Let's Get Caught Up

I've been busy... apparently too busy to post updates :).  First off... Love Purple quilt is finally off the frame!!  I no longer love it, but that's ok because now it can go to Siren (local shelter for homeless people/families and for battered women and their children) for some child to curl up under and I'm sure they'll love it.  It's so soft and cuddly that I don't think any child will be able to resist it.

Above is the border that I couldn't seem to duplicate a second time, let alone 3 times.  So, I went with something else for the other three (see below).  I was at the point ( actually beyond the point) of ripping out the first border and redoing it again... nothing wrong with one border being different that the others.

Close up of some of the blocks

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OOPS!  I thought the quilt was complete in this pic... but the binding is missing.  Here's the binding in this next pic.  I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever see the end of the fabric I used for the binding.  Every time I think I'm using the last of it, I find more of it.  It's been used in three quilts that I can think of right off.  It wasn't the fabric I'd planned on using  for this quilt, but when it came  time to add the binding, of course, I couldn't find what I had selected and cut especially for the Love Purple until after I'd put this one on.

Now I have Ethel's batik quilt that will go to the VA hospital in Battle Creek next month on "Mo'e".  Here's a close up of the meandering in the blocks.

Here's the quilt on the frame. 

Close up of the border stitching... I have the exterior sides done... just need to finish the interior of the outer borders.  Then I have to do the inner border and the sashing which I hope to have done by Thursday so that I can hand it back to her for the binding.

This is my next project in the works.  It's Garden Quilt by Amy Bradley.  I'm doing two... one with pink background and one with white background.  The white background one will be mine - at least until I decide to pass it on; the pink one is for my granddaughter, Krista.

The shovel blocks are about 36" long... the next four blocks are about 7 1/2" square.

It's hard to tell but the 'water' coming out of the hose and the outlines around the pink print fabrics on the butterfly are done with Ricky Tim's Razzle Dazzle threads using 'bobbinwork'.

I'm not quite sure how I'm going to do the seeds on this block... I'm thinking french knots, but I'm not sure.  I maybe could use black beads???
Five blocks done - Nine more to go.

Oh, and I found what I'm going to make the grand(kid)s and great(grandkid)s for their annual Christmas ornament from me.  It's a cute felt penquin (http://www.bhg.com/christmas/crafts/make-christmas-ornaments-with-felt/#page=11)Some will be in the traditional/normal black & white, but since I don't have a lot of black felt on hand, I thought I'd do some in other colors...like pink or purple for some of the girls and a medium blue for some of the boys.