Coastal Bricks Complete!

I stayed up too late but the binding is done! Washer tomorrow and then off to her new home.
Cell phone pics below-







A little late for Finish It Up Friday but that just means that I'm ahead for next week, right?

Progress, Progress and More Progress

I made a lot of progress on projects this weekend. I finiahed a top, quilted three projects and loaded another on the frame. Be warned, phone pictures galore below.

First up, my completed top from a precut pack of squares of Wrenly. Or as I might name it, ChirpFest 2012.





I quilted sea weed on the second Going Coastal, I know I should branch out on the designs but when it works, it works. I pieced three pieces of flannel for the back of this one. The binding is ready for some hand stitching now.



The second bit of quilting was super custom and I can't show it for a little bit more.

And can I just say, hot damn, stippling is FAST. This is the flannel backing on one of those quilt tops. You know, the tops that find you because a friend of a family member hears you are quilting. It's been in a box for a few years and I decided it needed to move along. Of course it helped that I found the flannel for $2.50 a yard recently. And it might be a good one to try machine binding again.



If we hadn't been under constant threat of attack by the cats living in the house, I might have stippled this one to death as well.




According to my handy Excel spreadsheet, I am 56% done on this year's quilts. Nevermind that I haven't finished much.

Going Coastal Christmas

The giant quilt I made for my brother's family is getting lots of use already. There seems to be some confusion on sharing but these two seem to have come to an understanding.
Thanks to my mom, the binding was on Christmas Eve morning and we even had time to wash and dry just in time for present opening. Christmas was saved (actually saved about 42 times, so that's nice).
The pattern is a modified version of a pattern by Stitched in Color with a few extra rows at the bottom since I found it to be really wide but not long enough.  Easy peasy to adjust though.






I still really love that fabric and have a plan for another quilt here soon.

P.S. This was finished quilt number 17 for 2011.  I am a bit behind on blogging still though.

Going Coastal

IMG_3116.JPG, a photo by shanleytulip on Flickr.

I'm a little under the weather this weekend still (think 2 hour nap for every two hours upright) but this pattern has gone together really quickly. If you use this pattern, I recommend putting together a little fabric map like my last post, it was really helpful in keeping track. The blocks are large so it was easier not to put them up on the design wall. I'm as far as I can go without the last fabric I need. It's on order though so after my next nap, I'll pack it up and move on to something else. It's not like I don't have a few other projects in the works, right?

I love the dark gray as the grout for these tiles and may use it as the binding as well.

IMG_3116.JPG, a photo by shanleytulip on Flickr.

Back

Back, a photo by shanleytulip on Flickr.

The wedding was a success and I'm back home again. It rained this morning and then got muggy, still and hot but I started a plan for a new quilt. It's using a pattern from Stitched in Color and I decided to try the layout with small scraps since I don't have all the fabric and they are good sized squares.

If I can track down pictures of the wedding quilts, I'll post those as well.