No Progress

No UFO progress to report this week on Jo' link up. I did get the quilt finished last week into the mail.  And thanks to the USPS, the recipient has her gift and sent me a picture of it on her bed.
The expedition to the USPS took most of Friday as I had a bunch of errands to run over the border I had been saving up to do on the same trip.
 Including a trip to my US mail box to pick up my first Quilted Twins orders, and a Quiltville order ( got the new ruler) and a Missouri Star order.
You would think with all this new stuff to play with my weekend would have been spent sewing. You would think wrong. We had an overnight guest and a BBQ to go to Saturday. Then a trip in to  see my in-laws Sunday.
But I eventually did get to unpack my new fabric and tools and play with them. So, since I have no quilts to show, here’s the goodies I’ve acquired.
From the Quilted Twins (https://www.quiltedtwins.com). They have become my new addiction. Love their fabric selection and I have downloaded 3 of Becky's quilt patterns and started cutting one.


Aren’t the doggies great? And they are huge. I don’t know what I’ll do with them but couldn’t resist. Maybe a pillowcase for my dog loving niece.

This is the new ruler from Bonnie, along with the highlight tabs. Looking forward to using this with the blocks for a new Smokey Mountains quilt I’ve started cutting.


The mailbox over the border hasn’t been the only source of fabric lately. The fabric diet I tried to put myself on has totally collapsed, (just like the food diets). The thrift shops have been calling my name and I have accumulated a bunch of shirts that I am in the process of cutting up. Plus this big piece of what feels like flannel and will make a great backing.



And the sewing group I joined at the seniors centre had a fabric giveaway the last meeting before the summer break. I picked up these pieces then.





While going through the pictures for this post I did find a quilt picture I haven’t shown yet. I took the opportunity of the batting hanging up waiting for Orange Crush to work on my layout for Jo’s Bohemian Rhapsody that I am doing for my niece’s wedding gift. 
It is all taken down and labelled by rows, ready to sew together.

A Finish

And I even had it finished by Wednesday.... then got busy and forgot to blog. That's been happening a lot lately. So much socializing going on, that I am not on my computer. And that is a good thing. Some of it planned, like having my kids here for July 1st dinner, some of it not, like friends calling and inviting us over for a swim that turns into dinner and goes on until 11 pm.

But back to quilting. Orange Crush is finished and is going in the mail today for a little cousin in New York. It was her Bat Mitzvah two weeks ago and while we couldn't attend due to another commitment the next day in Toronto, my husband wanted to give her a quilt just as we had for the cousin in San Francisco.  So here it is.

The pieced border had me tearing my hair out for a while. Since I had made mine a different size than Bonnie's the numbers she give didn't correspond and I had to do some high level math. And in the end I had to fudge a little. The bottom border doesn't have the four patch corner, instead it has the flying geese block continuing to the end. That was because the side border had to end with a half goose there. No one will know it wasn't supposed to be that way, and I'm too far away to be telling anyone.
And Garden Party is together and waiting to have the edges trimmed up and borders put on.
Amidst all the fun and outdoor time some quilting happened. Now to link up with  Jo's Ufo Update