Ready for Binding

Its been awhile since I have posed an update for this quilt. Its for my mother-in-law, for Christmas. It took me a little longer than it should have to get to this point. I think the quilting part scares me a little. I don't meander/stipple that often so when I decide to actually use it on a quilt, I sort of psych myself out and procrastinate (which I am really good at) :). I prepared it for binding last night and it just waits for me to start that process.

Sent Off

Its been a few days since my last post but I have good news, at least for the recipient of her mini.  I finally finished my friends mini and sent it off this morning. Hopefully she will get it before Thanksgiving hits. Don't want it to get caught up in all the other massive amounts of boxes and packages that start flying around this time of year. This is the front and back of the mini I sent her.

I really hope she enjoys it.

Mini Update

Ok, I'm a little behind in my posting. I normally try to post at least twice a week but you know, life happens and sometimes you don't get to do what you want. :) Anyway, here are the blocks to my friends mini, all 20 of them.

Here are a few of what the blocks look like.

And lastly this is what the completed top looks like.

Looky...Looky

Well its raining and supposed to rain most of the day today and I have been sort of non-productive on the quilting front the past few days...well...there are a few good reasons at least...doing my civic duty on Tuesday and of course work everyday. I was looking through pics on my old computer and found few goodies I hadn't seen in awhile:

 

This is a quilt I made for my daughter, for Christmas, back in 2004. It was quilted diagonally across the blocks but hadn't been bound yet. And...

This is a quilt I made for my brand new (at the time) nephew in November 2004. This one was outline quilted but of course, at the time of this picture, hadn't been bound yet. Didn't do terribly well as far as documenting is concerned. See these are the only two pictures I have of these quilts. No connecting block process and no finally finished pics. I have no idea why I didn't take a final picture of them... knowing me, I was trying to finish them on a deadline and was rushing.

Mini for a friend

A little while ago a friend saw this mini and asked if I could make her one for her knitting sanctuary. She had purchase some fabric that she liked, some time ago and wasn't quite sure what to do with it. Of course I told her I could. How could I turn her down? :) Here is the fabric she wants a similar mini made from:

I started on the blocks. I'll post them either tomorrow or Wednesday.