SHQ Veteran's Luncheon, Totally finished quilt - Sally

dreamsoaps
7 hours ago
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What a loser....nod off Don........8647!

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Tuesday morning (11/11) I was back early at the long arm, stitching away more rows on the emergency quilt.

Iris came for her first official quilting lesson:

and got all of her strips cut for bindings on her 2 quilts and got most of them sewn together and pressed. She only got to stay for about 2 hours, but little by little we are getting these quilts done. I continued to quilt during the day until one of my customers came to pick up her quilts….AND BROUGHT ME ANOTHER ONE!!! I am not getting ahead here people!

Anyway, by dinnertime, the quilting was done:

and I had a label for the quilt (my second one as my machine tried to eat the first one).

My honey left for the movies and I relaxed and knit on his sweater for the rest of the evening..

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I headed to the studio early on Wednesday (11/12) to try to get a jump on the next quilt. I am not looking forward to this quilt at all….as the backing was no where near big enough for me to use. I asked my customer to sew strips of fabric on all 4 sides to make it bigger…but the dimensions of the ''real'' fabric backing are so close to the top that I am going to be tense the entire way through quilting this quilt. As I was pinning the backing on…I started to think about it and I believe this same thing happened the last time this person brought me a quilt. I only get a quilt from them every year or so, so I didn’t immediately remember it. Anyway, I have decided that if it happens again, I will suggest another long armmer to this person as I do not need the added stress that doing this quilt will bring.

I only got the back loaded before it was time to video chat with Janice. We talked a bit longer than usual…and after that I had some breakfast, and finally got back to loading the quilt around 11:30.

I was determined to get the quilting:

finished by dinnertime…and I did:

And I also got the binding put on 1 side of the quilt which will be sent to sister and brother in law:

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Thursday (11/13) was our Veteran's luncheon at SHQ:

I absolutely love this day as we all get there early….get all set up…then have a chance to sit around and talk :~).

We gave out 4 quilts today:

and everything was just lovely. I was home by 2 PM and was absolutely beat!

I ended up napping in the living room for a bit before heading once again to the studio….I got the binding all done on Sally's quilt for yet another TOTALLY FINISHED QUILT: