Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Productive Weekend of Quilting

This weekend was so productive it isn't even funny. Let me preface my quilting progress, with the fact that I had a marathon cleaning session at my home Sat. morning and afternoon, including completely pulling everything out, dusting, sweeping, vacuuming, organizing, and putting all the toys away. I didn't start quilting until after supper Sat. night.
Friday night while Paul was up watching some gold show I pulled together this baby quilt top. It's not great, but it's done and will make some baby happy. I also pulled backing and batting and it was ready to quilt.
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Sat. night I started with this one and got it quilted. I used a pink/brown King tut.
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I did loops for the quilting. My goal for the month was just to make the top, so having it finished is a big bonus!
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Then I quilted this one with a meander. I was able to trim both quilts up and get the binding on the top of both of them Saturday night. Woohoo! I finished the binding at work today during breaks.
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Sunday after I went to mass and took the kids to town for pictures, I came home and quilted this one. It's an older quilt top I had done as a sample.
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Mikaela insisted on helping with the photography and playing on this one. She's claimed it as her favorite.
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Then I really quickly quilted up this one with a really tight meander to see if I could do it. It turned out well. I loaded the wolf wall hanging and started quilting it. It's slow going because I am doing more of a thread painting on it and with all the layers its breaking thread a lot. I quit for the night, just before the power went out.
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My favorite part of the weekend was realizing my cutting table is amazing! I was able to pull it up and put my big mat on to trim up these quilts. I usually use just the top, because it takes up so much room, but wow, I'm in love with the big surface, at the right height.
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The kids had a great weekend. We went to Wal-mart and daddy let Mikaela ride on a couple rides.
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She loved them! It's a special treat, so she was super excited. Plus she got funfetti cupcake mix, pure heaven in her eyes.
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Mathew just hung out with his book. He's getting the top 4 teeth in, so just a bit crabby, compared to his normal happy self.
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Mikaela was photo bombing my quilts while I was trying to take pictures.
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Mathew just practiced his posing.
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But then Mikaela decided to help him. He's so happy. He just turned 10 months last weekend.
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2 comments:

Sara said...

You were not kidding about it being a productive weekend. Your kids are so cute and just growing so fast.

Maybe next weekend I'll get a little sewing done again.

Heidi [Banks of Frog Creek] said...

Congrats on the productive weekend! Love all your quilts. Your kiddos are so cute :)