I am just moving right along here. I set a goal at the beginning of the year and I have almost reached that goal. Of course having a quilt show scheduled in less than a month certainly helps with finishing these tops. I am going on vacation in a week, so that kind of pushes me along as well.
I finished two more quilts this past week. One of them was my "under the sea" quilt. These blocks were made from members of a program called Friendship blocks within my guild. There were 14 members and we each chose something that we wanted to have blocks made of. These 14 members would work on each other's blocks. I chose to have the members make me a block from something under the sea. I asked each member to use embellishments, whether it be beads, yarns, buttons, anything they felt would work for an under the sea theme. I also requested they use batik fabrics. This quilt will go into my bathroom where I have a fake aquarium above my shower.
After finishing my fish quilt I decided to quilt my quilt that is called Shadow Play. I made this quilt back in 2008. Wow, how time flies between making quilts. I put this to the side not knowing how I was going to quilt it. I put it on my frame know that I wanted to quilt it with a feather meandering design. I got this quilt quilted in almost a day. I loaded this quilt the long way on the frame and because the panto design was so big I only had to advance this quilt 4 full times and a fifth with about 6 inches to do. I like it and I think it came out pretty good.
I guess I have to load my mystery quilt from 2009-2010 guild year. I had this quilt loaded once but had to take it off and remove the quilting because the tension was horrible. Hopefully I can get this quilted nicely and looking good for the show.
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