Design Wall Monday

What a fun, full week I've had! 

My plan was to quilt and quilt I did.

Tuesday was a good day to channel my friend Julie and get some basting done.

I set up my basting tables and basted 4 quilts,

2 baby quilts, 1 twin and 1 queen.

I had one already basted and on the machine with the quilting started.

When Ernie is away hunting for the day,

I take advantage of no interruptions.

This is the Calendar Wall Hanging that was 1st up.

I can't show it to you until I share it with the gals at Christmas Club.

I'm so happy to have it finished finally and can't wait to hang it.

Next up is baby quilt 1.

I don't know who designed this block. 

I've searched and searched but have no idea.

It was fun to sit down at EQ7 and figure it out.

Baby quilt #2

These will both go to a local charity.

I loved digging in my strip bins and using up strips from our swaps.

It was also fun deciding on backs for these.

I wanted fun and bright (and fabric out of my stash!).

My next retreat is next weekend.

I had already planned to work on Virginia Bound from

Bonnie Hunter's book Scraps & Shirttales.

My string bins are overflowing and I've wanted to make this one for a very long time.

Friday I decided to cook up my last Blue Moon pumpkin

and get the puree in the freezer.

My friend Pam gave me 3 of these,

I gave 1 to Crystal.

I saved the seeds from my 2 to share.

She saved her seeds too.

We are going to have plenty of pumpkins next year.

Isn't it pretty.

I don't think mine is going to last very long.

Hubs has decided he really really likes pumpkin bars.

We celebrated this weekend with Leland.

He's in the blonde in the middle.

Happy 9th birthday Big Guy! 💗

My plan for this week is to take a short break from quilting.

I'm going to make some doll clothes for some special girls

 and a couple sweaters for myself.

Then it's back to quilting.

This is the next quilt to be quilted.

Have you watched Angela Walters' on You Tube?

She has a series on Dot To Dot quilting.

That's what I'm going to do on this one. 

Or we can say that's my plan. 😉

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What a full, full week!

I picked up On Ringo Lake that my friend Jane quilted.

Lots of TV binding time and it's now finished.

Pictures next week after the reveal at retreat.

Of course there has to be a mistake that you find after the quilting is finished.

Thank goodness I'm not a perfectionist so it will not bother me that it's there.

Tuesday was a full day at home alone.

I picked up ORL and sewed the binding on

I made backs and bindings for this quilt and a baby quilt.

I pulled out the tables and got busy pin basting.

Before he came home, both quilts were basted and tables put away

and I was DONE! 

EXHAUSTED from a full day of taking major steps forward on 3 projects!! 

I'm hoping to start quilting this week but

retreat starts Thursday so that might not happen.

Needing another project to take to retreat, I pulled out my Moda Be My Neighbor UFO.

I'd seen one at the church where I picked up ORL and loved the way the sashings and borders were.

I decided to take my rows apart and add sashings.

I haven't worked on it since the November 2016 retreat.

The instructions were all printed, even some fabrics were chosen.

Now the last 5 blocks are kitted and ready to go.

I think it takes longer to choose and cut the fabric than it does to sew these awesome blocks.

It's fun to be excited about this UFO again.

I went to my favorite on line fabric store and bought the sashing fabric (It's a light gray)

 and 2 pieces for outer border, binding and back.

Maybe I can get the sashings cut before Thursday, just in case I get that far on the project.

I tell ya, I am in UFO busting mode!!

No sewing over the weekend because I was with these people while their parents

worked their booth at a craft fair.

What a fun, exhausting weekend we all had.

I got to sit outside and enjoy this view with my morning coffee.

Later in the day, friends brought their horses over to pasture.

I think it may have been the highlight of the kids weekend.

Enjoy your week.

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