Almost, but not quite!

I have one more sheep to applique! I am too tired to make a good job of the last one, so will leave it for tonight. I did get the binding all stitched & a bunch more threads finished off, so I didn't do too badly!

Wow 11 appliques all sewn and one poor set of sheep full of pins. Oh well, not for much longer. I should be able to finish after work tomorrow, although there are a bunch of threads to finish off still, so maybe by Tuesday night? Then, the big question. What do I do next? Our youngest daughter is pushing for a "Day & Night" table runner, but I'm not sure if I am in the right frame of mind for that. I am thinking of something a bit more fun than that. Of course, I still have to sew my two charity quilt squares together & do my block of the month, so I will have time to decide, while I work on those this week. This is also my week for my Aclasta infusion for my osteoporosis, so I might not get much of a start on anything. Enjoy whatever you are working on!

Better Late than Never?

I'm late & I am sorry. I forgot it was a long weekend & I have been busy with non-quilting things. I finished the quilting on my rail fence quilt and got the front of the binding machine sewn on and pinned it to the back. I promised interesting? things and here goes!

Knitting Sheep from Timeless Treasures Fabrics, Inc. Now for some close-ups:

In case you missed me talking about this quilt, it is for my sister. All the prints on the front of it represent parts of her life. The big thing I missed was her knitting. I found these knitting sheep and had to add them. They are going to be appliqued across the top of the back of the quilt, up-side-down, so that when the quilt is on a bed and gets turned down, the sheep (3 repeats of 4 sheep,)all 12 of them, will be right-side-up across the top. I think my sister will get a laugh out of them! For a number of years we lived on a farm and raised sheep, so these cover that part of her life as well as her knitting. I even found clip art of a rail fence, so thought that it was appropriate to add to the label. Sorry, I still haven't figured out how to change a picture from landscape to vertical without making it smaller, so here is my label, sideways.

I did end up working five days last week and will probably do the same this week, so it cut into my sewing time. Il Divo at the Air Canada Centre, in Toronto, were great Saturday night! My two main gardens acquired a bunch more perennials on Sunday. I had hoped to have the binding completely sewn on rather than the back pinned. This week my aim is to do the hand sewing on the binding and applique all the sheep on as well as finishing off a bunch more threads. Gee, that would mean the the quilt would be finished! All I am saying is that I will try! Happy quilting!

63 Blocks Quilted

I have all 63 blocks in my rail fence quilted!!! I also have about a quarter of the wrong side threads finished off. I am very happy with my progress. I have to finish off the rest of the threads and quilt the outer two borders and the quilting will be done.

I know you can't tell it is quilted. How about this?

Too bad the basting stitches show up better than the quilting. Oh well! As you can tell, I am not very good at photography. After I get the quilting finished and bind it, I am going to applique a bunch of knitting sheep to the top edge of the back, up-side-down, so when the top edge gets turned down, they will be right-side-up. What are knitting sheep? You will just have to wait and see! I have already made the label. I found a real rail fence in the clip art on my computer so I am using that. Again I am making you wait to see it. In this case because it is getting late, so I am not taking the time for another picture. It is back to work for me tomorrow, so I need to get to bed. The fresh air I got today, cutting all the grass, tired me out. My husband was going to do it when he got home from golf, but I knew he wanted to catch the end of the British soccer, so I went ahead and did it. Unfortunately, soccer didn't work out, as we got a call from his sister, that she had been admitted to the hospital with breathing problems. At 86 that is not joke, so we ran up there and spent some time with her. When I think about it, I am surprised that I did get the blocks all quilted! I am going to try to be working on the knitting sheep by this time next week, so I can show them off! Happy quilting!

I'm Doing It!

Finally, I have started quilting my rail fence quilt! I have done a line of quilting 1/4 inch off the seams joining all of the blocks. Then I am doing 1/4 inch off the edge of the wide strips in each square. I only have a few of those done, but I am working on it.

Why am I so proud of myself? I was busy all week and only managed to sew Saturday evening and part of today, so I am amazed that I got this much done. My husband is down in Toronto right now picking up our grandson from England, who is over to meet up with his cousin and go on a tour of the USA. I think he will only be with us for a few days. As a result I am posting my blog a little earlier than usual. What else did I do this week? I finally found fabric for my "Itty Bitty Pinwheel" wall hanging that I have been wanting to do for almost a year.

It is going to be very bright! I also got a few more oranges for what was supposed to be an all orange wall hanging. It now has a couple of browns in it, but still a lot of oranges.

I am going to have lots of fun sewing this summer with bright fabrics like these! My plan for the week is to keep going on my rail fence quilt. I am only working three days this week, so I should have a lot done by next Sunday night. Please send me nasty comments if I don't! After all that is the whole reason for this blog - to keep me on track and sewing like crazy! I hope you get lots done too! Have a good week!