Challenge is going great! Finished the first one for the Sylvia family and delivered it Monday. She loved it and sent two more tops with batting home with me. I have to shop for backing for her. That sounds funny, but she is homebound so she gives me her JoAnn's coupon and I go get the fabric and then she pays me back. So the finished one is the brown and pinks. I used Victorian Rose thread and it matches the pinks nicely. But the neat thing is that the pink looks great on the brown backing! Two quilts for the price of one. I looked on my camera, but apparently I didn't get any photos of this one, bummer!
The second finish for the week is a baby quilt. The piecing was so-so, several seams opened up on me as I was quilting. But it turned out great. I did feathers in the brown outer border and in the four colored triangles. For the beige background I did a meandering swirl all over. It really added some nice texture.
I used five colors of thread for this one, to match the fabrics. Lots of thread changes, but the end result was worth it.
Didn't manage to be very productive over my two days off though and that's a bummer. I was on such a great roll for the first week or so, and just really bushed this week. So, hopefully I can head home and get another of the Sylvia quilts done - they go quickly, and get moving again! I'm working on sketching ideas for the next two. One is a monkey wrench and the other is a BOM patchwork. Should both be fun.
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