Casper isn’t one of those cats with a particular location that is “his”. Although he does have his favorite spots, I’m likely to find him curled up anywhere. What was he thinking this time? That Simontacchi wouldn’t be able to bother him, I’ll bet!
Finishes
This past week I finished hand sewing the binding down on this quilt, from the 2004 First Saturday program at the Quilted Fox. My mom quilted this one for me and she used a pantograph with butterflies.
I quilted yet another charity quilt and this time used a pantograph. It went pretty well as I’m starting to get the hang of the whole looking ahead thing. I need to get the hang of the “looking up at the quilt” thing too as it’s a waste of time to get to the end of a row and discover you ran out of bobbin right after starting!!!
Cute Cats
Both of my cats were being cute this weekend. Here’s Casper in a new hiding place made available after the shelves were cleared for the AT&T U-verse installation. (Double click to get larger images of any of these)
And Simontacchi is keeping warm. He crawls up under the quilt and makes himself at home. He woke up so he’s peaking at me to see what I’m up to 🙂
I’ve made good head way cutting up the Scappy Mountain Majasties shirts. There are a couple more light ones and lots of darks ones left to go!
Steelers Baby Quilt Progress
I’m making good progress on the Steelers baby quilt. I’m once again webbing the top (directions from Bonnie Hunter). Double click to enlarge the pictures.
I fussy cut the cornerstones to get the Steelers logo in each one…..I had just enough fabric left to do this.
There are now four charity quilts waiting for quilting which I plan to work on this weekend. One more of the Mola animals and three with embroidered blocks that someone donated to our efforts. I’m also starting to cut apart some more shirts. They are not from the Goodwill this time! I’m making a quilt for someone from their son’s shirts using the Scrappy Mountain Majesty pattern from Quiltville. There are plenty of shirts so I will have a good variety to work with. My plan is to save the back pieces to use for the backing of the quilt. I suspect there will be enough fabric but I can’t tell for sure until I have everything cut apart.
Top Completed
I finished piecing the log cabins. I’m happy with both the size (approx 56 x 70) and the look the finish top. I will quilt it myself, probably with a meander.
Here’s the First Saturday “Tipsy Fox” blocks I mentioned in my previous post. I hadn’t realized how many we have done. These blocks will be cut into quarters and sewed back together after mixing and matching the quarters.
Last I made a test block of a pinwheel pattern. This is the block I’ll be using for a baby quilt for a Steelers fan to be……blue, red, yellow & black!!! Glad it’s to be a baby boy 🙂
