I had gotten it assembled, layered and half quilted before we left New York last Saturday. It is a requirement when I visit my MIL to bring a project to work on. Starting Monday (after hitting some of the after-Christmas sales) we were able to get in some quilt time. In the days following, I finished the quilting, cut and attached the binding and got up early and finished sewing it on this morning. Now that it's finished, its "given name" will be "All Spruced Up" after the backing fabric and purpose: to decorate my couch during the holidays!
This was a good project to make my way back into stitching my quilts. I did it in an allover swirl pattern and the busy fabrics hide a lot of sins. In fact, excuse any pins you see in the picture, those are spots I need to re-do some skipped stitches. And I really fudged up my binding corners but for a to-be-seen-once-a-year quilt, it will have to do! I am happy that at one point I did find my free motion groove and know what I need to do and focus on in the future. And I am grateful for all the tops I made this year because they will provide me with steady flow of practice tops for 2012!
So the finish is good news but before we left there was some Bad News: The Chronciles BOM will NOT be a flimsie for 2011 as hoped. I got word before we left from Homestead Hearth (the organizer of my BOM) that their supplier of the fabric for the BOM has to do a REPRINT of the red fabric used for the border blocks in order to fufill their order. They are going to be sending out some of the fabric to get the blocks started but won't get the rest to us until FEBRUARY!
Ooh boy! I was already worried about getting the blocks done (have I mentioned that it is sixty-eight blocks?!?). On the other hand, this means I can A) Take my time and work on getting the center constructed and B) get maybe a little less than half the blocks done and then finish the rest when the rest of the fabric gets in. But I am disappointed in not having this flimsy in the can for this year and not meeting my BOM goal for the year either.
We will be leaving NC early Friday morning so expect to be back in New York by that afternoon. My hope is to get a "Year In Review" post up before we ring in 2012. I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday and are looking forward to celebrating the New Year!
2 comments:
Looks GREAT from here! ;-) have a safe trip back to NY!
Good job getting id DONE - even with a few missed stitches. It's very pretty - nice soft colors. I can imagine there were some "issues" with those bias seams having to match up perfectly. 8-))
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