Friday, November 25, 2011

Nothing Finished Friday

It's TGIFF again. Have I got anything finished?
Noooo.
But hop over to Sparrow In Flight and see what you can get finished when you're having a high old time lazing around pregnant. I mean, Shanna must have loads of energy from all that bedrest so I'm expecting some spectactular finishes. If she has popped the baby out early, I fully expect she's done it in about 5 minutes and finished off some hand binding at the same time. That's what Alaskans are like.

My turn to host is creeping up and I've been procrastinating like mad.

I swore I'd have the black monster jewelbox quilt finished for the First Friday in December. But will I??? I have been doing ANYTHING ELSE it seems. I mean, it's waited 10 years, what's another two or three?
Last week was busy socially. This week - well, Wednesday was 36 degrees C (that's 97F). The roses turned to pot-pourri on the bushes. Thursday was 37C/100F. Lovely weather for sitting under a KING-SIZE POLYESTER BATTED QUILT and wrestling it through a machine. But I finally got round to doing some dodgy FMQ-ing for the big gaps.Three to go.

Then a double line of in-the-ditch quilting all the way around, then binding (HA, binding a KingSize will be fun. It's so getting done by machine).

There are a few in-the-ditch bits I've missed but it's doubtful I will be going back to do those. No one is going to spot the missing ones.

Then I have a thousand threads to trim off the back (may not do that as you won't know whether I have or not) and 10 years worth of dog fur to remove. (I have 4 replacement rolls of IKEA sticky fluff-remover stuff for my lint roller. I fully expect to use them all.). THEN it is finished.


Sooooo... bets on whether I get there or not? Someone should be running a book on this. Place your bets in fat quarters... ;)


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4 comments:

  1. Loud KatrinaNovember 25, 2011 at 10:06 AM

    Oh my goodness I remember when that was in the planning stages, must have been one of the first big projects you thought about doing? So glad for you that is finally looking finished. Always did love the colours in it. I reckon that you will get it done. And I have 2 fat quarters to back me up! lol

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  2. Janine @ Rainbow HareNovember 25, 2011 at 3:42 PM

    It's looking good! Sounds like you'll be glad to get it finished :)

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  3. CindyNovember 25, 2011 at 9:26 PM

    This quilt is gorgeous!! Are you quilting that large beauty on your domestic machine? I'm impressed!! I'm a weenie when it comes to trying to quilt anything larger than a lap quilt. You have a lot to be proud of with this one!

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  4. AnonymousNovember 26, 2011 at 7:16 PM

    oooh ooooh ooooh another Perth quilter!!!
    Sorry... what else did you say - I got too distracted by that little fact ;)
    Love your quilting on this quilt. Go you for quilting it on Thursday in that insane heat!
    xx

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