I finished the binding on Thimbleberry Village quilt this weekend and will add a label tonight.  Another completed quilt, YEA!!   

I also cut, sewed and ironed the binding to go on my Tiger Lily quilt.  I’ll sew it on to the quilt soon.  I hand appliqued this quilt and my mother did the quilting. 

Here’s a few close-ups of the quilting details on the Village quilt which was also quilted by my mom.

I messed around a bit in my sewing room making a string block to see how they go together and some crumb blocks.

I’m trying to decide if I want to keep the crumbs I’ve saved…..

I’ll play around with them a bit more as I’m not sure if I like doing these or not. 

Light shirts are finished and I’m making a dent in the dark ones.  And look at all the shirt buttons!  The box is from candy I received for the holidays.  The square flap folds over and the small flap folds over on top and has a magnet in it to hold it closed….way to nice to just throw away!

This weekend I sewed the borders on the Steelers baby quilt and pieced the back so it’s ready to be quilted.   It doesn’t seem to photograph well but it’s nice a bright, perfect for a little boy 🙂

I finished two charity quilts this weekend. I broke a needle and knocked the timing out on my machine for the first time. It only took one phone call, albeit a long one, to my dad to get the timing re-set. I did free motion quilting on both of these quilts. After the last pantograph, I wanted less stressful quilting. One of these quilts was a bit wavy and I wanted to give it special attention to see if I could “quilt it out”. I think I did a pretty good job. I have one more left to quilt as we are trying to get these finished up to make our donation deadline.

Here’s the wavy quilt (click to see larger picture):

And here’s a redwork quilt.

Here’s a couple more charity quilts I finished this week.  The stamped cross stiched panel and the embroidered blocks were donated to the guild and a member pieced the tops.  I decided to use a pantograph on the panel one even though it would go on top of the cross stitching and free motioned the embroidered blocks.  I need more practice (which is why there isn’t a close up of the stitching, Mumsy).