Made it in 6 Hours Flat

Here is a baby quilt I made in 6 hours - yup from start to finish. I even set a timer to see if it would be finished in that time. Took about 2 hours to find the fabric and make the blocks. One hour was to make the sandwich of the back and batting, and three hours to do the assembly and quilting, border and binding. I'm liking this quilt as you go method!! This will work great for making charity quilts. My pattern is one block with the units 6 " square. Came out to 36" square. The center block is personalized with the baby's name. See second photo. I'm happy to report that I only used material from my stash - so there go 2 1/2 yards to a new home!





Organizing Report #1

Okay, decided to attack the small top of a three drawer cabinet. It was pilled high with a file box, stabilizers, clippings, fabric and other stuff (the basket being one). Put away the fabric which included charm packs, put away clippings, stored the stabilizers, tossed some junk and found 2 ufos. Here's one of them - 16 crumb blocks with border now added and even bound.




The second ufo [really not mine] - I inherited it from my neightbor's stash. She passed away two years ago May. She had joined this bom at one of our LQS, and didn't complete it. Somehow it wound up on my shelf. 3 of them were still in the cut pieces. Ive put together the three, but for some reason they don't call to me, so I'm going to enter them in our orphan block swap at the next guild meeting. I'm going to keep two of them and make something out of them Maybe a lap quilt for my son, Frank's Dodge Charger since the color of it is black. We'll see.

Here are my three cherubs:

They kept me busy during the past Christmas season. What fun we had.

Leo, William and Frank! Leo is going on five months. William is 7 and Frank is 6. They are 18 months apart.

Progrees is Made

Progress is made, at least some.  More blocks were added to the baby quilt I was working on (see previous post). More scraps were used. I...