Summer Challenge -- Two Colour Quilt

A local quilt shop is having a summer quilt challenge....  I thought in June I'd have more time to get it done, so I purchased my fabric to enter... a FQ from the grab bag... I ended up with brown!  ACK!  What was I going to do... so I decided to make a scrap quilt from my browns and then I needed to add another colour... but what?  So I had lots of this finger painted fabric in green.... so I planned to do a rail fence pattern with 5 strips per block and 16 blocks total... While away last week I cut out my strips, then made the 16 blocks.... and two days ago I assembled the top with some green sashing...  But it looked a little plain, so I added some appliquéd geckos.  They are done on the embroidery machine thanks to Embird (and a picture of a gecko!)....Yesterday I started quilting it on the longarm, and finished it this morning.  This afternoon and evening I applied the binding.

I'm scared about entering it... but as my Gram would have said "A blind man would love to see it"...  Tomorrow morning I will drop it off, a day "early"!  OK I don't have the chance of handing it in on the due date - I'm at the highland games!

Finishing some projects

I am out of town with my kids at Piping Hot Summer Drummer.  My girls have been dancing and my son has been piping.

I brought along a few projects that needed finishing up....
This is the the top I finished two weeks ago that i didn't get a photo of...

Testing from my new tablet

Some recent finished projects

3rd Quarter Goals

Realistically I won't get much of these done... I'm out of town most of the next 2 months....

Projects I hope to complete this Quarter

• Green & Brown Challenge Quilt
  Piece, Quilt, Bind
• Air plane Donation Quilts (x1)
  needs binding
• New York Beauty Top
  finish blocks, set blocks, back, quilt   & binding
• Sew Happy Geek QAL Quilt
  prep quilt  & binding
• UFO #5 Quilts (x1)
  apply binding
• My step-fathers Birthday Quilt
  need to make black bias tape, apply, quilt  & binding
• My Stars on the Mountain Quilt
  finish top, backing, quilting  & binding
• Sewing machine Cover
  finish bind, add ties
• Garment Sewing UFOs - Top for me,  skirt for my oldest daughter
  Various stages
• Dresden Quilt
  Finish quilting 2 of 4 blocks, sew together & bind
• Dresden Table Topper
  add borders, backing, quilting & binding

Some BOM that I will continue on

• Hello Sun Quilt A Long by April Mae Designs
• Craftsy BOM 
• Just Takes 2 QAL
• Wonky Logcabins BOM

2nd Quarter Finish Along ....

So how did I do? Not was well as I'd hoped, but got 4 UFOs done!

• Air plane Donation Quilts  - 1 Quilt done and donated to guild
• UFO #5 Quilts - 1 Quilt done and given as gift
• Garment Sewing UFOs - top for my youngest, tunic for my youngest -- Sorry no photos of these until Saturday as the garments are at home, and I'm on the island....