A finish for Sunday

 I needed a panel I had purchased to be turned into a baby quilt for today. Well, that got changed to midnight last night, as Emily really wanted me to go to horses with her instead of the baby shower today. I will, so I had to get this done for 11:30PM last night before I left to go pick Emily up at school after a marching band competition in Orlando yesterday.  Did I get it done? Yup! Washed and dried and everything!

The blocks were being guarded on Friday while I worked. I managed to get the last few blocks made, a few surrounds swapped as they were the same next to each other and into an almost top Friday. I had 2 long seams to sew Saturday. Then it got sandwiched..... would you believe the 45x54 quilt had a music fabric for the back that was 43 inches? Sigh. I added a black strip to it. Then used that cut off as the binding for it.

After some errands to get the corresponding board book for ABC by Dr. Seuss, after dropping Emily to school in the morning then hitting the Market of Marion for some fresh veggies, it was an afternoon of sewing, preparing for machine quilting and quilting. Then a binding was made and I settled in after dinner to hand stitch the binding down.

A run through the washer with color catchers and a dry, and it was rolled up and popped into the bag with the book and a note of the washing and care instructions. Essentially, normal wash and dry. Use and abuse, lay on the ground to catch spit up - much easier to wash this than clean a carpet, drag me around, snuggle with me, build forts, have picnics, teach me the alphabet and colors, etc. I'm made to be used.

Since that is done, I'll go back to stitching some green circles onto the String of Beads top where the green peels join to make them look a little nicer. I prepped 22 but only need 21 I think.

Then back to hand quilting practice on this little piece.

I'll also be hanging pictures and quilts in my office once I finish moving things in there. The bare walls want some color added to them!

Linking up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitchers.