Thread Tales From A Scrappy Quilter

Gosh it's hard to catch up sometimes when you take a few days off.   October finished with a birthday party for Mickey, Halloween preparations, Houston International Quilt Festival, my birthday plus the countless day to day events that occur.   I've been quilting, I just have not had a chance to post.   Also I lost some of my photos somehow.  Here's my attempt to catch up:   One of the classes I took at Quilt Festival.   Silk fabric, silk batting and silk thread stitched on longarm.   Then we "painted" with dye.   We can now use this fabric to make something like a notebook cover.   One of my favorite classes there this year.   Mickey's 14th! Did I even post the #2 Parasol Ladies as finished?   I don't think so.   Some of my Desert Sky blocks.   One of the prettier T-Shirt Quilts.  Very colorful!   A lot of people just make up their T-...

Quilt loaded and top border stitched out.   I'm quilting very similar to the other one so that the girls each have similar quilts. Also, hubby went to his high school reunion this weekend and also visited with  his folks in NJ.  He asked if he could take Quilt #1 to show his mom in person the quilt.   I'm so glad he thought of that.   And here are his mom and dad showing off the quilt!     I got in a great sew-in day on Friday working to work on my Bali Wedding Star but nothing to show in pictures.   Also on the frame this week were  T-shirt quilts for customers but  forgot to take pics of one of them.  One was a huge 42 piece about 114" long.         Do you ever have to rip out stitches?   I had the thread break just as I started on this quilt, these rubbery/plastic brushes (some are sold as pet brushes) make quick work of pulling the snipped threads...

I finished the binding!  Two steps left, I have not made a label and it has not been washed yet.  Other than that, completely finished.   I suppose this is the oldest UFO I have ever completed.  MIL is delighted with the finish - yeah!  Now to work on finding time to complete Quilt #2.                          

I'm so excited, maybe more than my MIL for her almost 50 year UFO to become a finished product.   I finally decided to just quilt it like I would like to quilt it, not like what may have been traditional for 1960....   Can't wait to get started on the binding and get this piece washed and dried to see how it responds.   One down, one more to go and then 8 more blocks for sometime in the future...