I slept in a little this morning after being up early the last three days. It felt good to sleep until after 9 am. After breakfast and some strong coffee I was off to my long arm quilter to pick up my friend’s Australian Aboriginal quilt and deliver my Aboriginal Libby quilt for her to quilt.
My friend’s quilt turned out great!
It’s such a simple design that really lets these gorgeous prints shine.
And the backing is just yummy.
The quilting design is sort of spirals with bubbles.
Here’s a little eye candy.
I ran a couple errands while I was out. When I got home I played with Bender and Rico in the back yard for a while then hit my sewing room.
I decided to dig in and make some Frankenbag panels out of the strips I cut off my Aboriginal Libby quilt yesterday. I knew that if I didn’t get it done right away those scarps would sit in a drawer for years.
(Wondering what a Frankenbag is? Check out my tutorial and make your own!)
I had more than enough to make four bag panels. They are very free form and interesting with all the diagonal lines. I think they will look really cool quilted and sewn into bags.
There are only some small pieces left over. I’m glad I got this quick task done.
Then it was time to take my boys for a nice three mile walk in the sunshine. It felt good to get out. When we got home I ordered some dinner to pick up later and hit my sewing room again and finished up the last of the four panels.
Before I had to go and pick up my dinner I decided to press my green quilt again. I was concerned that the edges were a little wavy when it was on the design wall and I was afraid I had stretched out all those bias edges. So I pressed it using some fabric stabilizer.
It all actually laid out nice and flat on my ironing board so I’m not worried about it being wavy any more. I think it was just on the design wall in a wonky way. I didn’t want to manipulate it too much and deform it. It’s now folded and hanging over my sewing room chair to make sure it dries out completely before I fold it and put it in the closet.
After dinner I had another play session with my boys. This photo was taken at around 7:30! I’m so happy to see the light come back to my evenings!
It was a beautiful sky tonight.
After that final play session I hit my sewing room again to start squaring up my Brandon leftover blocks.
Thought I’d probably only get about half of them squared up but it went so fast that I finished all 80 blocks!
All I have to do now is shuffle them up and toss them up on the design wall! This has been one fast little quilt!
I’d better start thinking about what I’m going to make next.
Back to work tomorrow. We have some nice weather coming up. Looks like spring may have arrived after all.