The BB quilts are DONE!! -- washed, dried and folded and setting on my ironing board waiting for me to find gift bags to place each one in.
The last one was the hardest one of all.... had all kinds of problems "challenges"... the most important one is that every once in awhile, the silver/gray top thread would peek through to the dark gray with black polka dot backing... and then in one area where I really went freestyle, there's A LOT of gray thread showing ( I covered up most of it with the label that I had to GASP hand sew all four sides down on). As soon as I went back to straight stitching, the silver stayed on top where it was supposed to be. I used black thread in the bobbin - I'm guessing now that I should have used the silver in the bobbin, too, but I really didn't want to.
I hope to get photos to share with you when we give the quilts to the guys this next Saturday.
Ok, now on to the next project... this is a Trolls themed quilt top that I made earlier this year...
and this is a scrap of the backing fabric that is already loaded onto Mo'e along with lemon yellow threads top and bottom. I kind of wish I had purple but I don't and that's ok.
I'm NOT doing custom quilting on this one - that would be silly of me... I'll probably just meander.... and hope that there's enough backing fabric left to make the binding.... otherwise, I'm going to have to find something else. The top was made with a layer cake so there's nothing left of that.
I plan on sending this to one of our great granddaughters who lives in Texas. I think she just turned six ( too many grands and greats to keep track of ages anymore) - it will be her first quilt from me ( she and her older sister joined our family when their mom married one of our grandsons).
Guess that's it for today.... think I'll take a quick nap before I finish loading Mo'e.
Happy New Year!
take care...
ttyl
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