Well, I finished one but not the one I was working on when I last posted!  LOL  I got done with the top for my son's camping quilt and had some squares leftover so threw them together into 9 patch blocks and added plain squares and made this 60 x 74 couch throw... fairly large for a couch throw but could be used for extra blanket on a bed too.  I did not use a batting.. it has a heavy flannel backing and the top is made out of heavy materials as well, polyesters etc... so I just tied it and pulled the backing around to the front and machine stitched it down... very easy and quick and now that it is out of the way I am working on hand stitching the binding on my fan quilt which I machine quilted this week.  That should be done sometime today and will post a pic of that as well....THEN I can get back to my son's camping quilt!  I just need to tie it and bind it! 

This is what I have been working on.  I actually put the fan blades together a couple years ago and it was a kit and I was so dissatisfied with the way they came out I shoved them in a box and forgot about them for awhile!  LOL  Anyway, I pulled them out and worked on them again.. managed to square them up and because I'm not really into applique I used lace to stitch them onto the background... I got the squares all put together Friday and Saturday I spent most of the day zig zag stitching ALOT of places where the first stitches didn't take hold!  My fault!  Should have used a wider stitch.  anyway today I pin basted it and now its ready to quilt.  Don't know if I am ready to quilt it though!  LOL  I've never tried machine quilting one this big...it is 72 x 86... I've never quilted anything larger than a couch throw so this will definitely be a new experience for me.  I usually tie quilts this big but because of the pattern I decided it just would not look good tied.  The dark color is actually burgandy...it shows up really dark in this photo! 

I started this quilt a few months back and after getting it sandwiched and tied decided to do the prairie point border.... well, I  made the prairie points and this being my first time attempting them I panicked and set it aside for a couple months!  I pulled it out Tuesday and finished it yesterday.  It is bright and bold on both the front and back!  I found that "surfer" material and it wasn't quite wide enough so added black to each side.  The prairie points are the same yellow and black as in the quilt top.  It wasn't as much fun to work with the ppts as I thought it would be!  I will probably never make them again!  LOL  I am just happy to be done with it...  I only made it because I wanted to try the double pinwheel pattern...when I ran out of material after finishing the squares I had to come up with a sashing pattern to set them off and make it the size I wanted.   Being that I was planning to keep this for myself anyway, I attached the backing by machine...it doesn't look so awful and I'm not that fussy anyway!  LOL

The daughter of a friend of mine had a baby boy May 1st and she brought the baby up yesterday for all to see and at 10:00 yesterday morning I decided I shouldn't go without bringing a gift so I threw this together rather quickly.....took me a couple hours but I used the birthing method to avoid having to put a binding on it!  LOL  Cheated!  The color is actually blue...don't know why it showed up green in the picture!

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Well, while going thru a box the other day I ran into these HST's already stitched together so squared them up, added a border and binding and made a topper out of it!  Something to do!  Like I don't have any UFO's!  LOL

Well, finished the third panel....I again used the birch bark material but this time used it as a border and then used black for binding...however...I should have only used a single layer as the material was a little heavy and it made the corners difficult so they aren't very sharp.  This one is for another sister who has a springer named "Jack"  Other than finishing this I have two quilt tops done ... a couch throw size which will be machine quilted and a double size quilt which I will tie....I'm keeping busy!

This is the seond of three that I am quilting for friends and family that requested them.  They are kind of fun to quilt!  Finished this one last night and have the binding left on the third!  Have DGD today so not getting much done today so might not finish that one til tomorrow! 

This is the first of three panels I am quilting for some people who requested them.  You can't see the quilting very good in this picture and you can't see the birch bark material I used for the binding very well either but I am happy with the way it turned out.  I also have been busy with another quilt but when I went to put the borders on it I had some trouble so set that aside and decided to get some of these smaller projects out of the way....hopefully when I go back to the quilt things will go better!

Spent the weekend (opening fishing here in Wisconsin) camping...got to take DGD with us for one night...had a blast!  Caught lots of fish and had a fish fry Saturday night.  Since we got back its done nothing but rain and my lawn needs mowing desparately!  Guess that has to wait!  So I am busy quilting in the mean time!!  Hope you are all keeping busy....haven't had a chance to read any postings but will try to do that in the next couple days and catch up with what you are all up to!

Well, I finished the binding on this yesterday so its ready for delivery today!  She has seen it and liked it alot which always makes a person feel so much better!

An added note..........My cat Tinker came back this morning!!!!  I was SO excited when I opened the door to let the dog out and the cat came running in!!!!  I just squealed!!!  He is right now asleep at my feet!!!  I'm so happy!!!  I asked him where he had been all week but he wouldn't tell me....guess that will always be his little secret!!!  LOL
Today I am going to work on the Aunt Betty's Attic quilt.....hoping to get the squares all together today!  Have a great weekend all!!!

I think I may have mentioned in an earlier post that my sister had "commissioned me to make her quilts for each season...well, her spring one has been hanging on her rack for a couple months now and I thought it was time to get her summer one done... I finished the top today!..this is a pic of the finished top...still have to pin baste and quilt it...will start on that tomorrow.  The first row depicts the summer fruits and vegetables...the second depicts their farming activities and the third their recreational activities... thats supposed to look like my BIL in the boat sleeping with his cowboy hat and boots on!  LOL  It was fun to make!  I will post some closeup pics so you can see the details better.

I had a busy past week...got all my cleaning done and the sewing put away and started food preparations on Saturday.

Here is a picture of the cake I made for Easter.  The day didn't start out all too well but we ended up having a very nice dinner at least.  I got a call right away in the morning, my mother was hospitalized...they will be running tests today to find out whats going on.  She collapsed and had some type of a seizure.  They will be doing an angiogram today.

But I had 8 people for dinner...two didn't show up...no phone call or anything so I was a little preturbed by that as well.  After dinner my kids stuck around and did some 4 wheeling thru the woods, they had a great time.  DGD even has her own little wheeler so that was a treat to watch her ride.  She ended up spending the night and is still sleeping now.  This week I probably won't get much sewing timie in but maybe toward the end of the week I can start bringing the mess back out into the dining room again!  Hope you all had a great Easter.

This was a mystery quilt I made and finished up for my sister....she picked it up Saturday morning.