It's a Finish!

It's a Finish!

36 x 48

Machine quilted in variegated blue thread on top and natural in the bobbin. 

If the very middle looks a tiny tiny bit wider than the rest...well, it is. You may or may not know that I have a wringer washer.  It is difficult to squeeze out enough water to put a quilt in the dryer without a spin cycle.  I normally drape the smaller quilts on an old wooden drying rack.  I have no place to dry them flat. (The larger quilts are taken to the laundromat). Well...a couple of wooden dowels came out of the drying rack and I haven't had a chance to glue them back in. One dowel is warped and I'm not sure I'll even be able to get it glued back in. I guess it's time to buy a new drying rack.  I found the one I've been using many many years ago at a thrift store so it really has seen better days.   So, I know I should not hang quilts on the clothesline to dry when they are really wet but I thought if I just folded it it in half and draped it over the line this small quilt would not stretch out of shape. Well...I was wrong.  Somehow where it was folded over the clothesline the quilt grew a tiny bit wider. Darn!  When I took it off the line when it was almost dry to put it in the dryer to finish up I never noticed it but I sure do now.   In order to fix the problem I might wet the quilt and clear off the dining room table (full of tomatoes and peppers right now) and dry it flat there on beach towels. 

 Twelve ships with different colors of sails.  This was a Rainbow Scrap Challenge project a few years ago. I found one ship at a time was not efficient so quit making them.  I dug out the UFO to finish for some soon-to-be grandparents and found I needed five more blocks.  No problem. 

I quilted "clouds" and "waves"...

 ...but left the ship and sails unquilted so they would stand out a bit. 

I had almost enough blue solid for the binding.  I grabbed a snowflake scrap from the 2.5 inch scrap box to finish out the binding.    Which came first? - the quilt or the backing? The backing fabric inspired the quilt!  

This was goal #11

for

Q3 Finish-Along

and

this was my August OMG (One Monthly Goal)

And another UFO gets checked off the list! 

Wooden Ships on the Water, Very Free and Easy

Wooden Ships

It's a flimsy

36 x 48

Free pattern from Quilter's Cache

A few years ago...or was it last year?...I was making one block a month using the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color of the month for sails.  I got as far as seven blocks and then quit making them. I guess I stashed them away and forgot I was making them.  Anyway, a few weeks ago I found them and made the five blocks necessary to complete a top. 

I had the backing stored with the blocks so I wouldn't use it for something else.  Usually I find something for a backing only after I complete a top.   

I know a couple of people who will be grandparents soon so this will go to them when finished. 

And that's why getting this finished will be August's OMG (One Monthly Goal).