This week I have two finishes to share. First is one of the projects from my UFO list, what I call the History Center quilt. I purchased this quilt top at the local history center's fundraising yard sale last year. It was quite inexpensive and I couldn't just leave it there. I shared recently that I had quilted it. I finished the binding on Friday so that I could share it at small guild before donating it to the community quilts program at the big guild in a few weeks.
I wasn't able to get a good picture of the whole thing since the weather didn't cooperate and I didn't have a tall enough quilt holder (quilt measures 79" x 90"). So here is a poor picture of it on the floor.
My second finish is my first new start of the year. I took a class at the IHQS at the beginning of March and here is my completed project, the Dresden Plate mini. I learned a few things on this one. One, it's really hard to get a nice, smooth center. Two, I had a lot of issues with the background fabrics shadowing through after quilting. I had accounted for it as best as I could with the center circle, however, I did not expect the backgrounds to show through the fans. Three, it looks like I didn't do a very good job of trimming since it is off-center. I have enough fans to make a second one, so some day I might try again with lighter backgrounds.
I've been working a bit more on the Linda J. Hahn class quilt that I'd selected for this month's OMG. I was removing the papers prior to assembling since the marks show through the fabrics. I guess I pulled a bit too hard on this one. 😄
I'm finding the assembling of the star blocks to be beyond tedious. I have about a week left to get the top assembled before OMG opens up. Not sure I'll make it.
Beyond that, it's spring break and I've been taking things pretty slow.
I finished up Dawn's quilt and got the binding attached to the front for her.
I finished quilting Annie's t-shirt quilt. You can see the Beavis and Butthead backing fabric in this photo.
I started on a group of Ann's quilts. This one is quilted with Cloud Nine Petite, but you really can't see it. I will attach the binding to the fronts of all of her quilts.
Another of Ann's, quilted with Flirtatious.
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| Pelicans and sea gulls |
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| Black-necked Stilt |
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| Pair of Stilts |
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| Pelicans |
In chicken news, my daughter got the chicken coop cleaned up. We were surprised that Peanut laid an egg the next day. She hasn't laid in months. We found a second egg this week too. I mentioned before that we are having some eggs hatched to hopefully add more hens to the coop. Unfortunately, the lady had a lengthy power outage during the storms we had this weekend and her incubators were down for more than five hours. She isn't sure they will still hatch--they had about two weeks left--so she has started another batch. That will take at least three weeks more.
Finally, the best news of all arrived this week. My son was invited to apply to the Luddy Scholars program a while back. He wasn't sure he wanted to write an essay and wasn't entirely sure what the program even is. And he had just over 24 hours to get it done from the time of notification to the due date. I insisted he apply. Well, he was selected for the program and awarded a very nice scholarship. We believe that he now has more than enough to cover his tuition. What a relief! And an honor.
I'll be back with the OMG finish link up for this month next Wednesday. Depending on how things go, I may or may not make an additional, regular post next week.
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