So close!

Mitered corners. Trimmed. Pressed. Started stitching. This is what I did last evening on the Harley quilt. I have one side sewn so I will finish the other three sides tonight, add a label and it will be done finally.

The rest of the weekend I will be making boxy pouches and a pecan pie. Have a wonderful Easter.

Binding, daffodils, and books

My daffodils are showing yellow. I don't know that they will open up for Easter, but it is a sign spring is here.

My Lenten roses are blooming too.

I sewed on the rest of the binding! Yeah! I was about a foot short of binding so I dug around in my scraps and found a piece of black Kona.

Tonight I will miter the corners.

I learned how to request books to purchase at the library and one of them arrived. The book about Welsh quilts was my request. The other was already at the library. I will be diving into these this weekend.

Binding and deer

I now have the binding sewn on two sides of the Harley quilt. I just can't believe how I have not been able to get into a groove with the changes in my daily schedule with this new job. It is frustrating not to have my lunch hours to do stuff around the house that I now have to do when I get home after a long day. Anyway, I have the third side binding lined up ready to pin.

Last evening I was running around doing stuff, looked out the window and saw a group of deer in the backyard. There is a pack of six that hang together. Does that qualify as a herd? LOL!!Some of them headed out front and I got a picture of three of them eating the new growth the daylilies are sending up. Once the daylilies get a bit taller the deer leave them alone until the flowers bloom and then they will eat those.

I took this picture thru the upstairs window so there is the reflection and my thumb! The group is four doe and two fawn that were born last summer.

AHIQ and pouch progress

I have not made the time to work on my AHIQ project which was to hand quilt a log cabin one block quilt I made in 2010. What I have been doing is making a t-shirt quilt. I finally got around to laying out the quilt for adding the binding at 5 this morning as I had a bit of time before I need to leave for work. All I need to do is pin the binding down and I can sew the first side tonight. I also cut the binding for the opposite side of the quilt so they would be the same length. I guess you could put this quilt in the utility category as I hope that whomever wins this quilt in the raffle uses this quilt.

Last evening phone calls delayed me in getting to tasks that needed done which cut into my sewing time. I had to strip the bed and wash sheets, and cook the beautiful pieces of salmon and a small roast I bought on Saturday so I would have something to take to work (I am took cheap to eat out very often). I did fire up the iron and pressed interfacing on some of the fabric for the boxy pouches. I still have more fabric to cut out for the lining pieces, but once I have all the fabric cut out and interfaced I can just sit and put the pouches together.
Yes, I have a lot of skull fabric! I plan on taking some of these this summer to the venues my nephew plays and maybe I can sell a few skull pouches to the motorcycle crowd when we play Bike week in a couple of towns. Ann of Fret not Yourself reminded me that I should make some with music fabric and she is right! Those will be coming along with making pouches to use up some of my novelty fabrics which I have a big stack.

Busy weekend

The weekend included an oil change, laundry, dishes, grocery shopping, and going to my brother's house to get my rake. I also finished quilting the Harley quilt. I did get the binding cut, sewn together and pressed, but not sewn on the quilt.

My box with interfacing had come from HomeSew and I wanted to start getting a bunch of boxy pouches cut out. I cut out a pile of interfacing pieces and then fabric for the outside and inside of the pouches. I used up some larger scraps which was great.

I cut the fabric 12 1/2" x 9 1/2" which will make a nice medium sized pouch. My sister wanted several more for her, her daughter and a friend so I need to get those made. Also last time I went to get my hair cut, I showed one of them to my beautician and a customer of another beautician saw it and wanted one for a friend of hers so I have to have that one made next time I go get my hair cut and hand it off. I also want to make a few to give family and friends for Easter.

Babies on quilts and a bit of progress

I was really tired when I got home from work yesterday so I didn't get much quilting done. I did get a bit done on this shirt although it is next to impossible to see the stitching.

So my goal this weekend is to finish the Harley quilt.

Last Friday Brenda from Scraps and Strings showed pictures of babies on quilts she had made. I hadn't showed pictures of babies on quilts for quite awhile that I had made so here we go!
These are babies that belong to friends of my sister

This is a baby that belongs to friends of one of my brothers and was born about two weeks ago

This sweet baby belongs to a couple that are friends of one of my brother's friends. It was funny to find out that me making quilts was part of my brother's conversation to a co-worker back stage setting up a show. I don't think the parents have used the quilt. LOL!!

And here is a baby of the furry variety.

Here is a sneak peek behind the scenes of the job I am now on. We are tearing down a parking deck - the hospital is across the street in the background

and we have done some replacement and rerouting of ductwork in one of the mechanical rooms

So have you ever seen one of these doors and wonder what it looked like behind it?

Take a look at what you would see!

There is also work going on in the basement and tunnel so there is a lot to keep up with.

Have a great weekend!

Getting closer

Yes, I am getting closer to having the Harley quilt quilted. I got the navy blue shirt done so I am at 91% done. That shirt had a lot of letters I had to stitch around!

Three shirts are left to quilt.