It's Finished!!

**Warning, this is a photo filled post**  I am so excited to have this quilt finished.  This was the 2012-2013 Fat Quarter Shop Mystery Block of the Month using Vintage Modern by Bonnie & Camille.  I have spent the last week, off and on, hand stitching the binding down.  I love the look of hand sewn binding and since this quilt is staying in my house (that's right, I made myself a quilt!) I had to hand sew the binding down.  The tag is made and will be sewn on this afternoon. 

 

I am linking up with Fabric Tuesday, Show and Tell Tuesday, Finish it Friday and Can I Get a Whoop Whoop?

Quilter

I have admired the longarm work at my local quilt shop and just recently got the names of the long arm quilters.  I have used one woman in the past and she has been great, but she is a good 45 minutes away.  With everything that is going on in my life with work, the house, my kids and my Dad, I needed to find someone closer.  I simply don't have the time to spend 1.5 hours in the car to drop a quilt off and another 1.5 hours to go pick it up.  One of the names from my local quilt shop is just 15 minutes from my house!

I met with her today and dropped off my Mystery Block of the Month quilt which should be back in my hands in about 3 weeks.  So excited!  I normally love quilting my own quilts, but if I am going to find balance in my life right now, quilting is the one thing that I can take off my list and give to someone else.  This allows me time to sew and piece my quilts.  I will still quilt the baby ones and other small quilts, but the big ones are heading off to the new to me long arm quilter.  Her studio is amazing and she's a Julie so she has to be wonderful!

I will post photos when I get it back!

2012-2013 Mystery Block of the Month

To say I am excited about this finish is an understatement.  From the minute I found out that the 2012-2013 Mystery Block of the Month from www.fatquartershop.com was going to use Vintage Modern by Bonnie and Camille I couldn't wait to begin.  I finished the quilt up last night and took the photos this morning. 

 

 

Two of my favorite blocks in the quilt.  I love, love, love the grey and red one!

 

I purchased a different fabric for the backing than the one that was offered in the program.  The grey pebble fabric in the photo above will be the backing.  I am making a phone call to a new (to me) long arm quilter who is much much closer to my house to have this one quilted.  I have been quilting my own quilts for the last 3 years and decided it was time to have one quilted by someone else.  The best thing is that this is mine, all mine.  I have never made a quilt for me, they always go to someone else.

 

I am linking up with Fabric Tuesday, Show and Tell Tuesday and Finish it Up Friday.



Friday Finishes

I finished up another row of the 2012-2013 block of the month through Fatquartershop.com. I'm excited for the remaining three blocks and I plan on making the borders and binding this weekend.

 

The block below had to be made and remade twice...I sewed the grey flying geese sections incorrectly...as shown below, the fabric needed to be sewn directionally.  All us well now :)

 



 

After I took the beautiful snow pictures, I realized my last row had all the geese flying south...

 

so after some seam ripping I have fixed the row so half my geese are flying north and half my geese are flying south.

My girls and I played with scrapbook paper, glitter and mod podge to make initial letters for their bedroom doors. They will be surprised when they get home to see the letters hanging on their doors. I spray glued some scraps of batting to the backs to eliminate clinkin when doors are closed :)

 

Happy Friday!!!!

I am linking up with Finish It Friday.

Finally! Some sharing

I have two quilts to blog about that were gifts, one has been delivered and the other should be on its way any day...more posts to come. We spent New Years with my in-laws and I used that time to cut and sew blocks for the 2012-2013 Fat Quarter Shop Mystery Block of the Month (have you seen the 2013-2014? Love it). I was also able to cut out the remaining sashing that I had yet to work on. I have to finish up the flying geese for row number two and then I will have half a quilt :). Without further ado here are photos of blocks 4, 5, 6, and 7 ( in no particular order and sorry for the crummy iPad photos...I will update with better ones later).

I am linking up with Fabric Tuesday over at Quilt Story.

Finish it Up Friday

Finally!!!! Some sewing machine time! Block #4 of the fatquartershop.com 2012-2013 mystery block of the month.

Three finishes this week!

First, I quilted and bound two quilts that are going to their new owners this week. I have been machine binding recently and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed hand binding both of the quilts. They are washed and all crinkly! I also pieced some flying geese and put the first row of the 2012-2013 mystery block of the month quilt together.

 

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Block #3

Vintage Modern Block #2 is Complete

Friday finishes

Block #1 is finally pieced!