I finished a few more projects on the Journey2Nebula sew along that Jaybirds quilts was hosting online this Fall. These little projects were a lot of fun. Here is the Gazebo pattern which I did in some Christmas scraps I had in my stash. I dug out my Westalee foot and ruler to quilt some straight lines in it.
As I was sorting through my "to quilt" basket, I came across this Rock Candy topper that's been in the basket for a few years. I got it quilted as well. Another item of the UFO list ☺.
This quilt top was finally finished this afternoon! It was started in a class with Susan Purney Mark. She came to speak to our guild at the London Friendship Quilt Guild in March of 2011! I was signed up for the workshop the day after and purchased the book at the guild meeting fortunately. We woke up to snowstorm the next day and only three people living close to the venue were even able to make it. I did take the day (with my newly purchased book) and followed the directions to work on it that day. I blogged that sewing day here. It ended up being put into a box and I came across it this summer and decided to get it finished. I'm very happy with the way it turned out. It did use up a lot of scraps.
Now to quilt it or get it quilted so it will truly be finished ☺.
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Last week I had a chance to catch up on some machine quilting and tackled three table toppers I had made for the Journey2Nebula stitch along with Jaybird quilts online. This pattern is called Rock Candy. It was fun to do some nice quilting on these with the solids I used for two of the toppers. I found a charm pack with these suede looking solids which I picked up years ago and separated them into the cool and the warm colours and got two toppers out of them.
The diamonds for the Canada themed topper were cut out years ago and never actually sewn together. The brown stonehenge worked well for the borders and black for the binding and it's done. You can't really see the quilting too much on this one with the busy and textured fabrics so I kept that one fairly simple. And when I was sorting my "to quilt" projects last week, I came across a Christmas one I had done a few years ago as well. It's all layered and ready to quilt. Why couldn't that one show up a little earlier? ☺It might not end up being quilted til next year. (Click on the photo for a larger view.)
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