A very quick finish

I bought this little memory box recently with the intention of doing something patchworky on the top.

 I cut 40 1" squares from my scrap jar and pieced them together, trying to pay no attention to placement of colours.  I put my little piece on wadding, quilted it in the ditch with invisible thread, and used 505 spray to adhere it to the little board.

 I use this box to hold these labels, which I use as thread catchers throughout the year.  I make hundreds of these for craft fairs around Christmas!

A really quick, cute and satisfying little finish!

ALYOF - July

I know, I know, it's not in the must do list, but I'm nominating a bag for the Festival of Quilts, mostly because I have an idea floating around my head!

Q3 Goals

Going for an ambitious list here!  Don't think I have any photos, so this is more a list for me to check back on.  Hopefully as I get through these, I'll be able to show more!

Must do
Baby quilt for M
Tractor from Farm Girl Vintage (one for Dad's birthday, then one for me)
Peacock wallhanging for Aunt M's birthday
Christmas ornaments that have been ordered

Should do
This is things for craft fairs:
Apple core table runner
Small nativity panel
Large nativity panel
At least 5 advent calendars
At least 5 stockings
Baby panel
QAYG sampler quilt

Want to do
Sal's quilt
Pink Karma quilt
Blue Karma quilt
Bag for Festival of Quilts
Christmas cushion
"Press" wallhanging
Dog quilt

12 1/2" FGV block for wallhanging
Music player mat
Mini Christmas cushions x 2
Pat Archibald junk
Pat Archibald elephant
Jennie Rayment cushion
Softies: Dachshund, cow, elephant

Not strictly finishes
Finish quilting L's quilt
Put together jelly roll flimsy

Last finish for Q2

The first of the cut/press/sew/quilt wallhangings by Lori Holt.  I backed it in a super thick calico.  When I was quilting it it sounded like quilting through cardboard, but it has the neatest corners I've ever seen and it's hanging really well.  Just noticed I don't have a button sewn in the middle, whoops!

Pretty chuffed with this quarter's worth of finishes!

Dodging a headache

My eyes are going all skew-whiffy tonight, so I'm rushing this post while I can still focus.

 Another Q2 goal.  I made this for Fiddlesticks Fabrics a couple of years ago and in the hurry to finish I only managed some basic stitch in the ditch.  I decided I'd quilt this up for a free motion class I was teaching, deliberately only quilting half.

 Ribbon candy on yellow, stipple in blue, loops in green, straight lines on brown and a free hand scallop around the panels.

Mum holding up the quilt for a full view.

Quilt is approx 41" x 54".

One more finish for tomorrow!

Friday, finish, FGV, photobomb

After my very productive couple of days, I've only been able to grab moments here and there.  I got the last few inches of binding finished today.  We've been down on the farm all day making silage (down all day yesterday, didn't happen as it rained too much, total waste of a day!) and I went to get some photos while everyone else was on a tea break.

Close up of the quilting - "Lighthearted" from Step By Step Free-Motion Quilting by Christina Cameli.  I wanted something fairly flowing and this was lovely.

 I decided to try somewhere else for photos, and found this funky broken branch.  Look behind the quilt (hard, I know, it's rather bright) - can you see our boys?

 Definitely intrigued!

 I moved to another gate - this is where they are usually fed.

 And here they all are, thinking they're going to scrounge another meal!

Quilt Stats (an idea nicked from Sandra at Musings of a Menopausal Melon:
Size: 60 x 60 inches
Quilting: Lighthearted by Christina Cameli
Thread: Superior Threads King Tut "Sunstone"

 So here's my Fresh Pears block (pips not sewn yet)

and Feed and Seed.

And now, I'm sitting with my feet up, trying to work out a banner, eating Tayto crisps (the only crisps) and relaxing!

Linking up (I hope) with TGIFF and Can I Get A Whoop Whoop

The finishes are going to come thick and fast...

and here's the next one:

I thought this wasn't going to happen.  As I said in my last post, I had this in the car to finish sewing the binding and it picked up a couple of dirty marks.  I was dubious about the colour running, but thankfully it didn't!  It's a little crinkly though, despite all my best efforts.  Boo.

Here's a photo of it in the window to try and make it look a bit more stained glass, but it's a dull day here today.  It was one of my oldest UFOs, so I'll be glad when I have it hanging.

Once that went ok, I got into a bit of a whirlwind and got loads done.  Everything that follows has been done from Saturday til yesterday - I was in such a blur I didn't stop to take photos.  I spent today in the car going to and from the airport.

This is quilted and 3/4 bound (most of binding sewn in car today):

"Are you honestly still trying to get photos of me?"

 "Fine, here I am, looking cute."

Incidentally, see all the tufts of thread in the second photo of this?  My machine was fine to begin with, but then went a bit bonkers, and the thread kept catching around the lowered feed dogs.  I couldn't tell for ages that that's what it was catching on, and once I did I decided to put the feed dogs back up and that solved everything, thank goodness.

 I pieced this along with the next two FGV blocks (I'll post those on Friday) and quilted it; just some straight line quilting and binding to go.

 I also pieced this - I intend quilting this in the next quarter finish along.  Just needs its borders now.  I also had this in pink, discovered a mistake and have it all ripped and ready to re-assemble.

 "OMG, I love quilt tops!"

 "Haha, I move too fast for your camera!"

 "Wheeeeeee!"

 "Well,that display of enthusiasm was embarrassing, going to hide now"

Anyway, the colours weren't great when I took them inside, here it is outside.  I love the specific green and blue that are in this, just lovely.

I also got more quilted on my monkeys quilt, and it is about 95% finished.  I have high hopes of having almost all on my list finished by the end of the month!  Unfortunately, I'll lose tomorrow as we're making silage... oh, what fun!