Lunch hour sewing

With an hour in between work projects yesterday I prepped a binding, pieced a backing, and cut some of the pieces for a piano key border.  

This navy blue binding is the same fabric as the navy sashing on this Quilt of Valor I'm making for a family member who spent his whole career in the Navy.   It's all ready to sew onto the quilt that just came back from the quilter.  I want this one completely done by November 1 as he often comes back to Minnesota to go deer hunting with his brother in November.  But if not, then the quilt will be mailed to Florida, and maybe his daughter will present it for me.  

Piano Key borders always look good but I don't necessarily enjoy making them.  I prefer working from strip sets, but in this case I'm pulling from scraps so I cut a variety of widths by 4.5" long.  I need a bit more variety of color yet but it's a good start.  Then I'll need to make 4 hourglass blocks for the corners - also from scraps. 

Once the borders are ready they will go onto the Kim Diehl Potting Shed mini quilt.  Luckily I don't need a very long strip of piano keys as this is only about 20" square.  

Last but not least I pieced a bright pink backing for this child sized quilt.  This was a Rainbow Scrap Challenge project that I put together back in June.  The block is called Beads or Chandelier, and I mostly used a couple of charm packs plus a few other scraps.  I'm hoping to drop it off with a quilter over the weekend.