The last bird in the nest finishing high school

So very hard to believe that our last little birdie is graduating in just over a week!  She had to present her Senior Project yesterday and I really enjoyed seeing it.  She had 3 people on her judging board that she knew well, so that helped with any nerves.  And she really rocked it!  I was very impressed with her speaking skills, and I'm a pretty harsh critic in that department ;)  She knew she would get an A, she had prepared well and had a good presentation.  So her real goal was to get an A+.   And we found out today that she did - WOO HOO!  She really knocked it out of the ballpark quite soundly!  There were five judges, the top and bottom score are thrown out, the remaining three are then averaged for your score.  She found out it didn't matter:  all five judges scored her at 100% - WOW!  Needless to say, she is quite over the moon.

I'll have to come back and insert a picture - she took my camera out of the car to download pix on her computer, so it's not here at work today.  This was just a great way to wrap up her High School years and a suitable reward for 4 years of hard work.

In quilting news, Polly Pocket got her binding taken off and new binding put on - and put on straight this time!  There is a nasty bulge where the final seam is joined, and I may try to work on it once she's home from the Minnesota show.  But it looks light years better than it did.  I went ahead and did this because there are only 7 quilts in her category at this show, so maybe, just maybe, a third place ribbon could be in our grasp.   But it would never be in our grasp with that wiggly, sad binding, lol.  Youngest DD was a doll and helped me reblock it, so I think I've sent it on its' way in the best possible condition (although, perhaps crammed in a smallish box to try to save some shipping, so I'll pray for wrinkles that fall out quickly!!)

I think I'll rebind the Wedding Memories quilt too, before the Shipshewana show.  It somehow ended up at about a 1/4 inch on front, but more like 3/8ths on back.  Pretty noticeable, AND, when we block it - the pins are in the ditch on the front and not seen - but they are going right through the middle of the binding on back and leaving a polka dot trail of pin holes -*sigh*.

Now if I could just get that customer quilt going that has been on the frame since January!  I need it out of the way to get DD's t-shirt quilt on there and maybe at least quilted by her party, don't forsee getting it bound by then, but at least pieced and quilted would be good!  She ended up with 25 shirts, but they are very mixed in colors so I'm struggling with what to use for sashing.  But we did find 3 yards of a FABULOUS print that will be used in the backing - it speaks to her love for art, which is only represented by one shirt on the front, so this is a nice touch.

There is a nice border print in the collection too, but I haven't figured out how that could be incorporated.  Maybe I'll just get a fat quarter and piece up a really cool label?

For now, I better get back to folding and taping the newsletter here at work, so I can keep my job so I can earn money to buy fabric LOL