Quiltathon

This weekend has been designated as a Quiltathon Weekend by JudyL. I did my best to comply by spending most of the day yesterday at Rita's house. She is having a sew-in weekend that started on Friday, and everyone else was spending the nights. I came home a little after 11pm last night because I need to do some quilting today. My accomplishments yesterday include:
1. Rossville Quilts BOM - due this coming Wednesday.


2. JudyL's Star BOM #3 - Yep, I'm a bit behind and I didn't take the Block #4 instructions, or I would have done that one also. Oh, and I know the pinwheels are going the wrong way, but as I've said before, "It stays as it lays!"


3. I sewed the individual rows together on my Courthouse stars.


4. Then, I caught the "Square Dance" bug from Mona, along with Rita and Colleen. She brought this cute Finding Nemo Square dance quilt and told us how she did it.


Well, I had taken some novelty halloween fabrics to do something with and this was just the ticket. Here's my Halloween Dance complete with a border.



Here is our hostess with her almost finished fall colors Square dance.


The rest of the sewing group includes Mona, Dottie, Ruth Ann and Colleen.




To see more photos of our day click here.

Quiltathon - Day 1 Afternoon

Well, I guess I'm on track, but I must admit that I feel like taking a nap. I got up bright and early and loaded the colorful block swap leftover blocks quilt. Got a little sidetracked looking for a piece of batting and ended up measuring and putting a label on most of the batting pieces. What do you do with leftover batting pieces? I thought about offering them on Freecycle(easy)or cutting them up to consistent sizes and selling, say 72 of them in a package on Ebay (a bit of work, but a little money for my time).

An allover meander and only 14 minutes of stitching time and that one was quilted.
I used a nursery print for the back and I'll probably donate this one to Project Linus.



Then, I loaded the bowtie table topper and had to wait a while for it to speak to me. I had no idea how to quilt it. While I waited Debbie stopped by to get some scrap batting to make a seatbelt cushion/cover, for those nasty seatbelts that seem to dig into our necks. While we were talking about how to make one, I suggested just a piece of prequilted fabric with some bias tape on the edges and some velcro. She left for Joanns and I didn't get to unload even a 12" square of batting.

At noon it was Butterburger time and then off to a cute little girl's birthday party. I didn't stay long, but what a party they were having. There was a big water slide/playhouse thing, slip and slides, games, lots of food, family and friends to celebrate Elly's 1st Birthday.

Back to the Quiltathon....I stippled in the background and did a little ribbon thing in the 1/2" sashing. I think I might hang this on the wall rather then put it on a table. I rather like the way it turned out.