Finishing Quilts

Today, wow, today. Let's see what I have been up to. Enough to keep me busy till about 4 pm today for sure. 

I went downstairs to work on the quilt that was on the wall. I finished the borders and got it ready to go to Colleen tomorrow. 

It is now done. I like how it turned out and is a lot prettier in real life. It turned out a lot better than I thought it would. 

Next, I worked on doing my backing and battings to get them ready for quilters. I had to wash the backings and then get them ready. I also had to open a new roll of batting and get it ready to cut for the quilts. We are going through backing material fast, since quilts are coming in more. While I was doing that, I got confused on which backing went to which quilt, so had to stop and get the backing finished with washing so I could figure out which quilt needed a backing. I have one more to do, but that can wait. I'm taking 4 quilts to Colleen as it is. 

Then I pulled another panel out and got to work on it. I need to get a couple more panels done to get to the quilters, so we can have them for February. I just hope they get quilted fast. I need them for next month. 

This one was on top of the pile, so I decided to work on it. The blue/white fabric is blue with white stars. They come out as dots. This pattern is the pattern for the QOV panel quilt. I will do that with the QOV quilt later, but since this is quick and easy to do, I decided to make this one. The panel is a little bigger than the QOV panel, but that works for me. It will be fun to see how it comes out. I may use that pattern more on some of the panels, because it's already done for me, I just have to cut the fabric and sew them together. We will see how I do with this one first. There are different ways of doing the blocks, so they all won't look the same.

All that took all afternoon. I'm having to deal with our presentation on Thursday. We have enough quilts for that one. I'm just working towards February right now. I know we have the quilts but really want the panels for the active-duty members. 

I took the night off and played games. I was thrilled and tired by the time I realized it was a day of Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!