Another "lazy" productive day

Started this morning with finishing the alphabet quilt's quilting. Here it is...



Then I went on to put the borders on the fall leaf quilt. Putting off basting it I got started putting my 2009 Round Robin exchange quilt top together. I just need another border on it and the top will be done.



Now I've got the 29th birthday quilt ready to baste and quilt. We'll see how much of that I get done this evening. But first dinner...

Day of quilting

Day one of quilting weekend is over. I got quite a bit accomplished. Last night I got the log cabin quilt bordered and basted. This morning I got to work and here is the top completely quilted. It is a log cabin that I did an overall stipple on. This may have been the first quilt I ever stippled. I don't remember another one.



After that was finished I got started on my alphabet quilt. I pieced the back together and then got it basted and half way through the quilting of it before I decided that was all I could handle in a day. I am writing in each strip, whether or not you can see it... "a is for aliens..." etc... I am through one column (A-M) and have the other to do (N-Z) tomorrow.



After finishing for the night Lucy may or may not have swallowed a pill that was on the floor so I am now on puppy watch. So far she is waking up whenever I call her (though looking at me with increasing annoyance every time I do) so hopefully there will be no emergency trip to the vet tonight.

One down...

Another productive day under my belt...

I finished quilting three quilts! And one is completely done and ready to go to its new owner, who is thankfully still young enough to not notice the belated arrival of her baby quilt. Hopefully parents will be jazzed enough with the lovely handmade gift that they will also overlook the tardiness.

Here is a closeup of the quilting... I used a combination of swirlies and flowers and multi-stitch zig-zag.



And here is the finished product. Satin binding and all...



I also got this little one quilted and binding sewn on. I have a fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on how you look at it) tendency to make WAY too much binding for quilts, so I got both quilts today out of binding from other projects.



And another ready for the binding to be hand sewn on. That multi-stitch zig-zag sure comes in handy often. One of these days I am going to learn to set the machine up for it without consulting the book...



However, despite two quilts awaiting my fantastic handwork, I decided to procrastinate by adding the border around all of my blocks from one of our exchanges. On the last fabric depot excursion I found this fabric that works with all of the assortment blocks that have either brown, white, cream, tan, or teal around the outside. So those are ready to put together. But that will require a day where my brain can more successfully do math.

Keeping Myself Accountable

As the world didn't end today, I had some extra time to get some things accomplished.

So far this weekend (with the great help of my friends Jack and Hallie... here I am sure they are conspiring against me...)



I got three quilt tops finished, sandwiched, and ready for quilting.

The first was this caterpillar quilt for a friend's little girl.



It needed a face, so I spent some time remembering how to embroider. I came up with this...



Then I got the leftover triangles from the celtic knot quilt I am working on trimmed and put this together.



As you can see, Jack approves... or maybe he is just making sure there are no puckers in the batting, I am not sure. Both of my "helpers" are extremely fond of batting. Who knew?



Finally, I got borders on this one and got it ready for quilting.