Carolina Crossroads bound

Another UFO is bound.  Whoopee!  I started this quilt with Bonnie K. Hunter on her website, Quiltville,com, in December 2007  If I remember correctly, it was Bonnie's first mystery quilt.  It has been quilted for a couple of years.  Since I have been on this binding binge I have completed five bindings in the last few weeks.  Three of these quilts have been UFOs.  I have five more large UFO quilts to be bound.  Now if I could have all the tops that need quilted (then bound) completed, I would be almost caught up!  HA-HA!

When Bonnie started this mystery quilt, I was working.  I remember that I managed to keep up with her instructions as they were printed in her website.  This was my turquoise/purple period.  I am not completely out of that period, but I remember two or three quilts around 2007/2009 that have this same color scheme.  It remains one of my favorite color schemes.  I have a kaleidoscope UFO in this turquoise/purple color scheme.  When I finish all these quilted quilts that need bindings, I want to start on my UFOs that are in bins/boxes again.  The kaleidoscope quilt is one I want completed.  Every time I look at the bin with those blocks and strips yet to be sewn, it makes me want to pull it out and sew, sew, sew!

With this said, I hope that each of you is working on finishing those UFOs.  If you are one of the fortunate folks who do not have any UFOs, then start one!

Happy Quilting

A Quilt For Him

Recently DH and I made a trip to his mother and step-father house to help clean it out and get it ready for sale.  When we came back we had three finished bed size quilts, one of them made by me.  This brown quilt is one of the larger quilts we were given.  We also came home with a purple log cabin quilt and the tulip quilt that I had made for my mother-in-law.  I will get pictures of those quilts and post them soon.

The pattern design of this brown quilt is very interesting.  I like it a lot.  It is a simple design, but I enjoy the way the colors flow around the quilt.  Our oldest son called recently and asked me when I was going to make him a quilt.  I restrained myself from reminding him that when he moved out of the house he did not take the quilt that I had made for him.  Then a light bulb idea came to me that possibly I had the perfect quilt for him - the brown one.  I told him to come home for a visit (he lives up the hill from us in the same town) and we would talk quilts.

Older son came by today to borrow a saw (and some other things I imagine).  He looked at the brown quilt and said he liked the colors and the design (whoopee) so he took the brown quilt home with him today.  I have some coffee flavored fabrics that I have planned to use in a quilt for his significant other.  She drinks a LOT of coffee so I decided she might appreciate a coffee themed quilt.  The coffee quilt (as I have come to call it) is still in the design stage, but with the desire I have burning to finish quilts and reduce my stash it may become reality very soon.

BTW, in the photo father is on the left side of the quilt and son is on the right.   Can you see any similarities between them?

Happy Quilting