First completion of 2012

I finished my mother-in-law's Flora quilt just in the nick of time. I literately took the quilt out of the dryer and put it in our suitcase on our way out the door to the airport.  I had to wrap it in the rental car at the restaurant where her birthday celebration was.
It turned out really beautifully. The quilting was lovely and I'm really proud of the piecing I was able to accomplish.

I even added a quilt label AND the pièce de résistance was a photo of all the family members pieced together via photoshop, printed onto fabric courtesy of bubblejet and then hand-sewn onto the back. 

My 'stitch happens' moment on this quilt was when hurriedly adding the binding I had right sides together but a little twisted. Luckily it was only a few stitches to rip out and try again. Whew.

Flora quilt top is done

I'm very pleased with how this quilt turned out. I really tried to pay attention to detail at each step and I think it really paid off. 

It's at the quilters and should be ready soon. Yay!!

Piecing like a maniac

I'm really pleased with how my mother-in-law's birthday quilt (aka Flora Quilt) is going together.

LOTS of pieces but it's going together pretty quickly. I'd like to be able to finish it up this weekend and hopefully get it to the quilter's on Monday. We'll see, since a certain someone keeps interrupting things....

New quilt in the works

My mother-in-law will be turning 96! in the middle of January. She lives in a different state than we do and we plan on visiting her to celebrate/visit with all the family. That gives me two weeks to finish a quilt for her.
I plan on making it a lap quilt, that is actually just for her lap, roughly 32" x 50ish" or so. I want it to be something she can just have on her lap when she's sitting to keep her legs warm rather than the larger 60x80 lap quilts that folks use to snuggle up on the couch with.
Once again, enter Pinterest. Someone pinned this lovely quilt and I think it'll be perfect for my mother-in-law.

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I have a Flora charm pack by Moda and ordered some extra yardage from Burgundy Buttons, very nice of them to have a sale on the fabric I need. :)

I've starting cutting into the charm pack and my order from Burgundy Buttons should ship out today so I should be able to get rocking & rolling next week.