Make-A-List Monday - It's Fall, Y'all, and Quilting Week!

 

Hi, all!

Monday has come around once again, and with it, cooler weather - it looks like fall has finally started!  I'm really enjoying it, but Bree is over the moon - she spends large parts of the day romping in the back yard and rolling in the grass.  Is the weather cooling off yet where you are?  

Despite the pretty weather, though, I did get some sewing done this week!   Let's see how last week's list went....

1.  Finish the baby quilt top.

Done, and ready to quilt!  And not only the top, but a pieced back too!

2.  Bind five quilts for the quilt ministry.

Done - and of course, I forgot to take a picture before I took them to church Sunday.  But trust me, they're finished!

3.  Assemble a beautiful pile of blocks we received in the mail for the ministry this week.

Done!  And I decided to put sashing between the blocks, because I am entirely too lazy to match all those seams - and I LOVE IT!

4.  Quilt a top for a special recipient.

I haven't quilted it yet (more on that later) but it is loaded on the frame and ready to go!

5.  Draft out a design for a new fall quilt for my bed.

Thanks to Amy at Diary of a Quilter (who is quite the enabler) I think I have an idea for what I want to do for my next quilt.  She mentioned this pattern in her newsletter and I fell in love with the gorgeous maple leaf blocks!  The pattern is Fall Leaves by Cluck Cluck Sew.

So all in all, not a bad bit of productivity for the week!  And I've decided that this week is going to be quilting week.  I've got a bunch of quilts ready to go, and I think that will be my focus.  So here's my list for this week....

1.  Quilt the top for the special recipient.

2.  Quilt the baby quilt.

3.  Quilt Nathanael's annual quilt.

4.  Quilt Lilli's annual quilt.

5.  Find a back for this beautiful vintage top I found at a fall sale this past weekend!

6.  Work on piecing Emmy's quilt.  This is what I'm working on right now - 25 patch blocks from an ocean-themed fat quarter bundle.

I'm thinking, though, that this might also be interesting with a deep sapphire blue sashing between the blocks, so I may fiddle with that and see how it looks!  Oh the possibilities!

If quilting week goes really well, I've got several other tops I could throw on the frame, including two more vintage tops.  And since I hit that sale a few weeks ago, I've got backing options!  

And I saw a funny today that I want to share with you (mainly so you have this song running through your head too!)

So now, I really need to know - - -  what are YOU working this week?

Hugs!

Sarah