Binding Week

Mostly bindings happening here this week. Getting all those PhD's finished at the retreat gave me the motivation to move some "quilted and waiting on bindings" to the finished pile.

I worked on the hand stitching of this one at the retreat. It's now done and checked off my UFO list.

This one is the twin to one that I assembled at the retreat. I applied and hand stitched the binding this week. It just needs a label before it is gifted.

This one is a Quilts For Kids and the strips were 3.5" and there were only 17 or 18 strips, which makes it within the 40-50" requirements for our local Quilts for Kids Chapter. They require stitching the binding on the machine, so I stitched it with a zig-zag for durability.

This is a little NICU quilt for Old Tippe Quilt Guild and it's 30" square. I'm hand stitching it, but I may give someone a call to see if that's ok.

 Here is another Quilts For Kids strip quilt that Karen and I assembled at guild Wednesday evening.

That's all so far. I'll be back working on Mabel tomorrow morning.
Tonight I'm going on a bus with my company to the Indianapolis Indians game. Should be a fun night!

Stashbusting 2011 - #40

Fabric Added this week - 0 yards
Fabric Added Year to Date - 99.625 yards

Fabric Used this week - 8.25 yards
Fabric Used Year to Date - 190.75 yards

YEAR TO DATE STASH USED: 91.175 yards

It was a good week with some finishes, a king size finished with binding and pillowcases, and a queen size top and a lap quilt top finished.

Yesterday at my visit to quilt camp, I completed these to make some pillows for Calise's room. The leaves were signed by friends and family at the baby shower.


I also assembled the leftover blocks from Jeff and Danés quilt into this lap quilt.



And made the scrappy red binding for it:



Here's a corner of the queen size:

Design Wall Monday

It looks a bit like last Monday, except the blocks and sashing have been stitched into rows. My goal is to finish this one this week, quilting, binding and all.
Check out the other design walls at JudyL's blog.

I hand stitched the binding on a quilt in the car this weekend and it feels good to get that one finished.

Are You Sick of my Bindings Yet?

Saturday, at our guild sewing day, I stitched the binding on Vicci's block of the month quilt, so it's ready for the hand stitching. One more quilt for Vicci, after this one, and then hers will be finished.



I changed direction yesterday and quilted this little snowman panel for a christmas throw gift and started stitching the binding last night.