Quilting

I FINALLY ran to HoLo the other day to pick out my backing for my Herringbone quilt!  It just so happened that they had a perfect backing.   Yesterday while snowed in, I pieced the backing and readied the batting.

After dinner, while the boys went sledding, I basted.

This morning I started quilting it, in the ditch along a zig-zag line.  

I'm about half finished with the quilting, and I am just so excited!

With the Herringbone quilt in the machine being quilted, I am officially on my last wip!  In my WIPs cabinet there is my lonely BOM which still has two months left.  

late January/early February

A couple months ago that cabinet was full! 

I feel like I've reached the top of the mountain..... or I've discovered the atom.....rang the bell at the rope climb.... ran through the finish-line tape..... yelled, "LAND HO" after a  long journey at sea......  just pressed the = on my calculator and figured out how to balance the federal budget.....

It is amazing to have my projects tamed! Literally I think the last time I was in this situation it was 2009 or 2010.  

Of course I have projects on the horizon, but I am going to tackle them one at a time.  

Speaking of projects......Recently I acquired a few projects from a very kind quilter who wanted her fabric to end up as quilts somehow in the near future.  It was such a generous and exciting gift!  I'm really looking forward to these upcoming quilts! 

 First I am going to use these Juggling Summer charm packs to make this pattern.  I saw a quilt on instagram that I thought would give this fabric a saturated look, with plenty of places for the eye to rest.   So I wrote up a pattern and I am looking forward to getting started soon. (after the binding is on the Herringbone)

Nothing makes me work faster than a new quilt begging to get started!