Piles of finishes... and a few not yet there

I like the idea of finishing-- a story, an assignment, or a quilt. This one hasn't been a long work in progress, but I got the binding on it this week. I didn't have enough of the yellow from the sashing for the binding, so I was stalled for a bit until my ever wise mother suggested a candy-stripe binding.

 It works because the orange and aqua and white play nicely with the back too

I also washed this quilt and the raw edges yield two fist-fulls of threads. But now it's ready and waiting for the right owner.....

Meanwhile, I "enhanced the stash" during a trip to a shop to buy thread. These are three Sevenberry prints from their Child's play marching band line....and they were a good price. So I bought two metres because...

lately I've been making lots of baby quilts for the local children's hospital, mostly from scraps. Here's the stack that I'm going to pass on to a fellow guild member who will take them to the hospital.

I think it's an impressive stack of five quilts and blankets, including this one that I just washed and now looks great....

but then when I tidied up the sewing room I started piling up the tops needing quilting. looks impressive, right? or maybe a bit scary.... how does this get so out of hand? To be fair, only one of these is a bed-sized quilt, two are table runners, one is a word quilt meant for the wall and a couple are throw-sized...

but still, it's one impressive pile. got to get to it......soon!