Finally Finished!

The last stitch was taken.

It’s FINALLY FINISHED!

14+ months later –which really isn’t too bad considering that all of the seams (or most) took place as Leaders & Enders while working on other main-line things over the course of a bit more than a year.

One simple shape – a quarter square triangle.

A rainbow of colors, anticipation mounting as each new color round was started.

I love the light airiness of this quilt – and the fabrics?  Everything from old to new – the earliest pieces dating from the late 1970s to early 1980s, all the way to fabrics from today.  A Chronicle of Triangles.

SO much fun!

Just pretty.  Some quilts are just pretty.  And I love this.

And with a sigh of relief I can also say that this year’s Checkerboard Rails Leader & Ender is also well underway.  I bet I’ve got close to 300 4-patches made as well! I’m thinking of cutting into my layer cake squares for the rail parts….cutting what I can from them to use them up. 

Antique Mall Rail Fence Find!

If you look closely you’ll see these are set “pinwheel” fashion.

I also found this lovely!!

Several of the fan blades have been worn away.

But aren’t the colors great?

What came home.

I love crockery bowls.  Not matched sets, but different ones for interest.  This one is a blue salt-glazed bowl and the design is a bit lopsided and it just called to me. 

The doily?  I have a plan for that, I’ll get to that in a second.

3 different blue striped bowls up on top!

4 different crockery bowls up here too.

The blue one I just bought is going over the cabinet above the fridge.  My cabin kitchen is looking quite cute with these vintage additions!  As for the doily?

It’s going here in the guest room basin!

Every time I walk up the stairs and across the floor I hear the pitcher in this bowl just a vibrating away. The floors are pine, there is no cushioning or shock absorbing carpets….just “rattle rattle rattle!”

It rattles no more!

Yesterday’s drive home was lovely –leaves are turning!

All was smooth sailing until:

Oh dang!

There is a long and windy steep pass that I travel down from Sparta to Elkin, NC ---and if you get behind a lumber hauler going only 15 mph it can take a long long time to get down that pass as there are no passing lanes going down at all.  There is nothing to do but smile, relax, enjoy the drive and the scenery as you wind your way down to the flatlands below.

This happened last evening!

I won’t get too far on it today as there are about 150+ mail order packages to get out after being gone for the week – but perhaps this evening after post office hours are over I’ll get some stitching in.

This is quilt #12 for the next book project – the plan is to get it quilted and bound before I leave for New York next Monday (Stress?  Hurry?  BREATHE!) so we can get it off for photography while I”m gone to China.  I’m loving everything ABOUT this quilt and it is so hard to say STAY TUNED for this pattern, but you can start saving those neutral strings and stock up on your indigo blues.

Quilt-Cam?  Give me a couple of days and I think we can do it – how about Thursday evening at 8pm Eastern?  I’ve got plenty of Sugar Bowl Blocks to keep working on.  Join me via Facebook Live at at the time – and we can visit for an hour or so.

And hopefully by then THIS will be back on my back molar where it belongs :(

I swear this has been the year of dental nightmare. Hopefully it can just be glued back in place.  Appointment tomorrow morning.

Quiltville Quote of the Day.

A bit of humor needed, I think!

Have a great Tuesday, everyone!