Finished Border on the Fan Quilt

I finished the borders on the Fan Quilt.

Ahhh.  I like looking at it.

The fabric is delish. I love buying kits; I could never put these fabrics together on my own!

Kitten has a new collar, but try as I might, I could not get her photogenic side(the side with the eye) and the little tiny buttons on the collar in the same frame.  Maybe next time.

Did I say I was going to Mom's?  I should be there now.  I discovered I can write a series of blog entries and then have them post while I am at work, or even at Mother's.  So I wrote this Sunday when I had time, but you should see it on Thursday.  I love learning new things!

How many lives does Kitten have left?

I love my sweet Kitten.

I worked on the fan quilt last night.  I got two of the columns put together.

See the little bit of piping on the left.  I sewed that seam three times.  Once without the piping, then once without bobbin thread and then the final time.  I was up really late.

And there are things I would change, if I ever did it over.

And today we delivered Lilly to Bulloch Hall in anticipation of the show that begins on March 12.  This is the first time I've put anything in a show, and the first time, that I can remember, putting on a hanging sleeve. I made sure to put all the pertinent information on an extra label, since the quilt label only has my first name and the quilt name.  I can't wait to the Bulloch Hall decorated up with the quilts!

The basted center seam on the sleeve gets pulled out and then there is plenty of room for whatever hanging mechanism the show uses.  I was told Lilly will not hang, so I didn't need to do the sleeve for this show.  Perhaps she will hang somewhere in the future.

I hope people like her.

Kitten looks okay.  Right?

Blocks done

I couldn't remember what I was doing last weekend, so I ended up cutting too many of one piece and not enough of another so wasted some fabric.  That's a scary thing to do when the kit is a few years old, but I had bought extra blue fabric when I found it at Quilter's Station in Lee's Summit, Mo.

I love the fabrics in this quilt, but I have to say my piecing job is not terrific.  If I had to do it over I believe I would either appliqué the fan onto a background square and/or paper piece the fan.

At least the blocks are done.

And the Oscar show is nearly done too.

I'd better go catch the last of it.

See you all next weekend!

My Janome Still Works!

I reunited the old Janome with it's power cord and actually turned it on and sewed this weekend.  It was a Silver Thimble weekend, but I only got to stay a couple of hours.  I got started on a fan quilt kit I'd bought at Share the Spirit Quilt Shop in Duluth before it closed a couple of years ago.  When I'd bought it, the kit was short on aqua background fabric so I purchased yellow.  Later, at Quilter's Station in Lee's Summit, MO, I found the same aqua.  I wasn't sure which color I'd use until I laid the fan out on both:

The yellow and then the aqua

Maybe a combination?

Time to think about it. 

I think better in Tony Lamas.