Sewing day finish

 I spent yesterday sewing with friends, and got several things finished, including the Asian Bits and Pieces trio. I am happy to have these off of the shelf and ready to hang or bead, still haven't decided about the beading. When I pieced them, I wanted three different size pieces that would go together using the face blocks I had purchased. I have also made pillows out of these to match an asian inspired Circle and Spin quilt for my daughter, Rachel.

I also hemmed a t-shirt, and pieced the back for my daughter Wendy's new quilt so it is ready to load on the machine. We found a beautiful purple batik for the backing. It's easier to cut a large back like this at the store....they have big tables. At home I always have trouble with it sliding off the counter on one end while I measure from the other. I think I will quilt the string pieced quilt first, and then load this one.

 Diana got lots more Wonky Stars finished and started putting the rows together. Dianne finished her Lotus quilt top...lots of flowery goodness!

There were others there, but I didn't get any more pictures because I forgot to take them until the end.

Today is another Kids Camp making the Cobblestone Pillow. Should be fun!

The Asian Trio and the 3D Cubes, continued....

 I finished quilting the asian trio and the cubes quilt yesterday. This is a better picture of how I joined them to quilt them at the same time. I had the face panels, but purchased the other fabrics on a trip to visit my daughter in Seattle. I wanted to make something to hang on a wall together, but not in one piece.

I planned on hand quilting it and adding beading, but that hasn't happened in the 5 years since I started it, so I decided to finish it with all over quilting. I might still add some beads.

 The little 3D cube quilt was a model (in strips) for a class I taught.

 Here is the back. I like using up pieces of fabric and batting for backs when I can. The plaid is on the back of the cubes and the batik is on the back of the asian trio.

It was pretty easy to cut these apart, though I was checking twice to make sure they were straight. It would be very noticable if they were off and sometimes there is a little distortion from the quilting.

 These pieces are ready to bind. I need to find some black around here...I know I have some somewhere...

 If I would've had more of the fabric I used around the edges, I would've bound with that. But I used it all on of it on this, so I decided on a yellow binding to bring out the brighter colors. I added a sleeve on the back while I bound it and it is ready to hang!

I spent the rest of yesterday sewing string blocks and have them sewn into rows, so I will have a quilt soon! I have to do some pattern writing this morning, so maybe I'll sew after that.

A little cube quilt and a trio.....

I made this little trio of asian quilts about 5 years ago. I made three separate pieces, the idea being that I would hang them together, but they wouldn't be joined. I planned on hand quilting them and embellishing them with beads. As you can see, that hasn't happened, so they were next on the 'finish it or dump it' pile. I sewed them together with strips in between so that it would be easier to load on the quilt machine. They really aren't very big. Then I sewed the little 3D Tumbling Blocks quilt that I finished the other day to it with a strip in between. I didn't have a backing fabric big enough for both that I liked, so I pieced two backs together too.

By now you're thinking, what is she doing again? I forgot to take a picture of the 2 quilts sewn together...the trio was smaller so I had to add a piece on the end so they were the same length. I figured if I connected them I could quilt both at the same time. (Of course, doing all that piecing together might've taken some time too....)

Here they are as I'm loading them, you can see the asian trio is to the left, the tumbling blocks to the right.

I was trying to use up smaller pieces of batting that were left over too, so ended up using 2 different pieces, the one on the left is cotton, the one on the right is poly.

It's almost finished, the dark green with leaves is the dummy fabric I put on the end. This is working well as far as quilting it goes, I just feel sad that I am quilting right over those faces. I still might try to do some hand work on them, but finished is better than it sitting around gathering dust, right?