Slow sunday binding

 I had so much fun yesterday at Hammer and Stain Ocala! My original choice had some issues with the design going onto the board, but they had this one in stock and I think I like it even better. Sometimes things are meant to be! I had a plain wooden plank. I opted to do a light stain with a touch of white in it. I selected the colors to use - and love how the brown letters turned out. I'm going to go back next Saturday and add a welcome to the back with a little red truck with a Christmas tree in the back for the o in welcome. That way I can just turn this around after Thanksgiving and I'm all set for Christmas!

I might have done some birthday shopping after that. Well, in my defense, Missouri Star Quilt Company sent me a $15 off an order of $60 for my birthday and my MIL might have gifted me some birthday $ to spend on me only! Got to love my MIL! She is a keeper. 

So..... I got myself a mystery end of the bolt box. I got one 2 years ago and it was so fun and still providing me with useful fabrics. Since those were on sale for almost half off, and not included for my birthday code... I 'had' to go looking and added these two sets of fabrics. I might have searched for them a few weeks ago but did not get them. Since I had that coupon.... the price was right to get them! This will let me make that Christmas Tree quilt I posted a while ago. I have bright yellows for the stars and plenty of lights for the background.

Wilmington Essentials - Emerald Forest 10 Karat Gems. Wilmington Essentials - Red Carpet 40 Karat Gems

I'll be working on stitching the binding onto the trip around the world quilt. I hand pieced this with 2 inch squares quite a few years ago. (December 2014 was the start time on this one). I machine quilted it Thursday. So close to a finish. 2 sides left to stitch.

This was me being lazy and forgetting to add the corner triangle.  It actually worked out ok!

Linking up with the slow Sunday stitchers.