Ok then

it's about long enough since those grad quilts were completed and I'd better get them recorded. Can't even remember what was posted about grad #11's quilt so here's a quick recap. This baby was started way back before I'd done a whole lot of quilting and had yet to realize how very critical accurate seams were for setting blocks together properly. Another issue was that all of the 12" finished quarter square triangle blocks and the smaller half-square triangle blocks were cut with the bias edges on the outside of the blocks. That made for some necessary frogging, resizing, and restitching many of those blocks. Lesson learned: I don't get along too well with biased edges (hehe). At any rate I was glad when all was said and done that those blocks were resized ~ it made stitching them together sew much easier!

#11

Pillowcase

1 of 17 of these blocks

Backing

For a while I was pretty good about keeping a file card with snippets of each fabric including the manufacturer, collection, any additional selvage info, how much I had, where it came from, when I bought it and what I intended to do with it. For some odd reason, I have no record of these fabrics at all ~ how did that happen? Anyway, the quilt was gifted and by now, hopefully, it's being used. She said she loved it. =)

Other than that there are socks on needles, one sweater finished, quilts running around in my head ~ only one next year and I think I've decided on a pattern for it, two that still need binding stitched down, two that need quilting and binding both and a serious lack of motivation at the moment. If only I could figure out why it's so easy to start new projects and so tough to see them through to completion. Gotta' seriously work on that!

Saving the second one for next time.

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