UFO FINISHED!

I am so happy to have this UFO finished!  This was my travel project when I retired in 2009 and I started it in December on our first trip after I retired when we traveled by car to Florida.  I had my new (to me) Featherweight along and worked on these blocks in the motel at night.  The name of it is "Scrappity Do Dah" and it was a free pattern that came in a quilting magazine promotion.  It measures 88" x 98" to be a generous queen size.  

Scrappily Do Dah

Here are some close ups of different areas of the quilt so you can see some of the fabrics and the quilting.

Backing fabric has tiny buttons on it.

Another UFO is almost finished.  I started this one a few years ago when Barristers Block had a sew-a-long.  I didn't finish it then, but this year she had another SAL, so I got it out and now I'm quilting it.  It's a Bullseye quilt with raw edges that will fray after I wash it, which I will do after I'm done quilting and binding it.  I'm about half way finished with the quilting.  First I stitched in the ditches and now I'm quilting around the circle (bulls eye) and adding a leaf shape in the corners.  I think that will be enough quilting.  I might quilt feathers in the border.

I'm almost finished with this table runner that I'm making for my Etsy shop.  I just need to sew the binding to the back.  

I bought the backing fabric a toile with birds on it while on a shop hop a few weeks ago in Grandma's Quilt Shop located in Dallas, Oregon.  It's a small town about 20 miles from where I live now.

A week ago I got lucky at an estate sale where there was literally tons of fabric, quilt kits, cross stitch kits and yarn for sale.  I purchased a bunch of fabric for $1/yard as well as kits that I am listing in my Etsy shop.  I'm still not finished listing items from this sale.

Happy quilting!

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

I wanted to get Scrappity-Do-Dah off my design wall, so I finished piecing it together.  I thought it was going to be 18 blocks across (90") and 20 blocks long (100").  I kept sewing and sewing.  It seemed like it was going on forever!  

Well, it turns out it is 24 blocks long - which makes it 120" long!!  Even at 100" it was big enough to tuck in the pillows.  I guess I got carried away!  

I also have some blocks that I will sew into the backing.

I could take a couple rows off and make it 110" long.

It was too big for DH to hold up, so I draped it over the couch and coffee table for this picture.  Don't forget, I started this 5 years ago on a trip to Florida.  I'm going to put it in the closet for a while before I quilt it.

Is anyone having problems with Blogger?  I can't get this to post.  I had problems yesterday also and had to re-type all my words.  *Later*   I think it will publish now.  I had to copy all of it, save it, then paste it on top of what was there, do a little editing and now I think it's OK.