What a day yesturday! Really beautiful weather and good driving. My mom and I went to four stores for the shop hop and didn't get back to her place until just after 5:45 pm. It was nice, but I was so busy today that I didn't get a chance to sort out all that I got. So I will save the show and share of that for another day. Mom made a whole chicken on the barbeque with mini potatoes and asparagus, while I dug in the dirt to level off a section and relocate her platform for her barbeque. My daughter joined us for dinner, and we ended the day with a nice fire out back. Couldn't have been any better!
Today I was up and running with quilting for customers. I got three quilts quilted and decided that I had enough, considering it was 5:30 pm. I figured I needed some me time to sort things out and play with fabric some. I sorted out my list of quilts in progress and have decided that I really do need to put the breaks on starting any new quilts, until I can get some more done...that was just about the time that I decided to do up three others...lol. To my defense, these three were technically blocks already from my rejected samples, that I decided to turn into a reversable quilts. There will be more about those too in a future post. I am already over half way done on one of them.
As I don't have any pictures from the past two days to share with you, I will leave you with this recent finish. This is the fairy quilt. This quilt came about as a challenge to myself to start using up all the odd stuff I found while unpacking. This small 12" high fabric with fairies in a garden theme of flowers, watering cans, etc. was the starting off point. I also had a bunch of 2.5" squares that I was given, that appears to have been a sample of a line of fabric, or a few of them, plus some smaller pieces of fabric I had to deal with that were in the colours I needed for this piece. There are blues, pinks, purples, yellow and greens in many different shades.
It is a bit of a scramble, but up close it all seems to work (I have to work on the quality of my pictures). I was practicing some free motion quilting on this piece with the Terry Twist in all of the squares. A loop meander in the fairy block and straight line, back and forth motion in the small yellow border. I've really got to get into practicing my free motion. I see progress, but it wouldn't win any prizes...lol. Practice, practice and practice some more!!
Hope you all had a great day! Enjoy what is left of your evening.
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