Quilted and ready to go!

I finished quilting my quilt last night. Tonight I made my binding. I think I really like it!


Here's my pile of strips for binding.

And binding ready to go! Woot! My DH is gone fishing for the weekend, so I should be able to attach this tomorrow afternoon-after hiking the dogs and working out. Then an entire afternoon of uninterrupted sewing! I can hardly wait!!!!!

The back road to spring

Here's the back. Like I said, not thrilled with it, but it's growing on me.



I realized I didn't have near enough left over fabric for the back. Then I found....hmmmmmmmm........about TEN yards of off-white muslin. I vaguely remember buying it when it was on sale. I thought it was the perfect solution. It just seems a bit busy for a backing.

No, I haven't caught up!

Work, work, work. When will I ever get caught up??????? Hopefully this weekend.

I pieced the back, not sure if I like it, and I have my sandwich done/pinned. I'm taking "my girl" to the humane society tomorrow then I should have my weekend free. The weather is supposed to be nice-darn! not because I don't like nice weather, but it's hard to stay in and get any sewing done when it's nice-we live in the north and need to take advantage of any sunshine. I'm hoping to finish this quilt, then start on one for charity-I'm doing a charity run (well, it's a half marathon, I'm sure I will mostly walk) in July, and I'd also like to try this same pattern in Christmas fabrics.

In other news, I'm training for a 10k in April-I have "run" (and I use the term loosely) 2.5 miles without stopping/walking three times this week! Yah for me! DH and I are taking a vaca in April and would both like to be a bit lighter by then, so far he's lost 4 lbs (in 5 days!) and I've lost about 3.5 (in 2 weeks-why is it so much easier for them?). I feel wonderful though and I'm at a weight that I haven't been at in about 4 years-yes, I've lost some prior to this, but I could never get under a certain weight, now I'm 3.5 lbs under that-woot! It sure is easier when he's on board too!

I have pictures but I'm not sure where I saved them. Perhaps I can get things uploaded this weekend.

In other, other news, we have a new baby girl due in our family any minute now. I did send a few items on her registry but I also sent these 2 receiving blankets. I can't wait to meet this newest addition!



I love making these blankets, and from everything I've heard and read, you can never have enough!

Quilt Along-Week 3 Done!

Although they are on week 4. I'll catch up!

So, I went from this:

To this: That's Jazzy helping me lay out my strips.

To This!



I should get caught up this weekend. At first I wasn't sure I liked this pattern but I really like it now. I have quite a bit of Christmas fabric from various projects that never got done. I think this is a great pattern to use up some of that fabric. Wouldn't this make a great Christmas quilt? Thanks Randi for the quilt-a-long!

Double sided quilt?

I made this great quilt. Here's the front:


Here's the back:


Here is the finished product:

I think I like the back as much as the front, that's why I called it double sided. It didn't take long to piece together, the front or the back. It spent more time here than it took to put it together. I believe I had it almost done by Christmas but got zero done in January.

The pattern is the Me and My Sister Designs "10 Cents- a 10 inch square friendly quilt". I added a 6" border around it. I purchased the pattern and all the fabric at my local quilt store. I believe the fabric line is from Blank Textiles, Inc. (or that is what the only selvege I have left has on it). This is the fabric I purchased on Black Friday when I refused to wait over 2 hours to get fabric cut at Joanne's. It was 20% off and I had the store clerks attention almost the entire time I was in the store. She helped me pick out fabric and calculate how much I would need. I asked her to cut extra (as is my habit, you never know when you might want to make pillow cases or something), and I ended up with enough to make the entire back.


I think this quilt turned out pretty nice but if I could do it over I would add a 3" inner boarder in the same fabric as the binding, then add the boarder that I did. I don't have a design wall and had to lay it out on the floor. Given the animal traffic around here I couldn't leave it there for long and I didn't realize I had triangles from the same fabric as the border on the outside. That's ok though, I still think it's a pretty great quilt.

On the Road To Spring quilt along

I have joined Randi's "on the road to spring" quilt along over at i have to say.... She has a great site and etsy shop and is kind enough to be doing a quilt along with great instructions.

Here is the fabric I chose:

Here are my 100 rectangles and 100 squares:

There is a fair amount of fabric left over so I think I will be able to piece a great backing. Either that or I may cut more squares and rectangles and make a bigger quilt.

Finished auction quilt

Although it never went to auction. Here's the finished product. I should have taken a picture of it on our couch, because that is where it has been residing.

Here's a picture with the backing. A very "fall" quilt.