Four flimsy finishes for Friday

My friend A. and I started off the week 

sewing a charity blanket top together

and both of us just kept going.

We were aiming for four 60 by 80 inch tops

to make tied blankets for refugees who have recently moved here.

A. cut a stash of oldies but goodies from her mother-in-law

into 3 inch strips to make this jellyroll race quilt.

 I finished the borders of my triangle quilt.

The large HST finish at 6 inches.

I used up a stash of blue to make this zipper style top.

And both of us made this bar quilt from a bunch of calicos.

Now they're ready for a group tieing day early in the new year.

I'm linking up with other Friday finishers at

Crazy Mom Quilts

and Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Early Christmas present

In September, I joined Quilt Pixie's scrap swap. The rules were simple -- she assigned us a partner and we swapped as many scraps as would fit into a large ziploc bag. Today I got my package from Belinda at Brown Dirt Cottage. Here's a picture of the package with the card and a scrappy potholder. She wa very generous -- a big pile of selveges for my selvege collection, lots of scraps and fat quarter-ish pieces, and even some Christmas yardage. I'm going to have fun with this infusion of new scraps and fabrics into my collection. Thanks so much, Belinda, and thanks Pixie, for the great idea.

And that navy blob on the table behind the fabric? That's a double quilt back from the longarmer, waiting for its binding. If you want a sneak peak, take a look at it in its fungly state. It looks a lot better now, with a set of navy borders and the meander quilting in pumpkin. I showed it to a friend, who fell in love with it, and so instead of this being a donation quilt, I made it double-sized and got it quilted. It's been waiting for binding for two weeks because I was writing term papers, but I handed in my last one yesterday so I sewed the binding strips together today and I hope to get it on the quilt soon.