Bouncing Around

I was already to quilt Smith Mountain this morning, but didn't have any of the caramel colored thread I like to use on scrap quilts because it blends so well with most things. 

So while waiting for everyone to get up and around I pondered the backing for Sydney's teal crumbs.  It is amazing how skinny my stash is getting.  Definitely time to do a little shopping!  Sydney helped me decide on this collection of black prints which I cut in 10.5 inch squares. I love using things up.  So much more satisfying than going to the store and buying a big hunk of generic yardage in just the right color. 

Orca Bay is patiently waiting for binding. Maybe teal?

Still haven't made the binding for the Christmas quilt either. I am thinking of the same red from the inner border. 
Now the hard part -- deciding what to work on!  Bonnie is on with quilt cam, so I'll find something I can do with her. 

Out of Harms Way

 Given the recent peril of Flamingo Bay, I decided that the quilt on the frame needed to get done soon.  The quilting in the center is just  regular old meander.  The middle border has ribbon candy, and the outer border is an attempt at feathers.  I am thinking red binding and I will call this one done. 

The back is an assortment of 10 inch squares that finished off most of the Christmas Stash. 

Odds and Ends

The Wonky Xmas Logs have been a miss-mash from start to finish.  Not to change anything at the end, I got creative on the back.  Everything that was remotely holiday looking got pulled out and thrown into a pile.  Though I thought about just sewing it all together randomly, I decided instead to cut everything into 10 inch squares.  As soon as those are sewn together, there will be another quilt ready for the frame.  The t-shirt quilt is there now, I am sewing a row or two when I get up or need a break. 

Procrastination

It is a certain stage of desperate avoidance that has me sewing borders instead of putting blocks together.  All the rows got picked up and pinned together and Thursday, which is housecleaning day.  They are happily hanging by the machine now, wanting to be sewn together.  I'm not sure why I am finding it so tedious, but I was in search of something else.  Anything else. 

So here I am putting the borders on the Wonky Christmas quilt.  Borders, my nemesis.  Who would have thought?

Design Wall Monday July 2, 2012

I am on a quest to clear out all the moldy oldies.  Experiments in bags, block collections in corners, PIGs, WIPs, UFOs and otherwise.  These wonky log cabins started as a bin of scraps gifted to me by a neighbor who was moving away.  I had planned on turning it into a quilt top and giving it to them before they left, but here they are, several years later, still waiting to be finished.  I sewed up all that were in progress, and though I have no idea what I was thinking when I made them, it looks like I need four more of each color to call it a quilt.