4th finish of 2012

Yeah! I got the hand sewing on the binding done while I watched TV last evening. There has been a bunch of babies born to co-workers in the last month so this will not stay in my stash very long. The print is soccer guys and symbols. I think I got this fabric in the bargain basement at Miller's Dry Good several years ago. The navy and rust fabric are batiks.

Here are some baby quilt tops I pulled of my TO DO Door rack. I will be making up backs and pin basting them. I like to get a bunch ready and then quilt them rather than doing them one at a time.

I need to update my dry erase sheet. Lots of done projects and a few that I can't even figure out which quilt I was describing! This list is from 2010 so it is about time to update it.

Have a wonderful and productive weekend!

The binding is on

I have the binding sewn on, the quilt trimmed, and ready for the hand stitching. I will do that tonight after work.

Check out how tall these daffodils are! It is the second day of February! These should not be out of the ground until April! These are next to the house and the brick warms up which has spurred these into popping out of the ground. The other ones in the middle of the yard have not started coming up. The ground has never frozen this winter and it is very soft.

Ahead of schedule for once

I finished quilting the cream, navy, and rust quilt this morning before work. I found some binding already cut that I think will look cute. At the beginning of the week I was hoping to have the quilting done by Thrusday and it is only Wednesday, so I am a little ahead of schedule. Tonight I will start sewing on the binding so this quilt ought to be done by the weekend.

We are having some wacky weather here in Ohio. It was 59 degrees when I went home after work and right now it is 46 degrees. I just saw two guys walk by and they didn't even have coats on! February - in like a lamb and out like a lion? Hope not, but the daffodils are confused!

2nd and 3rd finish of 2012

Now we are cooking with gas! The aqua quilt is finaly done! Here is the finished quilt, the back, and a detail shot.

So then I decided to quilt a baby quilt that I already had pin basted. I quilted it on Saturday and bound it on Sunday morning. This will go into my stash of quilts for when I need a quilt on short notice.

We had our annual company meeting yesterday and I knitted as I watched and listened. The space between the needles shows how much I got done. I hate just sitting and doing nothing.

Look at this lovely linen I scored a deal on. I am going to use it for baby quilts - something improv pieced. There was a good 10 yards of fabric and at least 7 1/2 of the large plaid which will be wonderful for the backs. The orginal price tags on the fabric was $74.00 a yard! I paid about $4.00 a yard for it.

Last evening I started quilting the last pin basted baby quilt left from last summer. I should have it done by the weekend then I can work on pin basting a few more baby sized tops I have laying around.

Are you tired of seeing that aqua quilt yet?

Well, I mitered the corners, trimmed and got a little more than half way around the quilt with hand sewing the binding. I am like a turtle on this quilt - slow, but steady!

Yesterday I had made salmon bisque soup and this morning tomato basil in my Vitamix. I having been sharing my soup with a woman at work that just got braces and she can't eat anything but soup. She has been a great guiney pig for my mad experiments! I am having the leftover salmon bisque for breakfast this morning. Yum!

Here is a picture of my desk this morning. I have been getting stuff done and this is the best my desk has looked since I have returned from surgery. Remeber last summer when I was wrestling file boxes and drawings for storage? Well, I have been working and prepping more stuff for storage and I can handled the drawings and file boxes without feeling a thing from my surgery!

My plans for the weekend include finishing the aqua quilt, I am going to get that suit altered, and figure out what my next project will be. I plan on staying home all weekend and sew except for a haircut appointment Saturday morning. I just hope it quits snowing - it is coming down hard this morning.

Binding is on, but ...

I still need to miter the corners, trim the edges, and do the hand sewing. I did give the quilt a good pressing before I attached the binding because one of the edges was a bit wavy with all the rows of quilting.

I got a new toy

I have wanted a Vitamix every since I saw it on QVC. Well, they had them on special and I bought one. Last night I made hot soup in it. I made Smokey paprika pumpkin soup. There is no heating element in the unit - just the speed the soup spins so fast it causes enough friction for the soup to get hot - pretty neat. Tonight I am making salmon bisque. Being single I have a tendency not to eat a nutritous dinner. It is a pain to cook for one person, so now I can come home and make a batch of soup as quick as I can open a couple of cans, toss in some veggies, and in less than 10 minutes have tasty hot soup.

Today's lunch - yum!

I got the binding cut for the aqua quilt. Here it is on the design wall. I cut some of the strips into shorter pieces to mix things up and so the binding looked more like it was made with scraps.