Retreat, Part Two

 

After I finished putting the borders on the Malaria quilt, I looked at the other unfinished projects I had brought along. I had stopped at Burkholder's on my way West, using their very generous 20% off coupon, and had made some very deliberate purchases. One such purchase was the stopper and outer borders for this batik baby quilt. The borders went on quickly and easily. I don't generally hand quilt batiks, but I just might try machine quilting this one.

Also at Burkholders, I found the yardage of Baba Ganoush that I wanted for the outer border on the Kaffe granny squares.

I can't tell you how much I love this quilt.

I am going to take it to Mary Ellen next week and have her machine quilt it.

I had bought a jelly roll of Kaffe in mostly blues and greens, and had about a yard and a half of that robin's egg Kona left over, and began making HSTs, pretty much aimlessly.

There was a request a couple of months ago for people to make specific blocks for Hurricane Sandy Relief quilts and also for people to turn the blocks into quilts. My friend Bobbi and I decided to partner as one of the latter. I received the blocks, trimmed them to wonky, and had them all lined up. The big floor there at White Oak was a perfect place to lay them out, and Saturday night I got them all put together and put on the borders. The green was in my tub of left-overs and the outer border is Italian stamps; I had picked up several yards of it on the flat-fold table at Sauder's ages ago, thinking it would come in handy someday. And so it has. I bought some plain extra wide black for the back and am about ready to turn it over to Bobbi to machine quilt. We haven't talked about who will bind it . . . .

And that, friends, is what I have to show for my accomplishments of the weekend. I can't give you pictures of the naps, the fellowship, the laughing and the scheming, and it is prolly better than I don't have pictures of the wine. The weekend was just what I needed.