Finished at the last gasp
Kay was getting a little upset as I started putting on the first of my planned borders for the Christmas quilt. We had two hours before we needed to leave to get to Linda’s house clear across town and I was just starting to put the first of three borders on. I really meant to do them the day before, but lacked the motivation.
Meanwhile, Kay had a lot to finish and DID do a lot of it the day before with only a little bit remaining on the day we needed to turn it over to the quilter Linda.
As I was sewing on the first border, I looked at the back and realized that a patch was all wonky! That’s what I get for trying to go too fast… another ten minutes wasted. I finally got on-track and managed to get all three borders sewn on in less than two hours. The last border was the toughest and required the most amount of attention with all the seams it had.
We were talking to Linda after we had arrived and were discussing thread colors and quilt patterns and I looked down at the six piles of fabric, their backing, and the batting realizing that this represented six quilts (translated… a LOT of difficult work) and it honestly put me in awe of what we had accomplished. Two of the quilts Kay had ear-marked for a firehouse, one of the large purple ones to our oldest daughter Amanda for her birthday, and the last three to keep.
As I mentioned before our daughter Samantha had a valid point that we can only use so many at a time. I really do like having them around the house though… on the backs of our couches, on the bed, and in the closet. I keep saying 10 more quilts should be sufficient, but don’t feel the slightest bit of bad when I make one for a relative and two for me. It’s not like we’re charging anyone.
Anyway, I actually wrote all of this to say that by the time I’d finished the Christmas quilt we had to leave immediately. Yes, I did finish all three borders. With Kay’s help I had the backing sewn as well. As we rushed them out to the car I realized that I hadn’t taken the photo of it yet. Delaying our trip slightly more, I placed the last bundle in the back of the car and snapped a quick shot of all six bundles on their way to the quilters.
Books quilts and sewing 