Finally Getting Back to Finishing Things

I am not sure what year I started either of these quilts. The topa spent a long time languishing in my sewing room waiting to be quilted and I finally sent it off to be quilted.

It sat for a long. long time, then went off to the quilter and came back and went into be my to be bound pile as it was summer in Alaska and I was off on a road trip and not sewing, or at least not able to use a machine, as I had handwork with me on the trip.

I came home and jumped back into subbing and it sat in the pile, along with several others. Then in December 2015 I fell on the ice and broke my wrist and was unable to sew at all for a couple months and then no hand sewing until March or April, during which time I was also dealing with family health issues and made two trips to Tennessee.

Summer came again and the world turned upside down for us and we were off to Tennessee again for most of the summer.  We came back in the fall just before school started and I have been busy subbing full time and keeping busy to help me deal with grief and sitting and doing handwork just left me too much time to think.  After our cruise through the Panama Canal over the Christmas holidays I was ready to get back to my handwork. I have finished five projects two of which included binding quilts.

I can only show you two of them as two are gifts and the recipient has not yet received them, the quilt needs a label and I am working on that now.  Another is my project for the Ugly Fabric Challenge and we are not revealing that until March 31st, so I have to wait a couple more weeks before I can post it.

But here are the two quilts that I have finished this year, that I am able to post. One was finished February 10 and it is a star quilt with a piano key boarder. This was a kit that I bought from a store that was called Needle Crafters and has since been bought, moved locations and renamed The Quilt Tree.

Undercover in Houston II

The other was started when Debbie Caffrey still lived in Anchorage, Alaska as I took the class from her.  It is called Undercover in Houston II.