Finished (or not) Friday

This has been quite a week!!  I'm tired out. 

Late on Wednesday afternoon I was honored to award a Quilt of Valor in Sioux Falls to a Viet Nam veteran.  We moved this award up in the schedule as the veteran is in poor health.  It worked out perfectly because I could go the presentation and then went to watch a granddaughter play softball in a double-header just a few minutes away.  He was so tickled to receive the quilt, and his friends set up a nice little party to celebrate HIM. 

Thursday turned into a long sewing day.  My husband left the house at 8 am to meet both sons-in-law for golf.  They were meeting at a course in between us.  I wasn't invited, so I spent a good share of the day in my sewing room uninterrupted.  Then supper was at a Jackrabbit alumni social event here in town.  It was a pretty good day.

Vicki pointed out yesterday that I've had "pedal to the metal" this week.  That is quite true, with that progress spread out over several different projects.

An actual finish can be reported - this small table topper.  It is the practice block I made before cutting into the kit I bought for a 3-block runner.  The kit project is something I finished right away, and this one was in danger of being set aside with orphan blocks.  But I added the red and white borders, quilted it, and finished the binding in the car on the way to a grandson's baseball game on Monday.

However, the 2nd 60 degree runner I wanted to finish this week didn't go as well.  Oops!!  It's difficult to see in the photo but I had it all quilted and ready to bind when I discovered 3 big pleats in the backing.  Those were completely due to my being in a hurry to get it done.  So I'll be picking out some quilting over the weekend.

Since I was in binding mode this week I dug into my leftover lengths of binding for some mug rugs that were quilted and then added back into the pile.  These little mug rugs are quick binding in front of the TV when I don't have a ton of time.

I did switch to block sewing yesterday after messing up that quilting.  From the RWB fabrics found in that drawer - a partial strip set left over from a previous rail fence quilt.  I added a blue strip to the red/white strips, and cut it into 6" blocks and have added them to a small stack of other leftover Rail Fence blocks in our QOV bin.  They will go into some future QOV.  And more fabric had been used up from the drawer. 

Four more RWB Ticker Tape blocks were sewn from the big collection of parts I cut a few days ago.  These are good Leaders/Enders.

Finally a few blocks were made for Rainbow Scrap Challenge, but those I'll share tomorrow on the RSC post.

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