Hand Binding to do!, Valentine's Day, and a Block of the Month

I finished quilting this little baby quilt yesterday and the binding is ready to hand stitch. Maybe tonight watching the olympics.



My valentine got me some over the knee socks and they sure are cozy! I wear a short nightgown most nights and he thinks my legs look cold. Thanks Honey!!! I got him a gift card for Culver's because he has a Butterburger every Saturday and Sunday for lunch.



A local Quilt shop is hosting a 1930's Block of the Month and today I stitched my January and February blocks. If you make a miniature block, your name goes into the drawing an extra time, so I made those also. They will make a cute doll or baby quilt.



Here's a Block of the Month Pet Peeve of mine:
This has happened to me before at another LQS. The salvage and fold edges are both on the lines of the mat. Just look at the waste on both sides. Of course, if I didn't care that the cuts were on-grain it wouldn't matter, but I usually take pride in making my cuts straight across the grain of the fabric. I did have plenty of fabric for these and they turned out very nice, so I guess I'll quit belly-aching.

Another binding Finished!

Wednesday evening I finished the binding on this quilt and I did a little quilting on Vicci's quilt.

I also pulled some fabrics for a maybe project for tomorrows guild sewing day.

More Bindings

I finished the binding on Kay's quilt



and started on Vicci's Rossville Quilts BOM last night



Wrote some Christmas cards and loaded a quilt.

Idle Hands? Not here!

I have been working on customer bindings. This one's finished:



This one is about half done.



I do love to hand stitch bindings. I find it so very relaxing and I can even keep an eye on what's on television. The next three quilts scheduled to be quilted, also have the bindings to be done. That's lots of relaxing and also lots of $$$$.

Backings and Bindings

Yesterday I spent a good part of the day piecing backings and making bindings.

I pieced a backing for the Cocacola quilt, but didn't get a picture of it before I hung it up, so that will have to come later. I also pieced a backing for a 57" square UFO using John Flynn's Diagonal Pieced backing method.

I took some pictures while I was making this, not knowing there were pictures on John's site. Oh well, they are on Webshots anyway.

I made bias bindings, just cut from strips, for my black and white March Challenge quilt because I wanted the diagonal effect. I made continuous bias binding for Andrew's Funky Monkey because I had a large enough square and I wanted the diagonal effect on that one also. I made plain binding for the cocacola quilt and the Scrappy Squares (oops, didn't get a picture of this one).