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!

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!

A dry-ish January

in sewing terms, that is.  I've been nursing badly pulled muscles around my shoulder blade all month, and only managed a little sewing in the last day or two.  I had hoped to have this finished for A Lovely Year of Finishes, but there's no binding on it yet.  I guess that can roll over to next month!

It's not immediately obvious, but I quilted just to the edge of the bias binding.  I used an invisible thread to help cover my wobbles - I was driving left-handed!

The wobble on the left hand there is really bugging me.  It's only obvious (I hope) in person, but it looks awful here!

Long time, no post...

I've been keeping up with my page on Facebook, so am encouraged to try blogging again.  I'm going to try out a Lovely Year of Finishes, to see if that helps me keep up the blogging habit.  To that end, my goal for this month is to quilt and bind this wallhanging:

I made this long ago, and stalled when it came to quilting it.  In the absence of anything else, I'm going to stitch in the ditch around the outlines, just to get it moving on.

See you soon!