From Backing To Quilting!

It's the weekend after Christmas - I'm sure everyone is still pretty much in a holiday stupor, but hopefully getting things back together and able to spend some time recuperating in your sewing spaces!

On Wednesday (Christmas Eve Day) I spent a few hours at the QPO stitching the big pink behemoth backing together from the squares I had finished the previous day.

What a crazy mix of fabrics being sewn down!

And you can see here that seams are pressed open.

Pressing seams open is a last case resort for me when it comes to the patchwork front, but on the backings I like them open to eliminate as much bulk as possible for ease of rolling up on the machine rollers.  It stops baggy-saggy areas and other areas that are too tight where the seams are.

Two haves ready to join -

How is it that this barely made head space in that pink hunks & chunks bin?

It's together!

And I think it's going to be a great backing, making it a tow-sided reversable quilt!

This is where I left things Christmas eve night, saving the quilting for yesterday.

After all the dishes were done and the house was back quiet on Christmas night, we settled in to watch a movie...I'm now on the 2nd side border for the everlasting hexie quilt.  Slow progress is still progress.

When people say "You are so prolific"  I think of this quilt and the fact that this quilt was stared un 2018 when I went to China.  This is not a prolific quilt. It's taking forever!

But here I am in my comfy spot with hexies, Lola, and my Christmas socks. 

Yesterday - let the quilting begin!

I knew the name of this last night when I came home.

This morning it's out of my head - so I'll look it up again when I go back.

I'm quilting in a baby baby pink thread. It's crossing through everything, both light and dark areas nicely.

Crackers & Jam has some pretty small piecing and I like the quilting to not be too large for the scale of that piecing so I'm quilting fairly tightly.

Peek a boo!

I loved seeing the random block I pieced into the back make its way around the take up roller.

Reaching the end!
It was time for me to shut it down and come back to spend time with the family.
It's wonderful having Jason here.  He and Dave went to a Christmas Cornhole thing last night to hang out with the local guys giving me more relax time to sit with hexies and watch something mysterious and detective-y on Brit Box.
I was in bed long before they got home.
My goal for today is to head over the feed the porch kitties, finish that last row on the quilt, trim it up and get binding on so I can be stitching down binding over the next couple of nights of movie binge-watching.
A peaceful slow weekend incoming!
I hope your holiday was wonderful and filled with family, food, friends and fun.
And if you preferred to have a quiet holiday surrounded by four legged barkers and purry furries, I'll hold that space for you too.
Holidays are a lot.  Sometimes too much.

Quiltville Quote of the Day -
There is magic in the feeling of the fabric. 

In the pressing, cutting, sewing, creating! 

Get in there and discover the possibilities! 
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone -