This was the pile of bindings I showed earlier this week and I posted the quilts that were now quilted and waiting for the last step.
The Patterns by Jen 2021 got finished totally! Each block represented a fruit or vegetable and Jen sent out the patterns on the first of each month. I made doubles of some of them with backgrounds reversed so that I would have enough blocks for a decent size quilt for donation.
This quilt top plus backing and batting came to me in a plastic bag and I picked it up from the modern guild de-stash that the community quilt group held in the summer of 2020. There were 3 volunteers for that committee and each had their spare bedrooms full of fabrics, kits, and other supplies. Tables were set up in the front yard of a guild member and we all arrived in our cars, wearing our masks and self distancing while we rooted through all of the bins and tables. This top was already made, the backing and batting were cut to the right size so I needed to quilt and bind it. Done! #1
Number 2 was again a top plus backing fabric with enough for binding so this got completely finished.
The bag #3 contained yardage of the train fabric plus the red, a blue I didn't like and I added in the green to create this quilt top. I managed to get all the trains 'right' way up. The backing for the quilt was included as well... cute polar bears. Hopefully, there is a train fanatic who will get this quilt from our donations to Victim Services in our city.
The pink quilt was a bag of fabric strips, bits and pieces and one appliqued heart on a white background. I cut out and fused more hearts and stitched them all down... cut the rest of the fabrics into strips and while the crooked circles drive me crazy, that was the best use of the fabric with nothing wasted. So, number 4 finished.
In another bag was a couple of sets of strip pieced fabrics that were the width of the fabrics. I cut them in half and then added in a coordinating fabric to create these stripes. The first one is blue and that made a finished #5.
The same strip sets as above but I added green to them for added length and width and thus #6 was done.
A total of six quilts finished and all UFO's... even though one is only year old, the rest are well past 2 years and were heading to three years!
This quilt top has gone from the design wall stage to a finished quilt top and is now residing on a hanger, waiting for the quilting and binding. This is Favorite Things, another 3 yard quilt made with about 1.5 yards each instead of the one yard of each as called for in the pattern. A Fabric Cafe pattern.
I am determined to spend the last four days of this month (eeek? really? only 4 days till December?), getting one quilt top finished per day and that will make me feel good heading into December. Time to start decorating the house but am waiting patiently until next weekend. In the meantime, I have been going through a few cupboards and drawers in various location in our home, trying to declutter and get rid of items we no longer need or use. A very slow process but feels good when one of them is finished and we can see and find what we are looking for.
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