My Love Affair

I am still in love.  However, my Love Affair is almost over. I have so enjoyed making this quilt and it will soon be making its way to a new home. Sigh! 

 For the back this fabulous camouflage. Love it and it goes so perfectly.

Now I just have to get the binding on. The wedding is next week! Nothing like a deadline to move projects along.

WIP my secret quilt

I have admired this quilt since I saw it in a magazine. My family thought it was boring. Black Dress II. Swoon! They also reminded me I was not to be buying fabric, since I was on the fabric fast and all.

 So, I bought the material in secret. Have cut it out in secret. And I am still in love! I feel as if I am having an illicit love affair. It is so exciting when I get time to work on it! Don't tell.

It's a Finish!

I made my girls the Holiday Hustle quilts from Sew Lux. They were Aspen Frost by Basic Grey, In From the Cold by Kate Spain and Holiday Frost by Jan Shade Beach.

I just finished the last one. You can't really see it in the photo's but I thought I would try my hand at FMQ.  I bought myself a book "Beginner's Guide to Free-Motion Quilting" by Natalia Bonner. Read through the beginning chapters and decided to dive right in. I did loops and stars. It is waaaay harder than it looks, however, after my third quilt it looks marginally better. Not sure if you put quilt one and quilt three side by side if you could really see any progression in skill.

It is done. Now there is just mine to finish.

Linking up to TGIFF

Merry Christmas

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

My daughter and family have left. They were with me for three weeks. We had a fabulous time. I had a moment when they were planning the visit to mourn my unfinished Christmas quilts! Then, I had a reordering of priorities. What is more important? Spending time with my daughter and granddaughters or finishing quilts? So I wrapped them up and called them finished enough!

I managed to almost finish four Christmas quilts. Three were the Holiday Hustle quilts from Sew Lux. One required quilting through the outer border. Done yesterday morning!

One requires all the quilting. My daughter has moved it onto my sewing machine! Done today!

And the third requires the binding sewn down and all the quilting done. I have a bad habit of finishing the quilts just enough so I can sit in the evenings and hand sew the binding. Love!

The fourth quilt is just a sandwich quilted in squares for my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter. My daughter took it home with her to finish sewing down the binding. I will give her a month!

Robyn, my daughter, made a pillow for her sister's husband to match the pillow she had made for her sister. Turned out fabulously!!! She is now talking about making one for herself. Love it that she has taken to quilting!

Best wishes for the holiday season! I have used the lesson learned on reordering priorities several times during this holiday. When things start to feel out of control, I take a deep breath and check to see if my priorities are still in the correct order. Family first!