Full view

As promised last week, here is the full front view of the quilt I did last week!

Quilting and quilting ...

Hello, hello.  Been a busy week, so I have been fighting for my quiling time.  I'm working on my stash sample for April's class's, so trying to fit it all in.  Just finished this beauty ...

Such a pretty quilt ... This was our stash class pattern from a couple months ago.  Love it!

Just did a close loopy loop .. Simple and will look pretty when it's washed and all puckery!

Do you see there is no room at the end of this?  Whew!  I would like to say I did a great job and look how it worked out perfectly ... Except I would be lying to you!!  I was about 2 " short on the backing.  I must have mismeasured ...  Not sure how it happened, but I pulled it off the frame, cut some extra fabric from the sides, seamed it together and sewed it on the bottom.  I just had enough!  This is a friend of mine's quilt, and the backing was pieced already, so I don't think she will mind.  That very rarely happens, but it is the pits when it does! ... oops, I forgot to take a pic of the entire quilt.  I will add that tomorrow.

Working away ...

I am keeping myself busy here ... The next quilt I  finished is a colorful customer quilt.

This is the third quilt I have done for her and they are all quite colorful!  I love the paper piecing in the border.

I decided to do a circle swirl in the center of each block ... Just to do something a little different.

She wanted to keep the costs down since it is quite a large quilt.  I stippled the rest of it.  I had a lovely deep purple thread (which I'm pretty sure I bought for one of her last quilts!), and it just went well with all the fabrics.

I think she's going to love it.

She loves to do the tops, but always asks me to make the backs and binding.  Happy to do it as I like making backs and I do love bindings too!  I got all the binding almost sewed on and realized I was one strip short ... Haha!  Oops ... Guess my math was a little off.

It takes several hours to hand sew a binding of this size ... Probably at least. 4.  Not very cost effective ... So I attached the binding by machine.  You sew the binding onto the back instead of the front.  Then you pull the binding around to the front, and if you are pretty careful, and the stars all align right, you get the stitching lined up perfectly on the back as well as the front!  This is the back of the quilt.

And here's the front ... Even on a big quilt like this it still took 1 1/2 hours to get that all sewn down.  I think she's gonna love her finished quilt!,

Happy Quilting

Trying to jam on some quilting I needed to do ... It makes me happy when I am productive!  Speaking of happy ... Look at what I got the pleasure of quilting this week.

My friend that is a prolific quilter has done another baby quilt with this adorable pattern ... I think this is quilt 3, but only the second one I have quilted.  She had made a bazillion baby quilts -- no lie!  

Can't remember the name of this line of fabric, but each color and print I came to was my favorite.  I could have quilted it all day long!!  And to make it even more yummy ... Minky on the back ... Serious in love with that for a backing!!

She is a speedy sewer and loves to tease me with her non-traditional way of sewing her borders on.  Her slap dash method makes the quilt teacher in me crazy, however I can't argue with her product as she produces a beautiful, flat quilt!  Borders included ... Nice and square.  

It is a pleasure to quilt for her!  She likes tight, small quilting, and so I did my signature swirl.  Using my favorite Superior Omni thread in the lovely color of Natural White.

The light was a little bright, so I used a different filter from my Instagram feed ... Check it out ...