What I’m Working On…

When I last left you, I asked what you thought I should work on.  There was such a wide variety of answers.  I loved reading them all.

When I last left you my Remainders quilt was this far along…

My green leftovers quilt needed borders…

…and I was itching to start sewing some strings to make this.

So what did I do???? Probably what none of you expected.  I worked on the Remainders quilt.

The quilt I’m making is Remainders and is from the book No Scrap Left Behind by Amanda Jean Nyberg.  Find the book HERE. I got on a roll with the quilt and I just went with it.

This is so not my typical quilt.  I don’t do lots of white.  I don’t do real basic….but guess what??  I love it.

I kept on going with it.  Here it is all ironed-It’s folded in half.  I made this big…bigger than the original.

I just love the quirkiness of this.  The triangles are all different sizes.  All slightly just slightly different.

I even hunted and found a backing…It’s a thrift store find, thus making this one of the cheapest quilts I’ve ever made.

While I was making one backing, I decided to make two…one for another flimsy quilt top here waiting to be quilted.

I reminded myself that my goal is to not let my flimsy pile get too big, so I loaded it right away.

Not only did I load it right away…

I started quilting it right away.  After coming back from appointments one of the days last week, I finished the longarming.

I am totally in love with this quilt.  When I was making it, my plan was to put it in a pile to be gifted.  I don’t know now.  I really like it and it will currently be hard to gift.

For now, it’s in a pile that needs to be bound.

From there I loaded another quilt right away.  Do you remember my Two-Step quilt?

Here is the picture from the book.  I, of course, made mine bigger.

The quilt is in this book. You can find the book HERE on Amazon.

I debated on what to do for the quilting…Straight line quilting won out.

One of the favorite things for almost everyone who has a longarm is unrolling the quilt after the quilting is done.  I snapped a picture.  It’s the time you start to get a good glimpse of how the quilt is going to look all finished.

I’m super happy with this one.  I’m so glad I made it…just cute.

This one went on the “to be bound” pile with the other one.

Being I still had more flimsies here, I decided to keep going.  One of the hardest things for me to find time for is longarming.  So, being I was off work still, longarming is the job I should work on.  So…on went another.

This one is a charity quilt.  Sadly, I don’t remember who donated it.
I kept it aside because it has pets on it.  I will donate it to the next pet rescue group that asks me for a quilt for their fundrasier.  I always have someone who asks so it will be nice to have one already done.

It’s loaded but I haven’t done anything else.  Sometimes, loading it is half the battle of getting the quilts done.

That’s all I got done last week.  My medical appointments took up much of my time as did my hospital stay.  I’m anticipating a slow couple of days around here trying to get back to myself and then hopefully I can get back at it.

I have a few more quilts that I would love to do some longarming on including my Double Wedding Ring.