2020 Finish #9

Hooray! Virginia Bound is a finished quilt!!!

She already has a home in our travel trailer. 

I also busted some hunks of fabric for the back.

Scrappy front needs a scrappy back.

Quilting is simple meander.

Scrappy black binding came from my binding box.

I need to use more black binding since there was only 4 inches left over.

I'm Back With A Design Wall Monday Post

I certainly didn't intent to take a long blog break, I thought maybe a week or so but it turned into 3 weeks.  I don't know how consistent I'll be now but I'll give it a go today.

I've been putting blocks together!

Virginia Bound and Chunky Churndash leader/ender blocks.

(VB is in Scraps and Shirttails and CC is a free pattern on the Quiltville blog.)

I hope the next time (after the reveal at retreat) you see VB,

it will be a completed quilt.

That's my plan right now. 

In my last blog post I told you about getting sidetracked with these blocks.

I had planned to take these to retreat and work on them.

But my plans changed as I sewed and trimmed just a few more and a few more.

Pretty soon there were no more blocks to take to retreat.

Survivor was on so I grabbed the stack of blocks and an empty trash bag

and plopped myself down on the couch to watch TV and depaper.

On Saturday I got out the Go! Cutter and took care of a pile of scraps.

When that was finished, I decided to go ahead and get the blocks into

4s so I could sew my big blocks at retreat.

Bahahahaha,

I have several of them already sewn together.

I'm now hoping to reveal the finished quilt at retreat 

since I how have a new roll of batting and renewed energy.

We spent a couple weekends at the beach.

The beach always refreshes my soul.

I took along some fabric strips with a plan to cut and kit up some blocks.

I think there are 40 little blocks ready to go.

These will to taken to retreat.

Maybe. 😉

Now I'm headed over to check on what everyone else is working on at

Small Quilts and Doll Quilts Design Wall Monday.

Until next time,

Have a wonderful week.

Design Wall Monday

Look, I've been sewing!

Saturday I was cleaning my sewing room and it was time to take a break.

I have a giant bag of scraps that were gifted to me by my friend BJ.

I decided to use my break time by sorting and cutting some of these scraps.

I was also getting things together for retreat next month..

Right there, staring me in the face, was my box with Virginia Bound by Bonnie Hunter.

It's one of my favorites from her Scraps and Shirttails book.

I started it at the fall retreat with plans to work on it again in the spring

I pulled it out to put on the retreat pile.

Maybe I'll just sew neutrals to a few blocks.

There were 2 that the centers were already trimmed, ready for neutrals.

That's when the squirrel came out. 

Oh heck, may as well get the centers to the others trimmed up and ready to work on at retreat.

I'm not sure how many a few are but this is only 2 of a pretty good pile

that I already had the centers done.

They are now all completed, trimmed and depapered. 

Sunday Morning comes around and the Mojo is strong!

Ernie already had plans for the day so I decided to sew more blocks.

And more and more and more.

Just like Lay's potato chips,

you can't eat just one!

I started this audiobook Saturday afternoon.

I'm pretty far into it and it is so good.

I'd never read anything from Kristin Hannah.

I'm really happy with whoever shared this book. 

I headed right over to my library and placed holds on all of her audiobooks.

Her books are several weeks out but I'm sure they will be worth the wait.

I added several ebooks to my wish list for when I'm finished with the series I'm reading.

I LOVE MY LIBRARY!

The ability to down load books to my Kindle and

other devices is priceless to me. 

See what others are sharing at

Small Quilts and Doll Quilts Design Wall Monday.

Have a wonderful week. 

Design Wall Monday

I had my list of projects to work on at retreat.

First on the list was to put the binding on this quilt.

I'll hand stitch it down this week while watching tv at night.

Next up was to finish up the doll clothes.

I had the pants finished and made this shirt.

I'll make the remaining shirts at home and mail them to my friend this week.

My machine doesn't like to sew skinny knit seams.

But she does great paper piecing which was my next project

 and what I worked on the rest of the weekend.

I ended the weekend with 20 completed Virginia Bound quarters and

18 more with the centers sewn.

Mindless string sewing is a great retreat project.

When I got home from retreat, 

my energy level was low but my mind wouldn't shut off.

I decided to create a temporary design wall to work on this baby quilt.

It wasn't as easy as it was in my mind but I got it done.

Now I'll make progress on the baby quilt.

 Monday morning edit:
Blocks fell off into a pile on the floor.

I'll continue to use my bed as a design wall until I purchase some foam insulation.

BooHoo.

As I do with each retreat, 

I stopped to take a picture of the tree snag.

The fall colors were stunning.

The weather was clear and cold and beautiful!

My project list is long but my energy level is high!

We had a great time with friends old and new.

I especially love when I can retreat with one of my daughters.

Check out other Design Walls at Small Quilt and Doll Quilts.