i know Denise would love it.

take a break.  they can sit and age ina "ready for binding" pile.

Probably can not see it in the picture:

1st row word JOY between misc letters

2nd....SPECIA no L  abuse quilt not wide enough maybe quilt it in

3rd.....FR__ND

4th.....QU_LT

5th...left over letters

Jo

Finally finished the quilt I loaded on the longarm June 12. It did not help being away for a good part if the Summer. Having a lunch break and the gonna load the next quilt. I just reached in the bin and grabbed the one on top. It is the bargello we all made at a retreat some years back. Not sure how I am gonna quilt it but I have a few ideas.

On a side note DBIL keeps asking when I was gonna finish the one I just finished. Told him I was gonna get it off the machine today, at which he said "You are gonna run outts stuff to work on." I just laughed and laughed. I assured him that was not gonna happen. The ready to go bin has 12 tops and there are more tops not to mention UFO's.

I do hope to get started on the binding soon.

now that's a cute idea!  I might just do that - those white spaces bother me a bit, that's why I started thinking about doing it as a tessellation

that turned out wonderful.  I love the texture created by the strings.  very nice.

Ami_Quilts (sewingupasto) said:

You are gonna run outts stuff to work on.

that is a good one.  It should be in the Laugh for the day thread.  he doesn't know many quilters does he - lol.

I think I am the only quilter he has ever known. He does ask a lot of questions and seems to like my quilts.

I took my 1st long arm class - it was pretty disappointing.  It was on ruler work, but she was very unorganized and didn't really seem to have a plan.  oh well, back to you tube videos and practicing.  I'm starting to worry about quilting my Christmas applique.  I want to do it, but I'm not sure if I can do much other than echo.  Wish you were closer.

another finished.  This was the 1st block I prepared and I did not line the flame though I did the cancel - I don't remember why.  And you could see the seams on the flame very well through the fabric.  Rather than remove it, I decided to applique another fabric over the top.  I'm not completely sure I'm happy with it but I'm going to leave it for now and see if it grows on me.  From a distance it looks fine but not particularly flame-like.

This leaves 3 blocks left to embellish plus the garland across the top that I haven't appliqued yet.  I think I need to start thinking about the sashing fabric.  In the original quilt it was a kind of olive green which worked well. but I don't think I have anything like it in my stash - greens can be so weird.