It's finished! With fourth dimension to spare, my quilt for Challenge #1 of Project Quilting's tenth flavor is finished. The challenge subject was "Hope Springs Eternal," as well as hither is my finished quilt. I had to move fast since inspiration exclusively struck less than 48 hours ago. It finished upwards at sixteen x 21 inches.
This forenoon I'll live on linking upwards this piffling complete at:
But earlier I tell y'all nearly the finishing process, let's only dorsum upwards to yesterday morning. Sue as well as I had a breezy but dry out walk at the bottom of our hill. We were at that spot good afterward sunrise, but the heaven would country otherwise. It was real dramatic.
Our walk is nearly 5 miles long amongst a department that climbs 38 floors (according to my Fitbit) to the orbit of a loma where nosotros convey stunning views of the mountains. Yesterday, nosotros could run across Mt. Hood.
Mt. St. Helens looked every bit if it had a spotlight shining on it. We could also run across Mt. Rainier, but it was also dim to photograph.
Also, these cows.
Sue, amongst her precipitous eyes, spotted this quilt block. As nosotros come upwards up the hill, the quilt block is behind us, as well as neither of us has always noticed it before.
Is it surprising that a identify amongst metallic chicken sculptures inwards its yard would also convey a quilt block on its barn?
When I got home, it was fourth dimension to larn to move making a dorsum for my piffling quilt. I establish something perfect inwards my drawer of fatty quarters. Check out those words inwards the center.
There was a piffling fleck of blood-red left from the fatty quarter I cutting for the side borders, as well as thence I sewed them together for the quilt back.
Then I got to move quilting it. I wanted a tight stipple roughly the thread-painted swallow. It would cover a multitude of sins committed inwards the thread painting. I hoped it would exhibit the swallow from the quilt back, as well as it does.
Then I switched to grayness thread. With no fourth dimension to spare, I didn't endeavour to larn real fancy amongst the quilting. The swallows on the stuff were outlined.
And that appears on the dorsum every bit well.
And then, a rather uninspired fleck of quilting inwards the border. Time is of the essence here, as well as thence at that spot wasn't a lot of room for anything real fancy.
And thence it was finished, except for the binding.
Toward the halt of the day, at that spot was fourth dimension left to machine run upwards the binding to the front. I used a combat of leftover binding from ii other projects.
Then, this forenoon I finished her off.
This would non convey been possible without the assist of my dedicated quilt binder cat.
So the exclusively other affair going on roughly the Three Cats Ranch is multiple surprises showing upwards inwards the mail. My friend, Doris, sent me this piffling handmade pouch. Check that out! I tin give the sack holler upwards of all kinds of uses for that. And the piffling gluey authorities notation pad reminded her of me as well as my grocery shopping lists. What a hoot! Thank you, Doris. What a sweetheart y'all are!
And thence inwards yesterday's mail, my friend Sharon Vrooman sent me the 2019 calendar published past times the Schoharie County Quilt Barn Trail. She sent me a calendar a brace of years agone too. These are thence much fun to flip through.
Also, she sent me this panel. I had to await twice because I salivated over this panel when nosotros visited a quilt store inwards Fallbrook, California.
So, what a surprise, Sharon! Thank y'all thence much!
Finally...no surprise here, because I ordered it myself. Someone enticed me on a Facebook post amongst this book. I went similar a shot to Amazon as well as ordered it.
I've been wanting to brand to a greater extent than quilts from my ain photography. The exclusively affair belongings me dorsum are my 4 oldest UFO's, as well as I'm bearing downwards on finished flimsies for all of them. I haven't had whatever fourth dimension to browse through the mass yet. Maybe I'm fifty-fifty a piffling afraid I'll shove everything else off the sewing room tabular array ane time to a greater extent than if I await also closely. You know how desperate times popular off when inspiration strikes.
So...I managed to avoid doing whatever housework all calendar week long. Today, I actually must grab up. Matthew is joining us for dinner tonight. He was going to come upwards create some hap his car. The automobile concern was postponed, but dinner is nonetheless on. I'm non certain if I'll convey fourth dimension for sewing today, but I'm nonetheless create to larn at the quilting for the Lucky Charm quilt. That's next, if I tin give the sack larn caught upwards on housework. Sewing earlier housework tin give the sack exclusively ship the twenty-four lx minutes catamenia for thence long.