Mission Accomplished!

I had 2 goals this weekend- get the borders on my tumbler and baste two little quilts. I am very happy to say I got it done! That does not happen often as usually my quilty goals take longer than I think they will.

Here is the tumbler with borders. It will finish about 58" by 66". I may just have enough of the border fabric left to do binding but if not I'll make it a scrappy binding. 

Here are the hexagons- it is 26" from flat side to flat side.

I did a double row of hexagons on the border- some of that last row will get cut off when I add binding.

I think I have it figured out how to quilt it. It is just deciding on color(s) now.

When I basted the little nine patch I used the wool batting I had pressed to get out the wrinkles. It had fluffed right up! 

You can't really see it that well but as I basted the stitches really compressed the batting back down so I am hoping when I hand quilt it, it will not look too 'fluffy'!

Here it is...it is 14"x 18".

I'll enjoy quilting this one! 

Happy Stitching!

Two Glorious Days

This week I had a wonderful treat- 2 days at home to do what ever I wanted! 

I sewed and napped and sewed and napped.... I have been working on my tumblers- getting them all sewn together.

  I am so glad I decided to lay them out so no seams had to match. Here and there there was a tumbler cut on the bias and I had to be very careful with the stretch. It was so much fun though because every tumbler came from someone else's stash . I don't even remember seeing a fabric that I actually have in my stash so it is fun - all the colors, textures and a few surprises (like fish) but they all just blend together!

Once the strips were all together it measures about 66" long but only 43" wide. I want this to be a good napping quilt so it really needs more width. I am trying to use what I have so I found a green polka dot in my stash that I thought would work. I stared at that for a few days. I think it will work. I got it ironed today so I will get the borders on this week. 

While I was ironing I got two backs and two battings ready to baste 2 small quilts. Here is one of them! 

Have you ever ironed batting? I did today. I am using up some scraps for the small quilts and they were really wrinkled. I spritzed some water and ironed them on low using a pressing cloth. The wool batting had a 'wet wooly' smell but once it was dry it was fine. The other batting was cotton and it pressed out really well. 

Hopefully tomorrow I will baste and maybe get a couple borders on too!  

Happy Stitching!