Both came out of the dryer with wrinkles. I guess they are just a little too big for the space available.
Sewing the binding on the back of Eleanor's Pink & Green Bargello, I found that the quilting lines show up very well through the polar fleece. It is currently in the dryer, so I will take a full photo later. Where is the fabric I was going to use for a matching pillowcase?
And here is how the quiltiing looks on LaShawn's flannel quilt. I told Catherine to make it "more feminine" with flowers, since the front has some pretty masculine fabrics. I just finished the binding and label and it is now in the washer.
I've been taking the next steps with this neonatal quilt. I found this cute paper doll fabric online, cut squares, decided on brown sashing, and got to this stage tonight. I'm going to let the border decisions percolate overnight.
Despite all the UFO work, or BECAUSE of all the UFO work, I have started a new quilt.
I have so far made 22 blocks, which look to me like Kleenex boxes! However, they are pretty easy to construct, and I am whipping along toward the end of having 88 of them.
After church today I began another Neonatal quilt, as usual made of leftovers from another project.
I hung up "Difference of Opinion" to get a better photo, even tho' I see there are quite a lot of wrinkles still.
Even though I was not free to go AWAY on retreat, I have been working at home.
After I have quite a few made in a "wonky" fashion, I thought I should make ONE that was a REGULAR Log Cabin. Probably put that one in the very middle of them all to show where they came from.
Now that I see it, I wish I had been even MORE daring and made the sashing even more wonky.
While I am waiting for the other charity quilts to be quilted and come back from Catherine, I made two pillowcases. The red one is made to match the red and white Zigzag that was finished just at the end of 2009.
And here is each quilt packed into the pillowcase, ready to send off!
Sara
Today I took the "foursies" of flannel waste triangles that I put together a few days ago, and I have been seaming away. It is six blocks by nine, so forty intersections to match through the machine. O my gosh, was it really that many? No, it was eighty, two intersections per block.
And here's view of the end result. I decided to set them randomly rather than any of the several "organized" sets that I tried first.
I was able to finish the binding yesterday before the Bee meeting. So, it's DONE.
So after that excitement, today the box with the Christmas 9-patches and Snowball blocks was still out in the sewing room--- and I thought, "Why not just get these finished off?"
Those flannel blocks are NOT completely sewn together, but they might just be the next thing I work on. I did make a diagram of my plan for them.
Here's my first UFO finish for 2010. It had mostly blue Christmassy fabric in the 9-patch and snowball blocks. It's meant for a boy who likes Scooby-Doo.
The back is polar fleece lauding the St. Louis Rams football team. Clever Catherine copied the ram symbol into the quilting design. The binding is made of various blue scraps of previous bindings.
Now I am putting together the "waste" triangles from the flannel Square-in-a-Square blocks. The original squares were so big that these cut-off corners are 5.5". For a first step I have joined them into "foursies", each triangle pointing the same way. There are 38 of these. I think with just making two more of the plain four-patch I will have enough to make a twin top 60" x 90"..JPG)
