Design Wall Monday 4/8/13

I thought I had 4 charity quilts to quilt - turns out I only have one to quilt and three to bind.  Am now working on the binding of the third. In the photo above I am sewing the binding to the back of the quilt and then will bring it over to the front and machine stitch it down.  I finished the two others and they are on this pile (the first top two). These will go to St. Anne's for new mothers and their babies.

I'm been reprieved of babysitting tomorrow, so that will give me a good start on quilting the last one and then binding it.  I'm on track to get them done by the 10th to show on the 11th - yeah! My cutting table is my design wall and the extension to the bed of my sewing machine, so that's why I'm showing these today.  What's on your design wall?  I'm linking over to Judy's Patchwork Times to see what others are working on.

Back to binding.

Stash Report 4/7/13

Frank was over for a part of his spring break. We took walks and explored the neighborhood.  Took in a movie, visited family in between spots of computer time.  It's always nice to have him here.

After his dad picked him up, I was able to put in some quilting time.  I sewed together a VA charity quilt for 2 yards out and bound two other charity quilts for .6 yards out.  Hope to get another St. Anne's quilt done today.

Here are my numbers:

 in 0.0 yds.; out 2.6 yds.

Stash YTD: in 3.0 yds., out  27.33 yds.

Donated this week: 0.0 yds; YTD: 8.09 yds

Net for 2013: out 24.33 yds.

 

Still at a snail's pace forward, but it is forward - LOL - I'll have to weed some fabric from my stash for the thrifty corner at our next guild meeting - maybe that will jump start me again to a faster pace.

 

How are you doing?  Would love to see what's happening with your stash.  I'm linking to Judy's Patchwork Times to see what others have done.

Applique Thursday 4/6/13

My #2 DGS is here for three days.  Enough said.  See you next Thursday!

Here's a couple of  links to some magnificent eye candy,  You know how much I love eye candy - LOL:
http://elmgrovepatchwork.typepad.com/my-blog/2013/03/primarily-quilts-by-di-ford.html

http://www.patchalafolie.com/patchalafolie/retour-sur-expos/creativa-nantes

Oh! and the winner of last week's book is:  Billie!  Congratulations!  I've sent an email.

Bye for now.