I finished the "Nantucket" quilt by 1:30 yesterday afternoon. By 2:00, I had delivered it to Kathy at Sandy's Quilt Shop for the long-arm quilting portion of the job. I beat my deadline by a week!One down, one to go.
I drove back home and started cutting the fabrics for the queen size quilt that's next up. I'm going to call it "Lavender Dreams". This one has to be at the shop by the second week in November, but I'm going to try to finish it by late next week. You know I'll let you know how I'm doing!Cutting and sewing today...LOTS of half-square triangles. (You're going to love this pattern!) If I can keep Miss Snoopy Pants from sneaking a peek, I'll give you snapshots of my progress. (Just in case, I'll put them into my Flickr album for "What I'm Sewing Now". The link is in my right sidebar near the bottom. She'll never look there!)
The Chorale rehearses with the Concert Band this evening, so I'll be singing while Handsome plays in the percussion section. I'm really looking forward to it!
I hope you have a happy and creative day, too, my friends.
Congrats on a job well done - It's beautiful !!
ReplyDeleteThe quilt looks great, you did a great job piecing it. I'm sure it will be amazing once it's been quilted.
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming to visit and being a new follower.
Have a great day, Angela.
This quilt top turned out so pretty, Donna! I love how the softly muted colors blend & merge so beautifully...cloud-like, almost.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see the final quilting on it, too.
We have several long arm quilting places here but I've never used any of them. I sent one an email request the other day, asking some questions about quilting my Venice Memories quilt.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m97/Rettabug/Quilts/VeniceMemoryQuilt2004to20008.jpg
Never got an answer! :(
There is a local quilt shop that lets you rent time on their long arm after you've taken their class ($50) I'm seriously considering it!
Donna...this quilt is lovely I'm sure your friend is just going to love it, would love to hear the concert band and chorale rehearse together I'm sure it will be wonderful have fun!!
ReplyDeleteYou are so amazing to me Donna!!! You get. it. DONE! And how gorgeous too...such a wonderful heirloom :) I hope you are doing great sweet friend, hugs and love, Dawn
ReplyDeleteYour quilt top is beautiful, Donna and I love the colors you chose for the next one! Last week I finished a scrap quilt top that I had started about 5 years ago. Better late than never, right ;-)? I'm waiting now for the backing fabric to arrive from the US, so that I can start hand quilting it.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely Thursday!
Hugs,
Julia
Totally beautiful!! Is there anyway in one of your posts that you could share for us followers what we would expect to pay when we took a quilt to a person that does the quilting on a machine.
ReplyDeleteI am new at this at would like to have an idea of what to expect.
I still can't beleive you have the quilt top done. Sure am glad I found your blog.
Looking forward to seeing the quilting, quilt is striking and lovely..
ReplyDeleteMaggey
Congratulations on fnishing early!
ReplyDeleteLove the colors in the next quilt.
Debbie
It's beautiful, Donna! Have fun tonight! Twyla
ReplyDeleteOh, the Nantucket quilt is so lovely! The colors are just gorgeous. Hope you enjoy a harmonizing night with Mr. Handsome this evening. :) Theresa
ReplyDeleteIt turned out so pretty girlfriend! I love it!
ReplyDeleteHope you had fun singing. :)
xx, shell