But I have yet to do anything with it. What I'd really like to do is make 2 more and then frame them.....some day. I need to finish that. A side note here - the thimble protected this finger
But nobody warned me about this finger.
Do you see the end of my finger and the hundreds of needle pricks? I think I need another thimble. Next up was my own quilt. I worked hard and got about 2/3 of the blocks made, and then stopped. Here is my pile of blocks, sitting in my room, collecting dust.
What I'd really like to do is to finish this quilt and put it on my bed for the winter. I need to finish that. Then came the dreaded hexagons. I slaved away to make this way cute top for a placemat (copying Kimberly's idea)
I love it, but it almost killed me, and I never made the actual placemat. What I'd really like to do is make 6 placemats (what's wrong with me?). See, I even have all the hexagons sorted out into baggies.
I need to finish that. Back in May (or was it April) I issued a challenge to everyone to make blocks to make a quilt for Quilts of Valor. Everyone did that, and then the blocks sat for a month at Kimberly's. Then she put together this top with half the blocks.
Then she left for her summer vacation and gave everything to me to finish the other top and take it in to get quilted. By the time she got back from vacation, I still hadn't done it. Yeah, I'm good. So I finally finished my top a couple of weeks ago. Here it is.
Those who were at the quilt group today saw these. Afterwards I took them in to get quilted. As soon as they are quilted, I will pick them up and we can finish them off. I wonder how long that will take me:) I have to side note here again - when I dropped the quilts off today, the other quilting group went NUTS! They completely loved our quilts, and totally drooled over each one for about 10 minutes. They even took pictures. First of all, they couldn't believe that we were donating them to Quilts of Valor. Second of all, they were very impressed with our "skill". I told them that most of the people in our group are newbies, and have never made a quilt before. They were trying to recruit all of us to join their, big time, like a military recruiter. I told them that most of us have small children, and it's easier for us to meet at a home so our children can play. They immediately started trying to think of ways to work around this. I didn't want to hurt them and say that OUR quilt group is really just the best, thank you very much:) However, Kimberly and I talked about it and we thought it might be fun to have a "field trip" in November and go and work with them one time. So you should all be proud of what you contributed to this quilt, and know that there are people out there who are jealous of your skills!
The only thing I can think of that I have completed 100% was the wall hanging for the orphanage. Go Me! Wow, that's totally pathetic. So now we're working on our blocks for Darsha's challenge of a Korean Friendship Quilt. Here are the one's that have been made so far.
Joanna
Nicole
Kimberly
Lindsay
Darsha
I know that Karen has made some of hers too. I'm not sure about anybody else. Oh, and here's mine.
It says, "Cursed Quilt" in Hangul. When Joe asked his Korean tutor how to say cursed quilt in Korean, it took him a long time to get her to answer him - she just couldn't understand why you would ever want to say cursed quilt, hehehe. I have made, you guessed it, 80% of my blocks. But if all of you don't make your blocks, I won't have to make any more of my blocks, and you will be enabling an eighty-pecenter. Do you really want that on your conscience? Of course you don't, so make your blocks!:)
Sorry for the novel here, but now I can say that I have blogged 100% of all that I've done for the quilting group!!!
