Today John went to the lake and after my stint at Food Pantry this morning - I decided to get out a couple of old projects and see what I could finish. I had finished the Thrifty Log Cabin top on Tuesday evening but the picture I took is terrible. Anyway, I doesn't really look any different than the progress picture.
And fair warning the pictures I took today are not that great either! They are too big for my design wall so I just threw them down on the carpet.
It's not visible but I used 2 different red checks on the inner border and 2 different blue plaids on the outer border. I looked around at the thrift shop but never could find a super big shirt that would work for the outer border. Thanks to John's closet, I found just what I needed. This quilt will be 75 x 88".
I still had some time so I brought out my Hidden Stars top. All I had to do was piece two single rows for two adjacent sides so that the design would end with star points on those sides.
It will be 75 x 84". Sally at The Traveling Quilter added two borders to her star quilt and it looks really nice but I think I will leave mine border-less.
Now I really have to get busy and make backings and bindings. I have 7 tops with no backings. I had gotten into a routine of making my backing and binding as soon as I finished the top but somewhere along the way I got lazy. There was a time that I had almost 30 tops and I don't want to go there again.
Tomorrow we have Undercover Bee and that is always fun and inspiring to see what everyone else is working on.
And fair warning the pictures I took today are not that great either! They are too big for my design wall so I just threw them down on the carpet.
It's not visible but I used 2 different red checks on the inner border and 2 different blue plaids on the outer border. I looked around at the thrift shop but never could find a super big shirt that would work for the outer border. Thanks to John's closet, I found just what I needed. This quilt will be 75 x 88".
Before adding the extra rows
After adding the extra row
Now I really have to get busy and make backings and bindings. I have 7 tops with no backings. I had gotten into a routine of making my backing and binding as soon as I finished the top but somewhere along the way I got lazy. There was a time that I had almost 30 tops and I don't want to go there again.
Tomorrow we have Undercover Bee and that is always fun and inspiring to see what everyone else is working on.
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