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Backing up a bit....
I finally finished these little Paula Prass snowballs Shelly and I have been working on...
I just love all the different colors in here... I need to get the borders figured out today, get it together, Then I will send it back to Shelly and she will quilt it... She's been great about getting her blocks done! I've been jumping all over the place...

I'm trying to get some more of these nearly finished quilt tops done... I did get the borders on the On POINT quilt. I thought at first i wanted something fancier for borders... I do love big simple borders... But after I found the perfect fabric, I thought it did plenty for it... So, it is what it is... Backing is cut, so, that's one more off my list...


I can now add it to the 13 others I have sitting here ready to be quilted...
sigh... I can't keep up on the quilting... I am still plugging along on the Tile quilt... all that micro stippling gives you a stiff neck! I hope to have the quilt finished this week...

But then again, I've started another project... This one for Tonya's Liberated Amish quilt challenge...

And this quilt is overlapping my grandmother's house quilt.... time to get them off the wall!

I am dwiddling down that stack of UFO's! yippeee!



String runner complete!


Oh!
And a pinch and a punch for the First of the month and no returns!

Happy sewing!

ALL WoNkY

Focus...

Last night I took all the other stuff off my wall, and put back up my wonky log cabins...
I was ready to tackle them... Today, plans changed and I had all day to sew! Gotta love that!
So I've spent the day trying to get the top done... I got this far and have taken a break...

I still need to add the outer borders, and finish a few stars on the edges... I added a few subtle ones through out, and used up nearly all the extra little bits of fabric I have in these colors...
You can click the image to see it larger...

It's been fun to finally work this out...
(These were my blocks from the Bee Balm Quilting Bee...)(click here)
and HERE for old posts

Since it was B's idea for me to make a Valentine's Runner for our hallway, she has had full input on this process... She chose the red and purple background, she said it should be longer to go over the edge of the table (6' long), and when I shown it to her last night she said,
It needs hearts... just two.

So I appliqued two hearts in the middle, and this morning she said,
no, it needs more hearts...
So I have a little more applique to do on this before I bind it...

ha! She's become the quilt police on this project...

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I'm still waiting for more thread to finish quilting my tile quilt... it sits and waits...
Tile quilt posts here

And I have stuff ready for my last three ON POINT blocks, but I still haven't gotten around to laying them out... perhaps tonight after I finish all those HEARTS!

;-)

Happy Sewing!

strings and things....

Stephanie at loft creations has a strings challenge... I just had too...

I so don't need another project,
I have 12 in the works. and 7 that need to be quilted...!!!

But while I wait for more thread to arrive for my tile quilt, I practiced some
shadowing machine quilting on this Valentine Strings runner...
this thing is 6' long... the picture is very deceiving!

It's PINK! well, but not without my RED!!! And it was all scraps. How great is that?
Now if I have some old leftover bindings in pinks and reds this will be done lickety split...

Hop over to Stephanie's blog and join in, at least to get rid of some of those scraps I know you have piling up!

I'd like to think I could get a few tops done this week, but it's going to be a busy one...
One small goal is to get these last three ON POINT blocks done
and then I can put that top together...

I have 5 up on my design walls right now...
Two of these are serious piecing... (the crosses and the geese)
that ain't happening this week.

The Kitchen sink quilt is plugging along...

The Orange and Pink Paula Prass blocks, I could maybe get done this week.
perhaps I'll put that on my must do list...
And I do want to get to my wonky log cabins... but not this week.
I also need to get the Chinese New year quilt quilted.... ...

OK. that's it. that's my list for this week...

On Point blocks, Chinese New year. Paula Prass blocks, play with my wonky log cabins and kitchen sink quilt, and lastly, bind the valentines runner...

Good to get focused.

And I am off....Happy sewing!