All done!

Thank you for all your encouragement in the machine quilting department.  My Christmas quilt is all quilted and bound and I am very pleased with my first effort.
I decided not to push my luck and try feathers in the borders just yet.  I tried some on practice sandwiches but I haven’t quite figured them out yet.  (Any tips on those are welcome!) Instead I did a free form overlapping drops kind of thing in the inner border and decided the narrow pieced outer border didn’t need any quilting.

Looking at it in my living room, I it actually fits in quite nicely with the rest of the decor.  Maybe it won’t be limited to Christmas after all. 


Back in January I did get around to quilting the pinwheel table runner but somehow never posted a picture.  




I’m enjoying crossing projects off the UFO list.  It wasn’t very long by most standards but it was really bothering me.  Knowing I had projects sitting unfinished kept me from enjoying new ones.  That’s just a personality quirk, I guess.  Anyhow, here’s where the list stands now:

1. Leaf quilt – needs basting and hand quilting
2. Swap quilt – need basting and machine quilting (still pondering quilting patterns for this one)
3. Churn dash table runner – machine quilting in progress
4. Hawaiian quilt pillow – hand quilting in progress
5. Canadiana quilt – have fabrics, design is taking shape on paper
6. Whimsy – do I even want to finish this anymore?

Almost there! I think once I finish #3 and #4 and get #1 basted I’ll be happy to start something completely new again. Or perhaps I’ll be inspired to try to fix all the problems in #6 after all (and trust me, these aren’t subtle!) .  We’ll see…