sao’s QUILTY STUFF THIS WEEK
Posted By drsao on January 25, 2009
What quilty stuff has sao been doing this week?
I finished my quilt top for IF I WERE A FLOWER CHALLENGE QUILT for the Country Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild – and I had so much fun doing it. I will post a picture later when it is quilted, bound, and the quilt has been REVEALED. Sara is going to quilt it for me – and I have made my first quilt label to put on it. It is SO HARD not to put a picture up!
OK – so I also finished a UFO quilt top – I called it LOST ON THE ROAD AGAIN -it is my first heartstring quilt inspired by Sheddy and Bonnie K. Hunter. It really is a good feeling to get an UFO closer to becoming a FFO (Finally Finished Object.)
Lost On the Road Again Top
Brown and Teal Back with Daisy May Posing on it
Our FIRST Country Piecemaker’s BOM assignment was to make an 8 1/2 x 20 1/2 block using yo yos – great idea Catherine and Sandie. Here is my January homework….. 🙂 I won’t be at the February guild meeting so I am SHARING MY BLOCK here. It is my CHRISTMAS COUNTRY CAT – in case you didn’t recognize it. She is wearing a little necklace YO YO with a cute heart button in the middle (I got the button at Quilter’s Corner in Midlothian, VA!)
Christmas Country Cat in the Flower Garden
sao's BROWN BAG WINDMILL BLOCK
sao's Fabric for Brown Bag Block Exchange
In an earnest attempt to work on my UFO’s I also started putting together my paper pieced BABY HEARTSTRING QUILT. Here is what I have done so far.
sao's BABY HEARTSTRING QUILT
I also worked on Bonnie K. Hunter’s DOUBLE DELIGHT MYSTERY QUILT and the Fabricaholics January 24th MYSTERY QUILT – pictures later.
The BIG TA DA of the week was getting two quilt tops back from Valerie at A NEEDLE RUNS THROUGH IT…..love them! TWO MORE UFO’S COMING DOWN THE LINE!
Now comes my favorite part of making a quilt – the binding……NOT TRUE. I stick myself…….I bleed and I must admit that I complain…….
I wear bandaids, three thimbles and I confess that I complain. HOWEVER, I have decided that I am going to TURN OVER A NEW LEAF……as of RIGHT NOW I WILL START PRETENDING to like putting the binding on quilts. Happy thoughts lead to happy outcomes……happy thoughts lead to happy outcomes…..happy thoughts lead to happy outcomes. 🙂
“I am LOOKING FORWARD TO MAKING AND SEWING ON THE BINDING for my two latest quilts….TA DA.” The first one is a Fabricaholics Anonymous New Year’s Eve 2009 Mystery designed by Ann Smith!
sao's 2008 Ann Smith's FABRICAHOLICS NYE Mystery
sao's OLD VA ROAD II
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