Finally Finished!

The wedding quilt for Dear Daughter #1 is finally complete.

It only took almost FOUR years!

I just checked....

here's the very first post......

November 2009.

Here I'd been thinking it had been only 2 plus years!

TIME FLIES!

It fits MY bed JUST right!!!

 

Lots and LOTS of petals were painstakingly

hand appliqued onto squares

following a pencil line as my guide.

Since the instructions for this quilt along

were never completed and I couldn't figure out

some of it....

circles of petals were appliqued onto a VERY large!

EXTRA large!

piece of muslin!!!

I quilted this on my machine.

(ms. Juki)

Tension problems made the job more difficult.

ugh!

After quilting around each petal

I echoed the petals in the border.

 

I love the way it looks...

just wish my quilting was PERFECT!

Do we all LONG to be perfect quilters???

I'd actually settle for

HALF decent quilting!!!

;/

I pieced together a backing large enough.

90"x90"!!

Another effort at USING what I already OWN!

 

After looking high and LOW for a suitable binding,

Asking myself....

What color should I use???

 

I ended up with MUSLIN!

LOL!

It really IS the perfect touch.

It's all curled up on the floor....

waiting to be put into a box.

A box that will TRAVEL!!!

 

Yippee!

Happy to be done.

BUT....at the same time

Kind of SAD.

Sad to see my GOOD friend leaving home.

 

 

Celebrate

Celebrate with me!!!!

 

Sing along!

 

Dance along!

The Petals are ALL appliqued on!

 

Spread the NEWS!

Shout it from the housetops!

 

It's TIME to CELEBRATE!!!!

 

 

Seriously.

I want you to SING!

 

 

 

The END is in sight!

My Thursday mornings are paying off!!!

I've spent the last few Thursday mornings working on this

LONG, SLOW project!

It helps to have friends sitting around the table

working on their OWN things

as I stitch!

 

This one is for my daughter and son-in-law.

A wedding gift.

;)

The wedding is only a memory now.

 

SEVEN more petals to GO!!!

 

Maybe I'll even get it DONE

before NEXT Thursday morning!!!

THAT would be SOMETHING!

 

I can see the end of THIS applique project!

 

Then....

it needs to be quilted.

:/

Hope THAT doesn't take me 2 years!!!!

UNfinished Friday

'

This quilt is NOT finished.

But....

It's getting there!

 

This was a quilt-along I started

before I new better!

HAh!

We were instructed to applique petals onto squares.

The last few directions NEVER appeared....

 

So......

How do you get all the squares TOGETHER??

 

I ended up folding and trimming everything OUTSIDE

the circle and appliqueing each circle

onto a VERY BIG piece of muslin

setting them RIGHT next to each other

as I went along.

 

I began in the middle

of the VERY BIG piece of fabric...

folded a middle line and used that for my guide.

 

It worked PRETTY good.

NOT perfect.

 

And....

I'm almost done!

 

I need a few more petals around the edge

to EVEN things out.

 

Can you see my pencil lines there?

 

A few more Thursday mornings

appliqueing petals onto this VERY big quilt.

 

It's not easy doing needle turn applique on a
VERY big piece of fabric!

;/

Good thing I have a nice big TABLE to work on!

 

This one's ALSO UNfinished.

OB-viously!

LOL!

 

I had fun with someone's orphan blocks.

Made a few of my own to blend in.

ADDED a center.....

Kind of a backwards way to do it....

Should have appliqued in that WHITE space

BEFORE sticking it in the center.

AH WELL........

That's the way I think sometimes.  ;)

I plopped a recent project in the middle

just to SEE what it might look like.

 

Hey!

I think I like it.

IF I make that applique design a bit bigger....

it JUST might work!!!

 

That's it for my

UNFINISHED FRIDAY!!!

 

The end is in SIGHT!

A few weeks ago I made a commitment.

"Thursday mornings will be SET ASIDE for this."

 

Guess what?

I didn't give it 100%

I missed some Thursday mornings.

:(

But I DID Pull it out SOME Thursday mornings...

and I'm glad I did!!!

