An almost finish Friday

I haven't got to do much sewing this week okay really no sewing this week, so I was going into withdrawals. I had the blocks finished. Just need to press and square the last 14, so I got that done this morning and thought I would see how much of it I could get sewn together. Things went very smoothly and I got the whole thing put together. YEA I even got two of the borders sewn on to it. The other two are cut but will have to wait since work calls. Working again in the morning so maybe can get the other two borders on tomorrow night. Check back later to see it with borders.

Teresa

DWM 11-16=15

This morning I finished the last of the 63 blocks I needed.

After I play around a little with the placement of the blocks, these will start to come down off the design wall. I really cleaned up some 30's scraps with this one. I have a few 2 1/2 inch strips left and the fabric that was too small for that I am cutting into 2 x 3 1/2 inch rectangles for another easy block I have used before. However I am not starting on the block until I finish at least two more projects. It is good to see some empty project boxes.

Got to work today and not sure how much sewing I will get done this week. Wednesday is my off day but I am taking Daddy to Birmingham to see a doctor there for surgery on his chin. This will be the second surgery and there is skin cancer involved this time. I hope they are able to help him, he has lost too much weight because he is having trouble eating.

FYI if you are sewing for Christmas you have less than 40 days, get busy. Laughing because I have done nothing for Christmas yet.

Teresa

Friday Finish

Friday 13th and I have a finish for my Finish Four challenge. I not only added the border to the 30's pinwheel I also made the binding. I already had a wide back in 30's fabric so this stack has moved to That Quilted Place and it will go in to que for quilting. 

I had the binding already made for this trip around the world wall hanging or lap quilt but had not been able to find a back that went with it so today I just decided to go with a white back. So it is pieced and moved out to the quilt studio. So that will count as finish number two. 

Before I even finished the pinwheels quilt I was trying to think of some way to use the scraps. I looked around the internet and found a pattern that put 12 squares together and then add frames to 2 sides. 

Then twist and turn them kind of like a rail fence. 

It makes a 8 inch block. At first I thought I would set them 8 x 10 using 80 blocks. Then I thought that I could set them 6 x 9 with a black 30's print border. I think I will change that to 7 x 9 which will finish 56 x 72 before borders. I have 46 blocks completed so far but it is going faster than I thought. This may be my number 3 finish or I have another quilt top that I have decided to enlarge by adding a border so who knows. 

Keep stitching, 

Teresa 

Finish Four

It is Wednesday morning and I have a little time to sew, and as I was piecing some blocks together I was thinking about some fabric that I got at Donna Nix's fabric sale. There is an old Fons and Porter pattern that I want to do but it required a lot yardage of two fabrics for the alternate block and I finally found two that go great together at Donna's sale. The other block is a scrapy nine patch if I remember correctly. So I am committing myself to finish four projects at least to the next stage before I start this new one. It can be quilting a top that is already pieced or finish piecing one of the many I have started.

The question is which will it be? 

Will it be this one that I am calling Lime Crystals, which is from Bonnie Hunters last book which I have misplaced or lost. I think I can wing the sashing and border by just looking at the picture, but I would really like to find the book. 

Will it be quilting this one. I thought I had a picture of my finished top. 

Will it be this one that I have decided to make larger. I think I have enough blocks made to make it a king size, but I am still hunting a black paisley print for the border. 

Or will it be this one which I think the consensus from my last post is that I should add a border. 

Oh and remember this scrapy trip Alabama quilt I still haven't decided what to do on this one. 

This top still need quilting. 

This little table runner needs borders and quilting. 

This top has been ready to quilt for a long time. 

Oh I have to quit looking back at old pictures, I am finding too many unfinished projects. I have to stop and get back to sewing. I will finish four before starting anything else, I will. 

Teresa

Stickability

Despite all my lists and good intentions I have a major problem sticking with one project until it is finished. The last post was of all or I should say part of my unfinished projects and yet I started another. I have several kits waiting in the wings and this one just kind of called out to me. I wanted to work on something different, something with new fabric. This was one of the strip club kits from Quilters Refuge. The strip club patterns were all made from 2 1/2 inch strips and this kit was pre-cut from 30's reproduction fabric. The pattern is called All Stars.

The original pattern left partial pinwheels hanging on the edge and I really didn't care for that so I figured out a way to add blocks that will finish the pinwheels and make them appear to be floating in the white background.

I have it all put together now and it measures 72 x 84 which is a nice size. I originally thought I would add a border but now I am not sure. I have a red 30's print that I could use, but I need some feedback. Please if you are reading this let me know what you think about a border.

Teresa