lap quilt for the manager of the cabin we rent when we go to the mountains (and where we are till Friday). She's 78 years old and we've become friends in the 30-ish years we've come here. I'm excited to give it to her...now just to get it done!
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