sewing with friends

I was able to sew with friends on Saturday.

We began a quilt for a GIRL.....

And one for a BOY.

These quilts will be given to graduating senior high school students

who attend our church.

We used up LOTS of scraps sewn onto paper foundations.......

And SMILED the WHOLE time!!!

Vintage

Nifty got me thinking about vintage this week.

I prepared a little package of fabric for her fabric swap....

then I remembered....

I had some 4" squares that are a little bit on the old side....

Hidden away in a box, of course.

Isn't that how you camoflauge your fabric stash???

No one's EVER sure just HOW much fabric you have.

;0

They're JUST the right size for this block

and...

I love them.

I added a solid.

some half square triangles.

Ooops!!!

I just started another quilt!

:/

Almost....

I'm getting REALLY close to a finish here.

Last week I thought I had ARRIVED!

I was able to sew THREE rows together as I talked with friends.

It was nice.

THEN!!!!!

I had to RIP it ALL out!!!!

Eeek!

I had put them ALL together backwards!!!!

See that white diagonal going through there????

I want that to continue through the WHOLE quilt...

not zigzag at the END!!!

;)

Hmmm....

Today.....I'm going to do it RIGHT!!!!

;)

Thankful.

Today I'm thankful....

 I'm thankful for a big chunk of time yesterday to get some blocks together.

This quilt was worrying me.

I don't know why I was stressing about this gift...

but I was.

I'm also thankful for leftovers.

Maybe they'll be in the border...???.

I'm thankful they're ALL 2 1/2" wide. ;)

I'm thankful for all the friends that pass on fabric to me.

I thought about THEM as I was piecing yesterday.

I'm thankful I have enough white for sashing this quilt.

I hope I'll remember to use the SAME. exact. white

as I go along.

Have you ever used DIFFERENT whites in a quilt???

I have.

It doesn't work.

;/

I'm thankful I won't need to BUY anything for this quilt!

I have QUITE enough fabric.

I have to keep telling myself that....

Over and over again.

Winners!

Mr. Random Generator chose two winners:

Holly and Vesuviusmama.

Congratulations!

I enjoyed reading about your cooking styles,

your love of baking,

and

I even got inspired to cook something NEW!!!

;)

Today I'm beginning a very simple quilt

for my niece.

I've been digging in the stash.....

and making a BIG monday MESS!!!!

;/

Surprise!

I was very surprised today to find MY quilt

(along with the rest of the BRIDGES exhibit quilts)

on THIS blog!!!

Hey!

I'm even the cover girl!

;)

Friday

Well....I wasn't going to quilt this little quilt....

I was going to fold it up and put in the stack of

"Someday" quilts.

But...

In the middle of the week I was transformed

into a QUILTING MACHINE!!!!

I had already quilted one baby quilt...and knew I could do this one too!!!

I had this cute fabric in my stash for the backing.

Just enough!

And I had these swirls in my mind.

It's such a tiny quilt....it went FAST!!!

Then....I was rewarded for my efforts!!!

I visited a friend yesterday and ran into this quilt!

It was hanging on her sofa! :)

This is one of my FIRST, REAL, Follow the PATTERN kind of quilt!

This was a mystery quilt

designed by someone in the guild and made at the

VERY first retreat I ever went on!

WOW!

What an eye opener that retreat was!

I had no idea how many quilters there were.....

How many quilt shops there were...

How many quilt magazines there were.... 

..........

I spent a lot of time on the quilt tag.

I rolled the backing over to the front

because I didn't know how to add a binding!

Hey!

I even handquilted it!!!

What a nice reward to see this at the end of my week!

I see I've learned a lot about quilting over the last few years...

which inspires me to learn EVEN more in the future!!!!

Have a GREAT weekend!

Hope it includes some sewing! ;)