It feels good to finally have a completely finished quilt to send off. I'm looking forward to getting the others done very, very soon, so that I can move on to other projects, guilt free. What other projects you say? One out of necessity, and one out of desperation. Desperation on so many levels.
First, I pulled this fabric to make myself a new wallet.
It's classic, summery, patriotic, and perfect. My old wallet, which I loved, literally fell apart last week. I was in denial about the sad shape it was in and I'm still in a little bit of denial that it's actually gone.
Second, I'm jumping on the bandwagon with Blue Elephant Stitches, and quilting through Simply Retro. I was going to go with her first choice, Sunday Morning Quilts, which I already own, and my first choice, but I checked Simply Retro out at the library and fell in love. My only rule is that I cannot buy any new fabric. Not even when it's "necessary" to finish a quilt. I HAVE to work from my stash only. Even if it means that my quilt will not be "perfect". I have so many lovely, and not so lovely, fabrics that I need to use up. I know that it will feel good to purge in such a delightful way. I pulled these fabrics for the first quilt in the book, Swell:
I bought this set from a quilt shop that was going out of business a few years back. At the time, I "loved" this fabric. Now, not so much. It's just too dark and not my style. Of course I bought yards, and yards, and yards of it. I'm hoping that one quilt will be sufficient to eat up all the yardage. It might be a large quilt. . .
With all of this sewing going on, I'm starting to feel a wee bit better. Let's hope I can keep it up, orange binding and all.
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