Feast or Famine

 FAMINE -After struggling to make a block for Alamo Quilt Shops monthly fat eighth exchange, I quit trying to make anything.  The block is beautiful, BUT it finished at 12" on one side and 12 1/4" on the other... I needed it to be 12 1/2" unfinished!

In the meantime, I was waiting for pre wound bobbins to come in from Superior Threads so that I could start working on my Feb UFO.  Thought I had the quilting design pretty much figured out when it dawned on me that there are STARS... scratch those ideas and find something else.  After chatting with friend, Colette, and watching endless videos and checking Pinterest, I came up with a design for the body of the quilt ( the border is still without an idea)... that's the pic above.  It might have been nicer - and quicker - if I made the motifs larger but I'm using the largest circle I have.  I like it!!  Going to take quite a while to finish it, though... this quilt is HUGE!  the backing is 2.5 yds wide and three  widths of fabric long (front to back) and the quilt top is something like 88"x 92".

FEAST -Guild has sew in this weekend, but hubby has dr. appt at noon on Friday and I'm not comfortable leaving him for more than an hour or two so I'll be staying home and sewing/quilting.  I haven't worked on any of this month's BOM's and I'd like to do another block in the CHRISTMAS quilt... and there's a new BOM coming in the mail any day now.  AND, I still haven't touched the Amish with a twist UFO that I wanted to finish last month.  There's a wall hanging top on my design wall just waiting to be quilted - it's next after I finish Sister's Choice ( the one on the frame now) and after I buy backing fabric for it.  I also need to see if I can find the scraps of black batting I had in hopes there's enough to piece together and use with the wall hanging.... infact, I'd better do it now while I think of it.

TTYL