I'm a winner and a finisher!

One of our beautiful granddaughters is on her high school dance team and they performed extremely well at a competition yesterday.  As a fundraiser there were many wonderful raffle baskets that one could win.  I put in several tickets on a loaded Trader Joe's basket and lo and behold, I was the winner!!  I am thrilled with my winnings!

 After coming home from the dance competition, I finished hand sewing the black binding on this quilt that I have depicted before when it was in the WIP stage.  I'm liking this one a lot!

This and that

I was reminded I hadn't blogged for a while, but to tell you the truth, sometimes I wonder whether to keep it up.  We'll see.

This past weekend was the annual quilt retreat that I go to.  What a great time I had with friends, and lots and lots of sewing accomplished.  The following photo is the layout of a quilt one of my friends is making for her daughter.  I think it is just spectacular.  Gotta love that blue and pink!

I worked on a couple different projects, and got a lot of blocks completed, which I will plan to post about another time.

The following photo is a quilt I am nearly done quilting on.  I think I have posted about this at least once before.  At any rate, I was within six blocks of being done quilting the body of the quilt, and darn it all, anyway, if I didn't run out of thread.  I did manage to find a pretty good match, so completed that and am half done quilting the border.  I'll post again when it's bound and totally completed.

 I signed up to take a Beginning Wool Applique class with a friend.  That class was Monday, and truthfully, I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.  It is a fun process.  We all were to purchase a small kit and mine is a Buttermilk Basin kit. 

Progress being made

I now have 56 of these blocks completed and am in the process of trimming them a bit and testing layouts.  Laying them out is enough to make my head spin!  I will eventually have something I am satisfied with.  Sorry the quality of the photo is not so great.