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.