Just because I left for Thailand on Friday, you didn’t think I’d leave you alone all week did you?
I spent last week finishing up a bit of work on a couple of quilts. Not because there is anything particularly urgent about them, just because I wanted to. One is a large “winter” themed bed quilt that I’ve been working on for a quite a while and I’m determined to get it done and on the bed by February at the latest. Imagine how delighted I was to finish quilting the border sooner than I expected! I even got the binding edge attached and started securing it. I will likely have it on the bed by the end of January barring any disasters in my schedule. Pictures soon, promise!
The other is a quilt for my son and the urgency there is more his than mine 
But while I was rooting around in my fabric cupboard looking for fabric to use on the edge of my “winter” quilt, I found a large piece of fabric that coordinated perfectly with the twin sized sea turtle quilt top I completed a couple of weeks ago. I was so thrilled that I decided to get it all layered and ready to go so I could start quilting it upon my return.
Can’t you see why he’s in such a state of anticipation?
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The two different blues were supposed to make it look like different temperatures of water. Not sure that idea works quite as well outside of my head, but it’s done now and my son doesn’t seem to mind!
Thinking about it, between the sea turtles and the queen sized commission that I have yet to start, I probably have enough hand quilting projects to last me until summer vacation and the year has hardly started yet. I always like to think of a new year as a fresh, clean start and here I am already bogged down. I know that I’ll manage to fit in a few other smaller projects here and there (including the two Noah’s Ark baby quilts) but I think that otherwise I am going to try to shift my focus more on personal projects for the second half of the year.
What a totally cool quilt! Love the design, the colors, the everything. (Secret admission: I don’t like turtles. But I like these!
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by Mama Pea January 11th, 2010 at 6:17 pmThanks! I can’t claim the design as my own, but it did come out nicely
by Jenyfer January 20th, 2010 at 1:54 am