These beauties are off to their homes now. They were a delight to finish and my clients love them!
I'm also busily working on stockings for some guys who are here without friends or family for the upcoming holiday season. The community plans to pitch in to help fill the finished stockings and help them feel like they have family here too.
There hasn't been a lot of time for sewing for me with all that, but I've made enough progress on my Surfside quilt that I basted it...a few weeks ago...and now it's waiting on me to clear some of my more urgent completions.
I finished quilting this yesterday, and it's got a few imperfections. Mainly that I didn't consider my rule of always starting a quilt with a fresh spool of thread. I ended up quilting the middle 3 rows with light blue and then switching back to yellow...only to run out of bobbin with 6 blocks left.
I could have squeezed one more partial bobbin out of the yellow, which I found out too late! So the last 6 blocks subsequently have yellow on top and blue on bottom. Luckily, it's for me.
I also tried a 2 inch binding on it instead of my normal 2.5, and I really like the way it turned out! The binding is tight and just feels secure.
I also recalled the Leah Day class I took on Craftsy and Pat's new Teach Me to Machine Quilt and tried out some new things while free-motion quilting. Here were some of my creative takes...
Triangles
Spirals
and a Circuit Board/Square design.
Today, however, I had a certain Puffball decide I had more important matters to attend to, i.e., him. Here's what thinking you're going to get some work done looks like!
I'm excited to have received one of my Christmas presents early from my husband...EQ7! Electric Quilt 7 is a great way to design your quilts before you ever cut, and I've been loving it! There's definitely a learning curve, but the pretty things I'm creating are worth it!
Here's a peek at an in-progress :-)
So tell me...do you EQ? Any WIP presents you're finishing off?
