SHQ Show & Tell, 2 totally finished QoV's, a new bag from Pat

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Michael headed out for an early morning ear appointment on Tuesday (7/28), while I got the rest of Iris’s Easter quilt loaded:

then loaded a new design onto my machine and started stitching. 

While that was stitching out, I got my binding machine set up and started binding on one of my QoV’s:

I have 3 QoV’s of all different patterns and I would like to take them in next week for show and tell at quilting….we’ll see how I do.  I spent all day on those 2 things, and after Michael left for the movies in the evening, I headed upstairs to knit and watch TV.

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I video chatted with Janice on Wednesday morning (7/29) while Michael was out golfing here at SCCL.  Janice and Dennis are pretty well settled into their home-away-from home (a 2 bedroom apartment they are renting while they house hunt in Connecticut) and I even got a virtual tour of Janice’s sewing room :~).  The rest of the day was a repeat of Tuesday…quilting on Iris’s Easter quilt, and working on binding.  I have a goal with QoV quilts…..I would like to take 3 finished QoV quilts into quilting for show and tell next week.  This really is a totally reasonable goal…..2 of the quilts are quilted, needing only labeling and binding.  And the top is done on the 3^rd quilt.  All of the labels are stitched out and all of the bindings made…I really have no excuse NOT to have these done by next week, except laziness  :~).

I got the binding all finished on one side of the first quilt and moved onto the second side.  By dinnertime, I finished the quilting on the Easter quilt, AND my binding was done and I had a TOTALLY FINISHED QUILT:

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Michael packed my car up (what will I do next week when he is away on his golfing trip???) on Thursday (7/30) and I headed off to quilting.  It was charity day and we all worked on Pocket Prayer Quilts.  I couldn’t figure out why, but by 11 AM my butt was SO VERY SORE…then I thought about it.  On a normal day, I sew a bit, get up and iron a bit and so on….but this day I sat for 2 solid hours just sewing!!!  Not only was my butt very sore, but it took me a bit of time to stand up!!!  But, we all had a good time and a lot of laughs and still had some beautiful show and tell:

-another quilt top from the class I taught...this one is TOTALLY in my colorway!!

When I got home around 2:30, I just sat and read my book for the rest of the day.

Pat stopped by in the afternoon....to drop something off:

Isn't it absolutely GORGEOUS?!?!? We bartered for her last quilt....instead of paying me, she made this travel bag for me and it is PERFECT!!!!!!!!

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I was up early Friday morning (7/31) to get a backing loaded for the 3^rd QoV quilt.  I didn’t start quilting on it as the 108’’ wide backing was thoroughly wrinkled, so I sprayed it with water and wound it on my leader and left it to let the wrinkles relax. 

I spent the rest of the day working on labeling and binding my second quilt….

and once again, by dinnertime, it was done: 

Two down and only 1 to go by next Thursday….easy-peasy….right?

And 10 years ago....

-Food and Fiber Floozie: quilting on patriotic pinwheel done, new patriotic top done

-Food and Fiber Floozie: quilts to be bound, lunch, new customer quilt, Linda's quilt loaded

-Food and Fiber Floozie: Cookie & Elsie a trois, fleece blanket

-Food and Fiber Floozie: garden flowers, French toast tutorial

*** My brain says ALASKA!!!! My heart says CARIBBEAN!!! My wallet says GO AROUND THE BLOCK!!! ***

*** I have a lot to be thankful for....but I'm going to give a special shout out to elastic. ***

*** I ran for the first time with my FITBIT on....it asked me if my life was in danger, or if tacos were on sale for a $1 again. ***