Two More Finishes

    This has been a very productive quilting weekend so far.  Today I put the finishing touches on 2 prayer/comfort quilts that are for my church quilt group.  The carpenter star is finished.  

I enjoyed quilting feathers in the diamond areas and the triangles top and bottom.  I changed to light gray thread for the purple diamonds so that the quilting shows up more.  At least I could see where I had quilted.

I simply meandered the border instead of doing more fancy quilting.

     My second finish was the squares and strips quilt made from my stash of scrap squares and strips. I did cut the white 2 ½” strips especially for this quilt.  This was a great quilt to also use scraps of leftover binding.  I simply quilted it with a large meander. 

    In the next few days, I hope to get back to finishing another UFO.

Afternoon of Quilting

       As I have done for several days recently, I spent the morning working in the yard.  After cleaning up and a short rest, I went back to quilting on the carpenter star quilt.  I have meandered all of the background and stitched-in-the-ditch to outline the center star and both inside and outside edge of the outer wheel.   

This afternoon I started free-motion quilting feathers in the star diamonds using dark gray thread. The feathers show up well on the green.  It is difficult to see the thread on the purple and that also made it more difficult to quilt because I could hardly see what I had quilted and where I needed to go. 

On the outer wheel I may find a purple thread or another color for the purple diamond
 areas. 
Tomorrow will be another great day for piecing or quilting!

One More Border to Add

        Very little sewing has gone on this week with guild meeting Tuesday morning and yard work 2 mornings.  I did manage to sew the dogwood quilt top together.  Here is the top except for the last simple border.  

Today I bought a green leaf print for the outer border. It is so large it is difficult to get a great photo.  It will be queen size.  I need to give some thought as to how to custom quilt it.  I hope to quilt vein lines in the leaves. I plan to take my time with the quilting so it won’t be finished very quickly.