A Finished UFO

Way back in 2009 (okay, so maybe not "way" back, but long enough ago) I finished making this quilt top and had it quilted by a long arm quilter near me in 2010.  Well since then, I've had the binding made, but I just never got around to attaching it to the quilt. Well, I'm happy to say that this quilt is officially completed after a little motivation by the BMQG WIP challenge.

I took a few pictures this weekend at my parent's house of the quilt.  It's not quite King size, but it's slightly bigger than a queen size quilt.

I'm glad to have this one finished.  It had been sitting in a pile in my quilting room for too long.  Now, it's found a nice new home at my parent's house since it's more their color pallet than mine.

Vote for Autumn Comfort

I entered my Autumn quilt, Autumn Comfort, into the Quilting Gallery weekly contest.  Head on over and vote for my Autumn Comfort Quilt http://bit.ly/bhua8g

Here's a picture of the quilt before the border was added and before it was quilted.  

Autumn Quilt Quilted

If you remember a while back, I blogged about my autumn quilt.  This was a REALLY big quilt, bigger than a queen but not quite a king.  Too big for me to quilt on my machine.  So I sent it off to a local quilter to have an all over leaf pantograph quilted on it.  Well, I got it back right before Christmas, but just found time (and convinced my DH to help) to photograph the quilt.

It's not the whole quilt, but you get the idea.  Once the snow melts I hope to get a picture of the whole thing.

Here's a picture that shows some of the quilting.  It's quilted with a gold thread.

Now to bind this massive quilt.  I already have the binding prepared, I just need to attach it to the front and hand quilt it down to the back.  I have a feeling that the binding on this quilt won't be done for a little while.  We'll see.

Fabric Choices for New Quilt

This coming Saturday, KK, Lynn (a co-worker), and I are getting together for a quilting gathering.  We all decided to do the same pattern, a Bento Box.  I've been wanting to make one of these for a while and I thought this would be an easy quilt to make and wouldn't require a lot of concentration since we'll probably be gabbing the whole time.  

Here are my fabric choices.  What do you think?  I'm SOOOO excited about them.  It will be made with the navy batik and the bottom lime green batik with the top lime green as the border.  This will help meet one of my 2009 goals, to make a quilt using batiks.  I've always loved batiks, but have never really used them to make a big quilt.  I've only made a few small wall hanging with batiks.  

I'm thinking of doing some cutting prior to our gathering so that I can spend more time sewing.  I think KK was planning on doing the same thing.  Now I need to figure out what kind of baked good I want to make and bring since I promised I'd bring something.  It can't be chocolate, even though I'm a chocolate addict, because KK doesn't like chocolate (gasp).   

I've been working on my autumn quilt.  I just have two more sides of the border to add and I'll be done with the top.  Here's a little peek.  I hope to have the top done by the end of the week. 

Almost Done with the Autumn Quilt

I've been trucking along on the autumn quilt.  It's almost done!  I just have the borders left to do.  The inner border is the gold fabric, the middle border is the burnt orange, and the outer border is a leaf pattern with many of the colors featured in this quilt.  

Since this is going to be a queen size quilt, I think I'm going to send this one out to be quilted by someone with a long arm.  My co-worker has a friend who does long arm quilting professionally, so I might give her a try.  I'm thinking an all over pantograph with leaves in it.  

This quilt has really grown on me.  Initially I wasn't super fond of some of the colors (ok, just the burnt orange), but I'm really liking how this is coming out.  The pattern was very easy to do and I think it's really coming together visually very well.  

Autumn Quilt Progress

I made some progress on the autumn quilt tonight.  I didn't get as much done as I would have liked because I had some issues with my sewing table and then ran out of bobbin.  I figured that meant it was time to take a break for the night.  Up next is to finish the remaining 6 blocks that need the green frame and then it's on to adding a gold frame.  

Here's the border fabric for the quilt.  You can get a sense of where the colors in this kit came from and that it truly is an autumn quilt.

So here's the broken sewing table. My pedal usually goes on this platform, but as you can see by these pictures, the platform that usually lies a few inches from the ground broke off from the rest of the sewing table.  :(  I'm going to have the hubby take a look at this weekend to see if he can do something.  I really liked how this table had this platform because I'm so short and it allowed me to sit taller so that I'm at a better height to the table.

Autumn Quilt Kit

A few years ago I bought this quilt kit at an after Christmas sale at 50% off.  It looked like a pretty easy quilt, and the colors were really nice.  I decided that it was too cute and too good a deal to pass up.  Believe it or not, it was the first quilt kit I had ever purchased.  I much prefer to pick out my own fabric and deign the colors. That's half the fun of quilting anyway.  

When I got home, I realized I grabbed the wrong kit. :(  It was the same pattern, but had some slightly different fabrics.  I thought it was the same one, but it wasn't.  I had picked the package that was in better shape.  Because I wasn't too keen on the fabrics/colors in this quilt, it went into my pile of fabric and was forgotten for a while.  

Well, yesterday I pulled out the kit and decided that it was time to put this thing together.  There's one fabric in there that I would NEVER have picked.  It's a really burnt or rust colored orange. (seen below)  I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before, but orange has to be my least favorite color.  I like it with some other color combinations, but it just doesn't do much for me.  I thought about replacing the fabric with another one from my stash, but I realized that I would never use it in anything else, so why not use it now.

Here are a few pictures of my progress.  It calls for two more frames around the diamond and some sashing in between the 20 blocks.  It's definitely going to be an autumn quilt.

The next color to go on is a green, followed by a gold, then some deep gray sashing.  More on that later.