Double Friday finish!

At a retreat last weekend, I  worked on two string quilts.

I squared off and bound the top left one

and quilted and bound the bottom one.

These are two of four I've put together for a local charity,

using 6 by 12 inch string blocks from my local quilting friends.

My guild friend Bonnie long armed the yellow and orange one

in an edge to edge pattern,

more visible if you double click the close-up below.

I packed up my Juki for the retreat, and powered through the blue quilt,

using my walking foot for straight-line stitching on either side of the vertical seams.

I freemotioned designs in each column,

inspired by motifs in Christina Cameli's 

First Steps to Free Motion Quilting.

Christina's blog tutorial improved my fmq skills, 

and her book is fabulous.

Yesterday I took the three finished quilts out for a photo shoot on the lawn.

(The fourth is pieced, but not yet quilted.)

We're still snow-free in Winnipeg, although snow is sure to come soon.

Here you can see that each quilt has a slightly different colourway:

From top: yellow/orange; blue/red; pink/purple.

I'm linking up with Sarah and Amanda.