Fall Rail Fence - Quilted

The strategy of loading the Fall Rail Fence quilt last weekend so that I could make passes on the long arm as I had a few minutes during the week seems to have worked.  I finished the quilting on this one Friday night.  

The quilting pattern is called, Swirls.

This is the backing.  I love the trees and bright background on this one.

I now need a strategy to get the binding attached!

Ice and Quilt Progress

This morning, we woke up to a layer of freezing rain covering everything.

Although the ice coating on everything is pretty, it is definitely not safe to be driving or walking in this weather.

 

It was safe to stay inside and quilt though.  :)

By 11:00 pm, I had finished making all the blocks for the Got Stripes quilt - with the exception of one.  I was short a green background strip.  I need to cut some green background  pieces to finish the last block and to replace some pieces in a block that is already pieced into the quilt top.  I made the mistake of reversing one piece of background fabric--front for back so I will need to do some reverse sewing.   

I also finished the binding on my Fire Escape quilt.  After finishing the binding, I spread the quilt out over the table to take a picture. 

A picture without the flash shows the colours of the quilt to be a little closer to reality and shows the swirl quilting design a little better.

Line Art / Skinny Strips and a House Warming

Tonight was the housewarming party for our daughter and her fiance.  They took possession of their new house on September 1, 2011.

My daughter had expressed interest in my Line Art / Skinny Strips flimsy when it was on the design wall so I quilted it up and presented it to them as a housewarming gift.

This was the quilt that we worked on in August during Linda's PAR-TAY.  http://silverthimblequilting.blogspot.com/2011/08/third-fab-birthday-par-tay-of-2011.html