Christening Quilt Finished

Another one bites the dust! Another one bites the dust!

Is that what we're supposed to be saying about quilting?

Well, maybe not, but it is what I think when I snip off the last thread from binding, and then go back to trim any stray threads and pull out the basting thread from the binding.

Another one bites the dust! Another one bites the dust!!

This is the most recent christening quilt.



I should have done close-ups. I really liked the fairies.

Table runners

This is the season for table runners. I'm making them for Christmas, both for myself and to give as gifts. This one is a template for a pattern I'm writing - as simple as they get - Nine Patch and Rails.



There are two place mats to go with this one. Don and I will use them for ourselves.

There is something about the simple nine-patch that I find alluring. It's easy to sew, easy to cut and fits together in so many different ways.

Another baptism quilt

I've written that before - and that's good news. Another baptism quilt means there's another baby being baptized.

I have a week to turn this mess:



into a simple quilt for a baby. It wouldn't be so bad if my brother weren't coming midway through the week for his father-in-law's funeral. We'll take the time to say a proper farewell to Bill Bulat and then it will be back to the machine.

Another baptism quilt

This is the fourth I've made - at least, the fourth I've started. This one will be for a girl, and I thinks she's being baptized at the Cathedral on Thanksgiving weekend.

It's getting harder to find nice kids' fabric that isn't too cartoony, but I think this lot works.

more half square triangles

The Undercover Strippers (don't blame me - I didn't choose the name) tease me about my quilt preferences. Half square triangles, again?

We have a workshop coming up with the Quilt Patch from Moose Jaw. I enrolled because I want to learn machine applique. They assured me that I could change the rest of the quilt to half-square triangles if I wanted. Like, why did they think I hadn't already planned to do that?

Here is the most recent. This is the centre of Music Hath Charms.



(There's a row missing on the bottom. I forgot to take a photo until I'd started piecing the centre.)

I like half-square triangles. I don't know why, I just know I do. Now, I hate the trimming and all that, but I seem to do them time after time, so there must be some reason I don't fully comprehend.

I'm not quite sure on borders. Some pinwheels for sure, but how many, or what else hasn't quite been decided.

Music Hath Charms

There's not a lot to see at this point - it's nothing but half-square triangles and strips cut to be made into more half-square triangles. As my friends would say - "hey, there's a surprise." Some day I think I'll write a book that starts, "First, make a thousand half-square triangles."



All the fabric is music themed, which will make sense to the recipient. The colour scheme is black, white, tan and red, with none of the red fabric cut yet. It's still waiting to arrive.

Christening Quilt #3

Since I volunteered to do christening quilts, this is my third - me, who has done only one baby quilt before I did these. This is #3 and I am trying to get ahead of the curve, so it is neither male nor female, just baby. I bought the fabric a week ago at Kickass Country Store in Plumas (I love that store) and so far, the centre is complete. It needs borders and then I'll get down to quilting.