I've been busy and sick....

I had a busy week getting ready for the KC's garage sale and then I was home sick Saturday, the day of the sale. Something hit me with a fever, achy, sensitive skin (fan blowing on me hurt!), and diarrhea. But I did get another quilt on the machine early in the week and got it quilted Friday evening before I started feeling bad. This one is for NAQG community projects. I didn't make the top, just brought it home to make the backing, quilt, label and bind. Yesterday I was too miserable to bind it. But I got it done today...going a bit stir crazy with nothing to do but feel bad! I hope this quilt cheers up a child in need. I quilted with chained spirals.

Another being paid forward

This one is made from another set of Lotto blocks. Theses were called Stacks as they look rather like a stack of books. Rather than making a strippie, Chinese Coins type of setting I alternated the way the blocks were turned and added a simple, narrow white border. I quilted it with a linked spiral pattern. Then I used up bits of leftover binding for a scrappy finish. My niece Claire signed up on my pay it forward post and I will be sending this one to her.

UFO/pay it forward

I signed up for a pay it forward swap earlier this year and decided to send this quilt as a gift in the swap. I won the wonky shoo fly blocks in April of 2010. I think they made up into a nice cheerful quilt.

I tried to do different filler quilting on each block but ended up repeating a few. And then a circle/oval in each block center. Those circles were the most time consuming part of the quilt due to stopping and starting and burying the thread tails...but I am getting better at putting the needle down in the right spot to keep things neat!.