I'm getting ready to load this ugly quilt on the frame.

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It's a UFO from 2011 that I'm still shaking my head about. Orange is the LAST choice on my color wheel, and these fabrics must've jumped in my cart when I wasn't looking. Gonna use it to practice some new LA designs. If it's true that sometimes "the quilting makes the quilt", it's the only hope this poor thing has. I'm just going to relax and have fun quilting it since I know it won't go to anyone!

Cindi, that's a very cute quilt, NOT ugly. Looks like something fun a young girl would love to have. Please consider giving it to a charity group if you don't care for it. Someone will love to have a handmade quilt.

Just bind it with that teal blue and it will all pull together. You'll see!

Hey Dunster. Good to have you back on the board. You can always come up to my place and play !! I have plenty to share. :)

Cindi, that is a cute quilt that any little girl would adore!

I have been asked to make a graduation quilt for a young high school valedictorian, in the colors of the college he is going to. It's for his dorm room. I'm not wild about the school colors, but in the disappearing hour glass pattern they look great! Here are some of my first ones. The little one was a 'tester'... will work it into the back. There will also be black in this quilt.

If I get any break with any energy left while remodeling our kitchen, I might just sew up a bathroom curtain . Or add strips to my new baby quilt, something easy and mindless.

I can't join you until some time tomorrow after I take a nap. My brother in law and his wife are coming for dinner and then staying the night. Then we need to get up at 4 to drive them to the airport for their 8am flight. By the time we drive home I will be ready for a nap.

I am working on putting the binding on a king size quilt for my mom. Then I have to finish the top for a quilt for a friend who just started chemo. If I have time I want to baste and quilt a top I have for a friend's granddaughter's first birthday at the beginning of June.

All the pictures so far look beautiful

I'm ready to play! Just got the garden tilled up and I'll start laying out rows and planting tomorrow. Recently someone posted a two color quilted on the Picture forum that I fell in love with - so I started working on that this AM. I'm doing it a bit different - mine should finish out about 24" square.

Here are a couple of "in progress" pictures.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...psdsmltwcb.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...psfezes3v6.jpg

I also want to get a quilt loaded on the long arm. I've only completed one quilt since getting the new machine. I was going to put this one on - but I just ordered the Pro-Stitcher and I think this would be a good one to practice with that

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...pst7fkxjxo.jpg

- So I think this one will go on instead. I've got quite a few tops ready to quilt. BTW - this picture was taken before I put the boarder on. I really like the butterflies so I know I'd enjoy working with it.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...pspcfk8r0n.jpg

The hopeful 'to-do' list in my mind is long :) but in reality I am hoping to:

get 2 HST squares done
Cut/sew rest of the squares for the rectangles for my Scrappy Swoon (next step comes out this weekend so I don't want to get behind)
assemble 2 shelves for my sewing area

I subbed every day this week and didn't get my sewing area cleaned like I had planned so I will be working on that also.

Tomorrow my friend and I are planning a trip to Como Zoo and the Conservatory.

So I better get started on a project now. The shelves get priority.

Connie

I just finished a hot pad and a few coasters, have a couch-size quilt sandwiched and ready to go as soon as the walking foot I ordered gets here. It's supposed to come tomorrow but with hub home the whole long weekend I don't think I can take over the dining room table just yet, probably have to wait till Tuesday to get started on that one.

Connie, is the Conservatory still as pretty as ever? I've not been there in ages! Way, way long ago, my BIL had a pony ride stand at Como Park - so I spent many summers hanging around, helping give kids rids and bumming around the park when things were slow.

I'm goning to call it a night - I'm a morning person anyway, so I'll probably be up and at the sewing machine by 5am.

here is where I'm at - I'm going to use this as part of a sewing machine cover - and I have a lot of sewing machines that will need them.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ps4eb5mzjl.jpg