Another Purdue Wall Hanging & Another Bag

Here's my design wall tonight:



I got this sewn together on Saturday and did the quilting this morning. I still have to hand stitch the binding, but it should be ready to take to Julie's on Thursday, to give to Jerri.

This afternoon I made another Charm Party bag. This one is for a co-worker to give to her mom for Christmas. It's all done also, so I think this was a pretty productive weekend.




I also made 2 batches of Biscotti, which was a first for me and I think it turned out wonderful. I'm sending some to Jeff and giving some as christmas gifts. I coated about 12 dozen pretzels with chocolate yesterday also. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

If you can stand one more photo..

Here's a much better one of the Purdue Quilt:



And the back:

I did something this morning that I hardly ever do....I stopped at 2 garage sales. I spent a whopping $5.50 and probably the best deal was the 4 FQs in a bundle for $2. I'm planning to use them for a mystery quilt that Becca is hosting. The fabrics on the left were in a bin marked 10 pieces for $1. The stencil and the binding chart were $1 each. I love a bargain!!


Sue came to quilt this afternoon and here she is all done:




Quite a nice job, Sue!!

Woo-Hoo, It's Friday!

This has been a really long week for me.
The company I work for let 2 people go this week due to the economy. One was from my department and that means we are working hard at trying to keep up. The other was from a department that we fill in for, so that makes it doubly stressful.
I sure hope things turn around soon!

Last night I quilted the Purdue wall hanging and as you can see, I decided to do rays from the gold block. They are certainly not equally spaced, but from a galloping horse, it looks great. I'll try to take another photo in some natural light, as my sewing room always give things an amber tint.



I used Superior Monopoly on top and a prewound cream in the bobbin, Warm & Natural batting. I thought very briefly about doing some of my newly learned feathers in the outer border, but decided that would make it look a little too formal. The piecing design and the quilting in the center are both so angular that I thought beadboard would work for the border and I like it!

Here's the latest from my feather class, which I did before the Purdue wall hanging:

Some Catching Up!

This is what I've been doing for the past couple days:

Sue's sampler quilt that I finished on Sunday. It has Quilters Dream Request batting, which I usually don't like, but it worked out pretty well this time. The thread is PermaCore Gray, (I'm not exactly sure of the color) and I use prewound Masterpiece in the bobbin.



The back is a solid black, though it sure doesn't lookl like it in the bright sunlight, it really shows the Circle Lord Fan quilting well.



Purdue wall hanging progress:


I was going to add pieced borders to this one, but I may stop here, quilt and bind it and call it done.

Here's my practice for my feathers class:

My Corner Purdue Quilt

This one is for Jerri to donate to an auction and I'm so happy to be able to make it for her.

Here's where it started:

Then it was in strips:


The strips sewn together and now it's starting to look like a state:


I tried to purchase the pattern from Quiltmakers in Fishers, but she didn't have any, even though she had the sample quilt still hanging in the shop. That's just strange to me??? It would be like me having quilting samples for my customers to look at and then saying to them, I can't do that kind of quilting.....

So, I bought the pattern for another Indiana school, just to get the correct shape and redrew the grid for Purdue.

I have a customer quilt to do tonight and tomorrow, but hope to get back to this one by Sunday.