Yes.....from 7:30 AM until NOW (11:00 PM), {{minus a 2-hour dinner break}}....
It was GLORIOUS GLORIOUS GLORIOUS!
Ready to see it all!?!?! :D
The day started with binding. LOTS of binding. First up: Star Path - QOV Mystery #28
And it didn't take very long for me to reach my first snafu of the day :\ Hm.....tension! (
AGAIN! Remember that post not too long ago about tension?) I re-threaded everything...and moments later, my thread broke. Hmm.....someone wasn't happy.
Alright lil' lady! I'll give you a thorough cleaning, if you insist!
Cleaned, oiled......... and we were back rolling :) with BEAUTIFUL stitches and a softer hummmmmm...... She was happy again!
And don'tcha hate it when this happens......??
No biggy.... leaned over and grabbed another random red 2.5" strip from the strip bin....
Didn't even clip the threads; just kept toodling along to add the additional red strip and kept going on my merry way.
And did NOT think ahead! Duh! I should have trimmed up the binding a bit as to NOT hit a seam in the corner turn. Oh well.......
Star Path (65" x 75") -- The first of the day; DONE!
Then, after a coffee refill, I pulled out Old Glory for the next binding session....
Really Amy!??!!???! TWO quilts with short binding??!!?
Oh well......I wasn't about to be deterred! I grabbed another strip....NOT REMEMBERING to cut down what was on the quilt! so the seam met in the corner : AGAIN!
Old Glory (55" x 69.5")
Whoo-hoo! The biggest (only?) goals of the day: Accomplished! Before Noon, even :) These two will be hitting the mail tomorrow on their way to Karen; Wisconsin's QOV representative.
And since I was on a binding roll:
Star Harbor (59" x 73") was also finished up! Wahooooooo! THREE finishes in one morning! I wasn't sure about the gold binding at first..... However, it framed it all quite nicely, if I may say so :)
And all complete---WITH labels! BEFORE NOON! (I think-----it's all kind of a haze to me now)
So.... wow! Three finishes.....what to do next, right??!?!?
Start a new project, of course!!!! Ohhh....... I blame
Andee and
Andra for this one! They've twisted my sewing arm! The three of us are working out some unit swaps for this......
With Andee on Facebook chat, I spent my afternoon working on some 9-patches and 4-patches. Not finished with either pile... but a good start.
And then..........HOLD ME BACK!
The flying geese units! I have NEVER needed to make flying geese this ADORABLY small before!!! In fact, I didn't even hesitate to just snip off the bonus triangle without double-sewing! **GASP** Way too small! The trimmings were snipped into my (giveaway) crumb box. I don't crumb quilt, but I save them up and give them away once the box is full. Another person's trash..... :)
Around 4:30 in the afternoon, I excused myself from Andee (and Kathy), and made dinner. Tacos tonight. Usually a big hit with my family :)
And then.....BACK AT IT! But I was honestly about to close up shop; getting poooopered out!
And LOOOOOOOOOOOOK who ended up joining in my evening!
First, Bonnie is the small video on the middle-left of the screen. What???? She's leaving for Bali TOMORROW!!!! I can't believe she Quilt-cammed tonight.
And then.......after some chatting with
Nancy on Facebook, she called me up for a video chat. What a blast!!!!
Little did she KNOW that I keep my camera with me at ALL times in the quilt room!!!!
A second wind hit me..... and I quilted the evening away.
By 11:00 PM EST, Bonnie bid us goodnight. Nancy stuck around for a bit longer to finish up the last few of her 9-patch parts before heading out.
And then...........
SILENCE!!!
DEAD SILENCE!!
After hours of SOMEONE with me in my quilt room via technology...... it was eerily silent. I had finished up the last of my prepped flying geese units and was trimming off the triangles.... so... it was REALLY silent! I hadn't turned the music back on when Nancy and I ended our call...the only noise was coming from the hum of the light above me and the slicing of my scissors.
BUT! I have 252 flying geese done; separated into 3 different sets of 12 geese; my plan right now is to keep creating 3 sets; one I'll keep, one will go to Andra and one to Andee.
How many does the quilt need?? SIX HUNDRED! I think I spent about 8 hours alone on these geese today/tonight. Quite tedious..... But after Bonnie mysteries....psht! This is SO do-able!
AND THEN!!! Just as I was about to turn everything off, I stood and saw my design wall.
See the gaps!?!?!? I FINISHED the "C" blocks today as my leader-enders. Bonnie's timing is PERFECT to start a new leader-ender project: Spoolin' Around She said she would blog about that tomorrow morning with measurements before needing to get into Bali-mode. I can't wait!
I took the "A" and "B" blocks down from the wall... and joined them in with the "C" blocks.....
I just put them on the floor; haven't done any moving around of blocks yet.
No wonder I don't have much more in the way of blue scraps! Actually, I don't have a SINGLE blue 2.5" OR 2" strip left! (other than what I've set aside in my QOV strip bin).
So, there ya have it. My computer screen is showing 11:56PM right now. WOW! Almost an hour to write this post. I certainly will miss the leisurely schedule of summer! This week, I need to put in 16 hours at the school (flexible time), and then inservice is next Wednesday and Thursday. I still have a few days of summer left; and you can betcha that they will be filled :)
I hope hope hope you had a wonderful weekend!
but this task needed to get done all the same. 
. However, with a couple recent quilt-top finishes this week that had been in almost-finished stages, I really wanted to get a gauge of the status of all the other "things" down there. Ya know... to make plans and goals! 
