One Monthly Goal Finishes!!

 Well, I am actually getting my finishes

 into the finish link ups, yay!!!

I have made some great progress this July. 

The beginning of the month saw a colorful top quilted 

up and donated to the Northeast Babies. 

Then, after a  difficult quilting morning, 

two of the crazy log cabins were quilted up. 

A saucy stripy binding finished them off very well and 

the " to be quilted" pile is shrinking nicely. 

The backs were fun too!

The end home for these quilts is yet to be 

decided but they 

should be welcome where ever they go!

I started a total of four of these black background

log cabins during wild weekend of making the center

blocks that left me with lots of options for quilts!

I've made a good start on the Rainbow strip strings tops too!

A few afternoons layering up should get the 

rainbow tops ready to quilt!

Stay safe and sew on into August!

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 The past few weeks have been busy and productive!

A few more tops to layer and two quilts fully complete!

The two black wonky log cabins have made it through the 

binding stage and are ready for labeling 

as soon as they find a home. 

They were fun to do and the stripy binding suits them 

completely. The usual finishing method for me is to 

apply straight grain binding to my quilts. 

 It wears well and I've never had

to replace a binding.  The multiple color fabric set aside

for binding had a horizontal stripe. Positioning 

a linear stripe would be very challenging and not the 

look I was planning. So off I went to make bias binding.

I found a number of techniques available and chose 

the simplest possible.  

Folding  a 1 meter square diagonally and then cutting 

stripes with the fold horizontally yielded a number of 

bias stripes.  Stitching them together to make 

binding yardage was easy and 1 meter square 

produced enough binding for two twin sized quilts with 

some left over. 

The free motion quilting was quick on one top and 

difficult for the other.  I enlarged  a small flower pattern

and the enlargement made the speed and tension critical 

to the result.  I should learn not to alter everything I try. 

They finally finished up nicely and I can add them to the 

completed list! 

So that will make the stash report this week :

Fabric Purchased: 0 m

Used since last report  12 m 

Fabric In to date: 25.5 m

Use to date 2024 : 42 m

Scraps in : 0 m

Scraps out : 0 m

Big Batch donation : 60 m (June) 

Net Fabric in YTD: 28.5 m

Spending today making a back and getting ready to layer 

the quilts needed for August!

Stay Safe and Sew On!

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