I've been busy in the sewing room lately, but don't have much on the design surface. Our County Fair entries were due last weekend and I waited until the last minute to try to get a few things entered. First I decided to try to finish a whole baby quilt in a day, starting from a few finished flying geese blocks I had. Sanity prevailed by Saturday evening though I did get all the individual geese made. In the end, I submitted only three quilts. A Halloween wall hanging I wanted to submit is missing and I have no clue what I did with it. Also not completed in time were two mini quilts:
I started with just the center star I made up a couple of years ago and I wanted to add the triple sashing. It got as far as being ditch quilted and the binding mostly attached but I just ran out of time! This mini is about 12" square.
Tiny HSTs compose the center flag (it's about 5x10") and I had fun mixing and matching scraps for the corner squares and borders. I've stitched in the ditch but it could use more frosting--I'll channel Janet if I get brave. This obviously also didn't get finished for the Fair. There's always next year! I submitted grandson Hunter's black and white baby quilt, a comfort quilt I made for our neighbor's son who was fighting cancer (and won!), and a Christmas quilt. My sister entered an art quilt she designed of a penguin diving, and a modern abstract piece in black and white. Not sure what day I'll get to go to the Fair, maybe not until after next weekend.
I'm most pleased about a new longarm service offered at my LQS and yesterday I spent about two hours prepping the back of a UFO that has been waiting for years to be quilted.
This is my version of a mystery quilt that Judy had in 2010. I loved how my fabric selections turned out but had a heck of a time with the backing and this poor quilt has remained in the closet for about four years. Today I took it to the LQS and selected Baptist Fan for the quilting. Looking back on blog posts about this quilt, I may need to made some leaders for the sides, as I noted I barely made the backing wide enough and the longarmer wants 4 inches all around. But she won't be getting to my quilt for a couple of weeks so I have time. By the time she finishes one quilt for me, I'll have another ready. Time to get these UFOs out of the closet!
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