Quilt visit

Earlier this week I had a chance to visit one of my quilts in its new home.

I made this raw edge ticker tape quilt with my quilt guild several years back.

I was curious how it would stand up to use and repeated washing.

I'm happy to report it has held up well.

Here's the back, which is just as much fun as the front.

I supplied the backing and batting,

and my friends sewed on a variety of little scraps.

Here's a close-up of the frayed edges.

And here you can see the quilting lines in the back.

The owner says this is her nap blanket

and she likes the texture on the front.

Glad to know its loved and useful.

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!