HUGE yet AWESOME setback

Here is the good news: Moms quilt is done. And Grampa's table runner is all machine stitched together. It just needs the bindings sewn on and the center piece to be cut, folded and pinned. So about a days worth of work left there.

Here is the bad news: Uncle Jimss totally awesome super mario bros pillow has been put on the back burner for so long that I almost forgot that it wasn't a completed project. That certainly isn't for lack of love for my totally awesome, techno savy uncle! But it would seem that these projects wont be completed until the xmas deadline is staring me in the face.

Here is why, and this is the awesome part that makes up for this ( I hope).

Awesomeness part I - im going on vacation to St. Johns (USVI) for the first time in my life this Saturday for a whole week. The primary objective of this vacation is to spread the remainer of my grandmothers ashes and celebrate my fathers 50th birthday. I think, just to be a nerd, I will bring grampas project with me to do on the plane on the way down. He is flying separately from us as he is coming from FL and not the far north. Ill just have to hide it while im down there.

Awesomeness part II - I am moving out of my dads.
Some may think that this is not a big deal. I would say "nay nay this is huge!" However, with everything getting packed away it will sadly mean that Uncle Jims pillow will be the last thing I finish this year even though it was one of the first that I started. Again, not for lack of love for my wonderful uncle but for lack of love for those frustrating little squares! Tee hee.

I've gotta say, im so excited could throw up!

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Nearly Done!

In light of the fact that the holidays are fast approaching, not to mention my week long vacation in the caribbean, I am cutting some projects short. I did a quick evaluation of my mother's quilt last night and found that, in it's current state, it will just barely drape over the edges of a queen size mattress. I had intended to make it larger however she had mentioned to me that she really just wanted something to snuggle with in front of the tv so there is really no sense in going larger. So I tossed on the inner binding, which really brings the whole thing together. I still think that the stars are a little eye twisting to look at because they are constructed from very heavily concentrated patterned fabric. With the backing cut now I just have to sandwich the whole thing, which I am hoping to get to tonight.

This means that I should be able to do most of the quilting over the remaining week and weekend and bind it all up next week. Possibly even before the holiday. Wow, that would be nice. Then I can use the majority of the holiday to whip up grampa's table runner and center piece. Once Grampa is all complete I can put the finishing touches on the nagging SMB's pillow...

and then I'm done! :)

I have learned over the last few months that quilting massive amounts of projects with a deadline as hard as Christmas hanging over you really doesn't make for enjoyable quilting when you start coming down to the wire. Considering that I don't have every weekend off to quilt I have just odd hours on either end of my most hated job to work on my projects. I will, of course, continue to quilt, but I think once the holidays are over I'll probably spread projects for next Christmas out over a whole year. Though a serious chunk of next year will be taken up with Dragon Age II, which comes out March 8th. I'm a geek, I know. :)

Even though, at the moment, I don't have a single comment on my blog I am hoping that people will come to this blog once they have been given their gifts to see how they were constructed from start to finish.