Just waiting!

 As I am waiting for warmer temperatures so the sap will run, I find myself tidying up loose ends. I read my last post which was a while ago and realized I needed to do an update.

quilt from other leftovers

for a friend

I have finished a few quilts lately. Some by myself and a couple with the help of my friend and her long arm machine. Two quilts were from bags of scraps I found while doing a stash dive for another quilt. The first one was creams, beiges and browns, the second was leftovers  from another quilt and they will both become charity quilts. You can read about their beginnings here and here. I also finished this very Spring feeling quilt to gift to a friend. It was Bonnie Hunter's mystery from this year. Probably the quickest finish of one of those mysteries for me!

scrappy charity quilt

thousands of hst

I have dug out a project "Jack's Chain" and am trying to complete it. It was a leader and ender and I still want it to be so I needed another project to sew. Crazy I know but the small nine patches are boring to sew one after another! I found a scrap quilt on facebook and loved the look of it. It is called "Pirouette". So as I sew up many thousands of  hst(seems like millions) I will use each project to help finish the other.

almost ready for a border

An update on my hexie quilt is I am getting to the point of being done with the center of it. I finally filled in alot of areas on it and decided I needed to make it one row longer so it would be symmetrical. I am sewing up the last of the diamonds while watching the year end curling championships.  It measures about 75 x 86. Then it will be onto borders. Not that that will be easy, the borders are more hexies!!!