Finally Finished!!

I'm afraid to look back to see just when this quilt was put onto "Mo'e"; I know it was there in December.... and there it sat, untouched, until last month.  

I don't know exactly what happened, but I was using black thread on the top and yellow in the bobbin and the tension was perfect... until I got to the second bobbin ( both magna glide prewound), then, no matter if I tried adjusting the bobbin or the top tension, little pin dots of yellow continued to show up on the quilt top... not ALL the time, but a majority of it.  That bobbin ran out and I inserted a third one... back to perfection again.... arghhhh.
After stitching all the black, I went back and then stitched with green thread on top and continued with yellow in the bobbin... lastly, was the yellow on top.  I'd pretty much run out of ideas as to what to stitch in the yellow.  It really needed to be tacked down but I didn't want it heavily quilted - and not barely quilted either... so, the only 'happy medium' I could decide on was to do a medium meander.
As soon as it was finished ( binding and label), I popped it in the washing machine and then dryer in the hopes that it would 'puff' up enough to hide those annoying yellow pin dots.  Sigh... it didn't. 
I entered it in our guild's quilt show which is coming up in a couple of weeks and it will show just as it is.  I've heard of some quilters who will use sharpie markers to cover up "Oopsies" like my yellow pin dots, but I'm not going to do it.  My son will probably inherit this quilt eventually and he won't care about them.

Soon after I got this off the frame, I loaded another one on... much smaller and one that shouldn't take as long to do... I have about half of the borders done, but I overdid it getting the last quilt finished and just don't feel I have the strength to stand long enough to work on it right now.  I'll get to it - maybe next week.

In the meantime, I've got some other projects started and finished and am working on my RSC today... had a hard time finding any teal fabrics, but finally found one strip - just enough.  And I've finally made up my mind about what to do for this week's Project Quilting challenge.. washed the fabrics and ironed all but one so I can get to it either today or tomorrow.

And, on that note, I'll say....

take care.....
ttyl......