 

I can see the finish line!!!!

Whoo HOOO!!!!

 

Hey!

I'm so close.....

I might work on it Saturday morning too!!!!

;)

Slow going

I am a pretty QUICK quilter...

but some things Just take TIME!!!

 

This quilt is ONE of them!!!

It's teaching me patience.

 

I surely need more of that!

;)

These are my tools.

My Mission:

Get this one done for my daughter

before she gets married on

MAY 5!!!

Eeeek!

 

I've committed my Thursday mornings to the task.

No MATTER WHAT I feel like doing!!!

:/

 

Will it get done??
Inquiring minds would like to know...

SO....my friends....

would I!!!!

 

I began this quilt way back HERE!!!

I am appliqueing each finished circle

onto a BIG (bed sized) piece of muslin.

I baste them on...

then I applique them on.

I am NOT following the directions.

:/

Do I EVER????

Nah!

That would be too EASY!

LOL!

One week.

For one week...

I looked at beauty.

Alaskan BEAUTY!!

Such a well-tended garden!

I also ate the BEST seafood chowder EVER!!

I'm going to start looking for a RECIPE!!!

I want to eat this every day!

This guy was sooo cute!!!

I saw more green than I've ever seen!

GREEN!!!

GREEN!!!

GREEN!!!

I camped a little with my daughter.

And went to a few quilt shops.

You know you're a REAL quilter...

when .....

You go to quilt shops even on

NON-quilting Vacations!!

;)

That's what I thought, anyway.

I needed some more fabric for my joseph's coat.

 I was so happy...

why??....

It means I'm making progress!!!

;)

Had to buy some UNnecessary fabric....

Plus...

some more UNnecessary fabric.

Oooooh! and I read.

What a good book!!!

Now...

Back to my sewing machine!!!

I've missed her humming along!

I also missed the first ripe tomatoes!

AND......

I missed this.

Can you believe he painted while I was gone??

My HERO!!

Unfinished

Since I leave tomorrow....

I'll have to leave this fun project

UNFINISHED!!!

I won't be using a sewing machine for a

WHOLE WEEK!!!

I'm prepared though!!

Joseph's Coat......

HERE. I. COME!!!!

emergency bag

I am SO glad I had this little project bag READY!!!

You never know when you're going to NEED a hand project!

My SOMEDAY quilt got some quality time today!

Because SOMEBODY at my house loves football.

:/

He's o.k.

They're calling it a big ol' bad BRUISE...i.e......contusion.

Question:

Anyone know why young men

or anyone else for that matter.....

likes football???

I give him a hard time about it frequently.

:)

What makes intelligent people want to

++++CRASH++++

into each other???

I just

DON'T

GET

it.

BIG project Blues.

When you're working a huge project...

do ever wonder...

WHY, oh why, did I EVER begin this?

What possessed me?

I'll never have enough of these!!!

Yep.

That's what I was thinking yesterday.

I even had some bad dreams about it last night.

IS that a GOOD sign or BAD????

:/

I've appliqued

LOTs and lots of these circles.

The last time I posted about this one is here.

Yesterday I trimmed and pressed.

then I appliqued some circles onto a VERY large piece of muslin.

I used the crease of the fabric as my center line.

I have a LONG way to go.

:(

I was feelin' kind of overwhelmed

with the size of this project.

Then...

This little something came in the mail.

Oh MY!!!

Did my mood change!!!!

I just LOVE this little bit of

wonderful patchwork!!

I MORE than love it!!!

Michele even included some yummy fabric!

Michele....

Your timing was perfect.

I'm not feeling BLUE anymore.

;)

someday

This is my "Someday" quilt.

Someday.... I'll have enough blocks for a quilt.

Someday.....I'll have needleturned my last leaf.

Someday...... I'll figure out HOW to put the blocks together.

This past weekend I only had time for ONE block.

Someday is probably a L-O-N-G way off!

This Dear Daughter wants Someday to be sooner!

In other words...

I think she likes it!

I think she might want it!

Oh good.

All that work for.....

SOMEONE!!!