Finishing Up the Comfort Quilts

The giveaway will be open through Friday and then I'll randomly pick the winners on Saturday! In the meantime, things have been hopping busy as usual this time of year. We've had junior high basketball games, high school basketball games plus tonight is the annual winter concert. Don't even mention Christmas shopping. Puh-leeze! Who has time for that? I have managed to squeeze in a few frames of hand quilting late, late in the evening though. A person must have priorities.

Quarter Circles in the hoop

And, I am so proud of myself. Both of my comfort quilts are finished!! Well, except for the labels and they are written out, just not sewn on yet! It feels really good to get such an old quilt off of the list, but the other quilt just sort of jumped in the queue. Not exactly sure why that happens sometimes but mostly I try not to fight it too much. The initial quilt that gets made may not be fabulous, but you never know, the making of it can inspire something totally unexpected and wonderful. It has happened!

Ready for labels

In an effort to make the fall colored quilt look a little more fun, I did sew on a tiny bit of applique. The flower actually looked better before the seam allowance was turned under, but at that point I was done with the renovations.*wink

A little addition to make things fun...

The pastelly quilt made out of orphans went together very quickly and turned out fairly well. No applique after all {nothing exciting}, but then, I wasn't trying for exciting, just cuddle worthy. lol  When I washed it though, I totally forgot to use color catchers and some of the red fabric bled over onto the very light green fabric. Aggghhh!!! I always pre-wash my fabrics, so the bleeding really irritated me. I washed it again with color catchers and got some of it to come out, but it's still tinged pink if you know what to look for. And I do.

Two comfort quilts ready to go!

I think I used up about 10-12 pieces of  leftover binding pieces to bind these two quilts. It looks good on these sorts of quilts and makes me feel frugal and efficient. In fact, I didn't have to buy a single extra thing to make or finish these quilts. Everything was out of my quilt room including the thread! Win, win. Now I just need to pick threads one last time and sew the labels on. Time to get back to what I really want to be working on!

The Geese Look Happier Now

Do you ever have one of those days when it just feels like you're gonna jump out of your skin if you can't get in some good quilting time?  Today happened to be one of those days for me.  I have several projects that I could (and should) be working on, but those little half square triangles just looked pretty interesting today....

My geese are flying kinda crazy these days....

I promptly started rearranging the few I had lined up on the design wall.  They didn't look very happy to me at all.  Funny how they seemed to look a little too staid and pompous in those precise little rows and.... what if??

So yeah, don't read anything to deep into my wonkiness play day with the hst's.  It was all in good fun.  The rotary cutter felt real good in my hand and the sewing was a breeze not having to worry about little pointy points on my triangles.*wink  Overall, I think I made a pretty good start on a fun quilt today and managed to make the most of my minuscule quilting time.  (Not to mention completely eliminating any need whatsoever of ironing hundreds of little blocks and quite possibly squaring them up.)