New Year's Eve

Reynald has been fussing at me about doing a new blog post and he's right.  I just haven't done much the last two months that I consider interesting, since I have been trying to get acquainted with my new knee! 

I have been doing some reading and quite a bit sewing and hand work as well as lots of knee exercises.  Here are a few photos of projects I have been working on between exercises.

Last spring I delivered two quilts to Kathy Woods for her to machine quilt.  She returned the finished products about a month ago and I am so pleased with her work.  The last step in finishing was to sew on the binding and then hand sew it down.  Hand sewing binding is one of my favorite things to do for some reason.

 You may remember that I have a goal of completing a seasonal quilt for each bedroom in our house.  This pink double Irish Chain is the spring quilt for the guest room and completes this room!  I'm very pleased with how it turned out.

Hand sewing the binding down.  

I'm so happy with the way Kathy quilted this.

Didn't take time for the pillow tuck because the Christmas quilt is still on this bed.

Folded and hanging on one of the two quilt racks that my dad made for us.

Guest room Christmas quilt.

This is the fall quilt for our bedroom and completes the seasonal series for this room as well.  I'm also pleased with this one. 

Hand sewing the binding down, with supervision from Charlie.

I usually have quite a bit of help with my projects.

I had to put it on the bed just to see what it looks like.  Didn't take time for the pillow tuck, as the Christmas quilt is still on the bed as well.

Hanging on the rack, ready for fall!

I have rather ambitious goals for quilt piecing before spring work starts.  I'm hot on the trail of finishing the last fall quilt and just figured out what I want to do for a summer quilt with help from Beth.  I also have two 30's reproduction quilts cut and ready to piece that I intend to use as spring quilts.  And there's always a couple hand projects thrown in for good measure, on the list of winter projects.