Friday Night Sewing... and more on Saturday too....

Last night I got a quilt top ready... The winter quilt I started this summer is now ready to quilt.  And I plan to put it on the longarm machine next!  One more practice run tonight, then onto a real quilt!

 Today I headed out to the fabric store and I picked up some backing fabric.  Since the fabric I had at home wasn't long enough...   I miscalculated how much I needed (ok I forgot to double the amount) and so then after getting home I realized that I really should have bought more... so I pieced in a small strip!

When adding the borders to the pillow tops, I did mitred borders for the first time.  Fairly simple, but time consuming, when needing to match stripes!

Quilt Top Ready

Quilt Backing

Pillow Tops

Friday night sewing at the beach....

During the day instead of having prep time, I was making blackberry jam for my Gram.  She is very spoiled - my mom went home with fresh blackberry pie and blackberry jam for her.  She is 95!

After dinner I started sewing while the kids went down to the beach with my mom and her husband... Looking out at the calm waters I couldn't resist the call of the ocean.  So I went out for a kayak!  Then I picked up my husband from the ferry.

Finally at 9pm I sat down to sew...

Winter Quilt
First I worked on my winter whirly gig quilt.  I had laid out the blocks previously and then stitched together to quilt top.  I can't proceed any further on this until I get more unwashed white cotton.

Sewn Together

Dresden Quilts 

Last night I set 4 of the circles into the outer border, squared up the blocks, then added the two borders.


This project was started as part of Lily's Quilts QAL in the spring... but life got in the way and I never finished them. Now I have the blocks ready to add the batting and backing. I will start assembling these blocks, but the quilting thread for these is at home in my sewing room. Because I'm not positive where the thread is, I'll need to wait until I get home to find it.

I need to head back to Lily's Quilts Blog and read the instructions!

Each of these blocks is about 31" square.

The 4 Blocks Ready for the Quilt.  This is a quilt as you go project, so I didn't piece them together

When I was making up the blocks, I forgot one at the cabin... but now all blocks are united and now I have an extra one.

I don't have enough of the background fabric to border it.  I will do a wider light border - probably the ligth blue, and then maybe a pieced border... I haven't decided....

Dresden - this one will be made into a separate quilt.

Grace's Quilt


Grace is still in the hospital and is gaining weight but has some struggles. She is in our continual prayers... The kids are continuing to work on their gift for her. They decided they would do the quilting too! So the progress is slow as Gramma (my mom) came for a 3 day visit. They didn't work on this last night, but are starting to work on it again today now that Gramma has left!