Bee's, Cats and Dogs and Pumpkins

I don't know how long I can keep up this momentum but I'm rolling with it.  
Okay you need to sit down for this one.  If you have been reading my blog posts for a while - you will be shocked with this - Hang on to something.  Yep I quilted the Bee Hive Baby Quilt.

Oh yes I did.  Here is a couple of close ups.

Can you see the Bee in the right corner. I got that design from Lori Kennedy at the Inbox Jaunt.

And here is the backing.

As you know I belong to two guilds.  One of them has a quilt show every other year with the next show being March of 2018.  So we spend part of 2017 getting ready for it.  Part of our quilt show is our boutique where we sell stuff to raise money for the guild. At our last business meeting they had a few items laid out on a table asking to have them taken home and brought back at the next meeting.  

There was a little zip lock bag with a piece of muslin with the words embroidered - and this:    Here is what I did with it.

I think it turned out really cute. 

Then Wednesday I was not feeling 100% but wanted to play so I found this pumpkin thing that a friend had started and  ...... Here's what I did to finish it. 

 After all of that I really needed to get some of the hand stitching of the bindings done so I worked on that for the rest of the day.  
I finished the dog and cat and after yesterday I have  the Fall Wall Hanging done.  
Today I am heading out to the Cottage and going to work on my Bag Ladies.  They have been very neglected lately.  
Blessings, 
Lynn 

Good Start and High Hopes

My goals this month are a little on the light side.  I think I really just have maybe one goal and a lot of want to work on projects, or WIP's.  I've been really happy with my free motion quilting practice lately, (even though I still have a ways to go). So I want to keep going with it. I recently finished quilting the sheep quilt for my great granddaughter and then went to sew with my friends at the cottage on Friday.  There was another small charity Christmas quilt someone had pieced - that Annette and I had kited with backing, batting and binding in hopes someone would take and finish.  Well I volunteered to take it and got it pinned while I was there. Then I was on such a roll, I came home and pinned two more tops to have ready to go.  A Fall Wall hanging and a Java table runner.  First up - Fall. I started quilting the tree and was doing good when I realized the corner of the backing had flipped under and I had quilted it to the back.  GRRRR  :)  Sew after Un- sewing that.... here it is.   

I've had this top done for probably 5 years.  Here's how it looks from the back. 

Next up - the charity Christmas quilt I pinned at the cottage.  I am working on my meandering.  Strangely it does not come natural to me.  Also, my friend Patty freed me, she said what is the quilt going to be used for.  So even though it's a charity quilt I could practice fancy quilting on - it's also one that may be washed a lot and just needs to be quilted. So meandering should be just fine. 

I forgot to take a picture of the back it was the same fabric as the binding.  I took it to the cottage on Friday and got the binding done so left it there. That's pretty good for me.  I have tops that are years old and to think I pinned, quilted and bound a quilt in a week is a good sign. I'm encouraged to think I might be able to get that quilt top pile down to a manageable level.  

I have the java one and the bee hive one left that are pinned and ready go. I'm hoping to get both of them quilted this month also.  That may be high hopes.  I don't have a lot of goals, however I do have a couple of guild projects, a workshop and a retreat, so we'll see.

Yesterday we visited some friends and then took a drive to Las Vegas, so there wasn't any sewing or quilting. (#Vegas Strong - So sad about the massacre, and still praying for all it affected personally)   Today however - I think hubby will be golfing so I will see if I have some time to do something in the sewing room. 

Have a Blessed day!

Lynn