THIRD FINISH OF THE YEAR!!!!

It's only the second finish I have posted about it, the other is on it's way to the recipient and so I can't show pictures yet!

 

Since I had the quilting done, I could attach the binding!!

 

I did machine stitch the binding, but will definitely be doing it differently next time (but still by machine ;) )

 

And I got the quilt done!!!  I am SO excited!!

I am linking up to Richard & Tanya's link a Friday finish.

Quilting

Here is Celtic Solstice on the long arm machine!!

 

I just did a meander, with some swirls.

 

I love how accomplished I feel finishing a quilt on a long arm!

TOP IS DONE!!!!

 

I am SO excited to have finished my Celtic Solstice top!!!! I LOVE the borders that were picked out! I cannot WAIT to get it quilted! I have decided on a back, I just need to put it together.

Sit n stitch April 29

 

Pieces of my bowties, I have been working on these a lot, so they are kind of slowing down (since I don't have as many.  I want to count them up, but I know I am no where near being done!

I sewed some HST for my pinwheels for my quilt I am calling scraptacular.

And 16 patches to go with the pinwheels.

 

And this is what I decided to use for the border of my Celtic Solstice quilt.  I cannot WAIT to show pictures of it!! But it's too big for me (and I want a nice picture!) So when my husband gets home Thursday I will make him hold it!

I am linking up to work in progress Wednesday.

Celtic solstice

 

I got the top done!! Well minus the borders.  I am not sure what I will do for borders.  I am thinking about a thinner green border, then a wider purple border.

Celtic solstice

I finished the top!! (Well minus the borders!)

Sit n stitch

This isn't the exact picture from last night, but it's what I was working on. I need a LOT more square blocks.

I came home and Minnie was ready to play!

I sewed at home, while skyping with my husband last night. I'm working on sewing the Celtic solstice rows into a top, and borders for it. 

I decided to do a smaller layout, and add more borders to get the desired size. 

I am linking up with feline Friday

Sit n stitch

Every Tuesday for the past few weeks I have been going to a local quilt shop that does a sit n stitch every Tuesday.  These are my pictures from *last* Tuesday, things have been kind of crazy I haven't had time to write about what I've done!

I love having the table that my mother in law gave me! It makes things SO handy!

I brought Celtic Solstice to work on! it's flying now that I am only putting blocks together into rows!! I was going to do 7 x 9 layout, but those blocks took SO much work, I am just doing 5 x 7 and I will add borders as necessary to make it big enough. 

Sit n stitch

A local quilt shop (that I JUST found out about) was doing a sit n stitch.  I decided to go by last night.

I had started parts of these at home, but I finished these leaders and enders.

And I worked on a few of these (I think I got about 3 done).  I am not sure if you can tell how small they are. They finish at 5"!

And here is my progress on my celtic solstice!

I am linking up with Work in Progress Wednesday!

Weekend sewing

I feel SO productive!!  This weekend I finished a quilt (finished the top, the quilting and I put the binding on). Although I realized later I forgot to put a label on it. I plan on adding one this week. I cannot wait to share this quilt! But it's a gift, so nothing yet :(

I also made 16 bowtie blocks (love them as a leader/ender!) 

I think I might start sewing them into twosies & foursies soon. 

I also spent some time on Celtic solstice. 

I like this picture better than the cropped one 

I feel like you can see the pattern more when you step away. I'm not done with all the pieces, but I really wanted to start putting some blocks together. I'm in love!

We also stopped at Jo-Ann's (we only needed 1 thing) but saw calicoes were 50% off. 

I bought these for a fall table runner. 

And a valentines day one (I know I'm late for this year ;) )

All in all it was a great week end (and not just because of the sewing!!!)

 I am linking up with FNSI since I did quite a bit on Friday night :)

Friday night sewing

I got SO much done tonight! Wish I could share more pictures.

I finished a quilt top. And started quilting it. I hope to finish it soon (maybe this weekend?)

I've been working on Celtic solstice. I have pieces that I'm starting to put together blocks but there's not enough for me to take pictures. 

Tomorrow I'm working on finishing the quilt and possibly working on a table runner. 

Hopefully more pictures to come! 

Celtic solstice clue #3

Half square triangles! I love these!  This has taken me so long to photograph because I have been working on sewing them, but haven't cut them apart and pressed them.

I'm going to wait until I've finished all of them to put the pinwheels together. Just to make sure I have enough variety!

 

I'm about half way done sewing these!! I love them!! they're so fun! and they look so great with everything else!

Work in Progress Wednesday

I have been able to work on a lot of things lately. . .just little bits and pieces!

Bow tie blocks. . .I can't remember how many of these I have.  I recently went through and put them in a box because I didn't have room for each step and the finished ones!

Celtic solstice! still chipping away at that! Not all the way done, but I do have a partial block layout I can do!!

I am linking up with WIP Wednesday

I am also linking up with Quilt fabric Tuesday

Celtic solstice clue #4

Four patches.

Pretty simple!  I love having a scrap system, I was able to go to my strip bin and just pull out fabrics for this!!

I only have about 40 of these finished, I have some twosies that need to be sewn into the full 4 patches.

You can click the "celtic solstice" tag and see all my other posts :)

I am linking up to Bonnie's linkup here

Celtic solstice clue #2

Chevrons!!

I have almost 100 done!!! They were tedious but are SO cute!

I have started on parts of the other clues, but I like to have a majority of this done before I move on to the next one.

Celtic Solstice Clue #1 half way there!

 

I have started clue #1!! Using the tri recs ruler, which I got on a good sale at Jo-Ann's after Thanksgiving.

I am not in love with any of them yet. . .All the scrappy-ness is kind of blowing my mind, but I know it will turn out awesome, as do all my scrappy quilts.

I am about 90% done with the purple centers.  The neutrals about 50%!

Celtic solstice - my colors

I didn't end up doing Easy street this year like I had originally wanted to do.  But I am doing Celtic Solstice.  And even though I haven't had enough time to be in my sewing room much, I have managed to find enough time to start and have a good start on this quilt!

Bonnies colors were Neutrals, Yellow/gold, oranges, greens & blues.  I do not have a lot of yellow/gold or oranges, so I have changed my colors.

My neutrals will be neutral.
My yellow/gold will be pink
My oranges will be purple
My greens will be greens
My blues will be blues.

Although I don't have much in the way of neutrals!  I will have to see if I can find some remnants at Jo-Ann's.

More later!! I am going to sew some!