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Yay!  I finally finished it.

A while back my grandpa had given me a bunch of quilt blocks that my granny (my great grandma) had made some time ago before she died in 2002.  She was kind of the queen of WIP, so I’m still collecting some random crafty things she’d started and going through to see what I can do to finish them or turn them into something else.

Mom and I went antiquing in March and found another set of blocks that went well with the ones my Granny had made since there weren’t enough to make an entire quilt. Even with these, it’s a pretty small lap quilt, but it’s really pretty anyway.  I ended up tea staining all the blocks since some were more aged-looking than others — they’re all about the same now.

As you can tell by the crappy quilting, I did it myself on my machine. I have a ton of quilt tops waiting to be turned into quilt sandwiches, but I need to send those off to somebody professional to do them. I probably should have done the same with this one, but I was impatient and wanted it to be finished — not to mention, I wanted to be the one to do it since my Granny had hand-pieced the blocks.

I have a couple more blocks she’s done, but I’m trying to figure out what I want to do with them still. This is a really neat quilt, and I’m really glad I have it.

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I can’t ever wait until a project is completely finished OR until I have good pictures of it…I guess I’m super impatient (how I do quilting…don’t ask!)…

I’ve been hoarding this jelly roll of Hello Betty fabric for over a month. I’ve been looking for an easy pattern for a jelly roll (since it’s pre-cut into 3ish” strips).  I decided on a rail fence pattern…super easy! (also, did I mention that pretty much all quilting websites and fabric websites look and navigate like they were made in the mid–late nineties??)

Anywho, I got to work and finished the top. There’s a couple of crooked areas, but I zipped through it because I knew if I had to put it down then I wouldn’t finish it!  I had a few block parts leftover and one entire strip of the checkerboard in brown (I hate the checkerboard fabric!)…so I made a pillow for my friend Adria out of those.  I had 2 full blocks leftover, so I’m going to make 1–2 pillows out of that.

This quilt is for my mom who likes these retro fabrics (heck, granny used the original version of some of these in a quilt we have at home!) and she loves browns with blues and oranges and pretty much browns with anything.

Anyway, here are a few really crappy photos of what I’ve got. I will post better ones later… when the thing is finished. I need to get batteries for my camera (aka find my rechargables!).  

the colors are really off because my flash wasn't working...but this is a better picture.

again, colors are off. It's more of a red orange and the green is more turquoise...it's brown, not black too!

I’m planning to use the above fabric as the backing piece…not cheap, but I have to buy 4 or so yards of it, and fast! I can only find this in one store, and I LOVE this one! I’m also going to do a 4-inch cream border on the front of this quilt and I haven’t decided what the binding will be… most likely it’s going to be that solid red/orange, which I will also have to buy up rather quickly!

Also, here’s the pillow I made…. I need to finish the seam on the side where I stuffed it, but like I said…I can never wait to post projects!

I also cut most of the fabric and pinned most of my mermaid bags tonight… yay!  

andddd…. SLEEP!

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