Saturday, July 20, 2013

July's Friday Night Sew In

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This month the Friday Night Sew In is being hosted by Sugar Lane Quilts  and I am super excited to see this Sew-Along come back!!! My goal this month was to get my quilt top finished and I DID!!!  I started out with the quilt top looking like this...

 
4 strips already sewn together, 16 more to go. I started early yesterday as I wanted to make sure I had plenty of time to get this done and not be stressed about it. If you've read my FNSI posts before you'll know that I'm not super friendly with a sewing machine. Short periods at a time keeps me happy:)
However in the middle of the day I realized that I need to go into town. We were out of bottled water (our water is icky and our purifier needs a new filter, so bottled water for right now), and we were out of cat food. I trip into town is never a quick thing, so 3 hours later we were finally home.

 
 This meant that I was up much later than I would have been to get this done. BUT, I did get it done!!! I am super happy with how it looks and I can't wait to have it all the way quilted and finished so I can have it on my bed!!!

 
Here is a close up of the fabrics I used in this quilt. I'm planning on using the blue flower as my backing and binding as it is my favorite print of them all:)
 
Next month my goal will be to have the backing pinned on and maybe get the quilting done. I'm planning to machine quilt a simple diagonal line through all the blocks. Nothing fancy, but maybe if I keep it simple this quilt will actually get done!!! 

9 comments:

Shari said...

Very pretty! Congrats on meeting your goal. I agree, I like the blue floral pattern too...they all look lovely together.

Bernadett said...

Beautiful.:)

Emily C said...

Very nice. Love the quilt, great prints. I love the blue floral too.

Rosie said...

Great work and I love the colours.

Deb R said...

tis gorgeous, lovely work!

Lyn said...

you had a productive time..the quilt is looking good

Joy McD said...

That is sooo pretty! Love it! xxx

Donna Baker said...

that's beautiful! (stopping by from the FNSI sign up)

Anthea said...

Lovely quilt work there Shannon... it will be on your bed in no time!
(visiting from FNSI)
anthea