Finishes #3 and #4

I can't believe how much I was able to finish this week! I am loving my Focus on Four list! These two baby quilts were on my list to finish and they are now taking a bath in the washer.

Finish #3, The Tumbler Quilt was pieced in September 2010 using pieces that were cut with the GO! 6 1/2" Tumbler die. I still have lots of these little gems left to use, some string pieces and some solids. This is definitely going on my list for a new top soon.

A few years ago, Gloria (oh please let my memory be correct!) gave me this little quilt top that I named 4 Patches and Flowers, to finish for a charity quilt. I promptly put it on Mt. ToBeQuilted and there it has layed all this time. (Gloria, call me if this is wrong!!)


Flannel and Minkie make up this fabulously cuddly little quilt that will go to a deserving little girl. The back has a very light lavender Minkie and the whole quilt is just so soft and smooshie.

It feels so good to be marking things off my Focus on Four list. Today I hope to mark off some sew along quilt blocks.....like maybe 4 of them!!! I picked 4 because that's how many I am behind and if I hurry and get them finished, I can put 2 new blocks on my list for this week. Oh yes, there is a method to my madness~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Design Wall Monday

One of my new Focus on Four projects this week is to make the back for my RRCB quilt. I started to pull out leftover fabrics from the deer quilt so I could empty the bin. I had forgotten how big the pieces were. As I'm hanging them up I start to think this will make a great boy quilt. So the fabric will be folded up and marked for that and something else will be used up for the back of RRCB.

The block on the left is my first complete Crab Apple block. This is from Bonnie Hunter's Leader/Ender book. So far I have all the pieces sewn to make the blossoms and am now working on the paper pieced part and the border. It's been alot of fun.

UFO #6 aka Double Delight is loaded, machine is cleaned and oiled, new needle is in and bobbins are wound. I see a finish in my near future.

Finished Top #1

On Sunday, I wrote this post about focusing on four projects for the week. Today I get to mark one of those projects off the list. I finished my Quiltville Roll Roll, Cotton Boll mystery top today! The binding is cut and ready to sew and press. And the backing fabric is right there ready to sew but I'll wait next week to do that. WooHoo.

I have to laugh at myself because I was so stressed over working on this top and nothing else that I gave myself permission to work on something else. I didn't touch any other project.

I'm excited to go back in and sew but we've been invited out to dinner and how can I turn down someone else cooking???

So far, January has been quite productive. That's a good start to the year.