I got a lot done this weekend, but last week ended on an exasperating note. There should be a saying in quilting, like “check the back twice, sew once”. I was working on the last two (of four) Sunshine Bunnies quilts, I had gotten three rows sewn when I saw the backing. The dreaded railroading of the bobbin thread, ugh. Thankfully the butterfly design I was stitching doesn’t have a lot of back tracking. It took me a few hours to pick it all out. I changed out the thread choice, and everything sewed out well. I finished Saturday afternoon and got all four quilts bound and finished by 4pm. It was pedal to the metal, I really wanted to get two of them in the mail Monday morning. Goal met. Looking at these photos, I see that I also should get the I spy quilt top together. I just need to sew the diagonal rows together. Add it to the list.

As a reward for being so speedy, I worked on another block for the Ahoy quilt, the whale and sea star. I think I am going to explore the fancy stitches on my 790pro for some pre-quilting embellishment. I thought about doing some with the quilting, but the shapes are irregular and it would a pita to block them out for the panto stitching. I am not going to free hand the background on this either.

The top section of the Tilda quilt is finished and I basted the bottom sections pieces onto the background. It’s all ready for appliqué, when I have a free moment. I probably will free hand quilt this background, it’s got so many little pieces and parts. It will probably end up as a wall hanging anyway.

I got a package in the mail, of fabric. I had to really think as to what I bought it for, and I figured it out to be a pumpkin patch quilt – like the one pictured below from earlier this year. The fabric was on sale and then if you bought 5 yards you got one free. I ended up getting 2 free yards that will work for something else. I also bought yardage yesterday, to make this (center) cute Halloween themed quilt. I have the panel of center motifs already, the pattern was free and the fabric was not, but it’s a cute design and print. The third orange and black quilt is one I have had my eye on, possibly scrappy, but I don’t have a panel to cut up for the centers. Three quilts to join the to-do queue, after all five left it.

I finally installed EQ8 on this laptop. I have it on my older one, but it is very slow these days. The battery doesn’t hold a charge on it either. I have been seeing ideas on the web and then working out my own versions to try. This week I would really like to get the rest of the Sunshine bunnies fabric used up and into tops, and the rest of the woodland friends into something too. Maybe I’ll just do two Yellow brick road tops. Then I’ll work on the (new) Pumpkin patch, and by then the fabric for the other halloween quilt will be here. I would also like to get the Quandary quilt on the frame, but now that I am thinking about it, that is too big of a project to finish before the Ahoy quilt needs quilting. That one needs to be finished soon. I can put the Pumpkin patch I made last year on, that’ll be a quick finish. Then I will have four quilts to do a photo session with. Hmm, this sounds like a two week plan.

Be Kind.