Making Up Lost Time

I feel like I've made more progress in my quilting in the last three days that in the last six months. Today I went to Jodie's house to spend the afternoon quilting.

Whenever I go to a free-quilt event where I get to do what I want to, I always take more projects than I can possibly complete in the time so that I have options. Some days I like to work on my hand projects and other days I like to use my machine. Today I decided that I just had too many quilt tops that weren't finished, so I packed them up with my box of batting, along with three other projects to work on and headed out.

I spent the afternoon sorting through my batting scraps, piecing some of the bigger pieces together, and sandwiching four projects: two table runners, a small wall hanging, and a possibly baby quilt. I was very excited that I was able to piece my batting from my scraps. So much gets wasted from bigger projects and I didn't want to go buy batting from the store,

After I prepped those pieces, I worked on my tie Zakka projects. It didn't look the way I wanted so I've definitely decided on how I'm going to "present" the piece and a change to the structure. Although it's not working out exactly to plan, I'm making it work.

Tonight I continued my sewing rampage by starting to bind on my signature quilt while watching The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I intend to spend the rest of the week working on this so it can actually go back to the quilter for a quilt show in September.

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