What a change a border makes

To be a useful size, I needed to add borders to the flying geese units.  This served a two fold purpose, make it bigger, and to make the flying geese look more attractive.

I was going to do a border in three colour, but chose to repeat the blue.  You can't really tell in this photo, but there are lighter tones to the dark blue, which match the colours in the centre.  This is now ready to be sandwiched and quilted.  Fortunately, the other colour I bought, is big enough to use as the backing, and I've just got a piece of batting leftover from a previous project that is the perfect size.

As you can see, Finley wasn't going to move for anything when I was trying to see if this was big enough.  He did move his nose, as he didn't want it under the edge.

As an extra bonus, I even got another crumb block to add to my growing pile.

Borders

The borders and rows have been added, and now the top is completed.

I need to shop for fabric for the backing, as I don't have enough of anything here.  I shall then do a dark binding to finish it off.  I quite like the colour in this one, even though it's not something I would normally choose to do.  Terry has almost finished hers, so I'm looking forward to seeing it once she has it posted on her blog.

UFO Challenge

The UFO challenge took a bit of a back seat as I was saving up for my holiday.  Now that's gone, and I can start to buy fabric again to get some of these projects finished.

The next thing on the list, was to make a quilt from the BOM's I did last year from Amy's blog.  Originally, this was going to be two lap quilt and one or two cushions.  This was because, as you can see from the picture, the blocks were all different sizes.  The piecing left a lot to be desired in some of the blocks, but I had only just started quilting.  A lot of the blocks were beyond me, and at the time, I was pleased with how they turned out.  The trick now, was to find a way to rescue them, and make them look decent in a quilt.

 I've had several months to think about it, and decided, if I put a border around each block, I could make them all the same size and get them all into one quilt.  That will mean, I can get three months worth of UFO projects done at once..

I bought two lots of fabric, thankfully in a sale, and divided the blocks into two piles.  The first lot have this rusty colour around them.

These blocks are now151/2", so I am going to end up with a large quilt.  I am pleased to say, that the blocks seem to have a new lease of life and no longer look so shabby.  The next job is to add the borders to the second lot of blocks.

Borders

 I've finally got the border attached to the Mystery Monday Quilt.  I had to wait to get some more of the red to do the last side.

I had planned to add a green one too, but when I saw it laid out on the bed, I thought it would be big enough as it is.  It's only for a single bed, so it will be plenty big enough.

The next borders had to be put on the purple crumb blocks.

Now, for both of these, I need to find some suitable backing fabric.  I am determined that, between now and the end of the year, I shall get some of these flimsies completed and out of the way for good.  All I need, is some good fabric sales

Small Progress

Yesterday was a day of clearing small jobs from the sewing table, meaning small but necessary progress made on a couple of projects.  

First up was the tiger quilt top.  I found enough of the fabric to put on the final two borders along the top and bottom.

I used some left over half square triangles for the corners.  I wouldn't have had enough fabric otherwise.

 Next on the list was to add the red borders onto the Raggedy Quilt.

The lump at the bottom is Shylock, he didn't move even after having two quilts spread out over him!

Both these tops now need backing, batting and binding.  They will have to go back in the waiting pile until I can do some shopping.

Borders Added

The blue quilt now has it's borders.

 Not to be outdone, Bear decides he'll have his minute of fame.

He just walked straight across to jump to the window to have a nose at what was going on.

Now, I need to buy some fabric for the back and binding.