Come sail away

My Regatta is finished!!!!!!  Roseanne has been hosting a Regatta Sew A Long that began January 1st.  I love the pattern designed by Block M Quilts so I decided to jump in and sew it.  Especially since there was no deadline for it to be finished. 

I used a strip pack from Island Batik called Paisley Dot Brights and some yardage white from my stash.  This was some of the fabric Island Batik gave us in our Ambassador boxes this past year.  It has such fun springy colors.  And I am certainly longing for Spring!

I had planned all along to do some cool custom quilting.  But in the end my longarm decided I should do an allover freehand design-you notice I didn't argue with her:)  

 I  found the perfect wide backing at JoAnn's in one of my favorite colors.

I had leftover strips from the pack and made a pieced scrappy binding.  I love my Regatta!  Thanks Roseanne for alerting me to this pattern and for hosting the sew a long:)   As soon as I get bettter photos I will be listing it in my Etsy shop. 

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More Hearts

I am loving making a variety of Valentine table runners.  Last Thursday Connie reminded us of her tutorials for Heart table runners, you can see her post HERE.  That was all it took for me to finally decide what to make with this pink fabric I picked up at JoAnn Fabrics the week before.  Thanks Connie for the wonderful tutorial.  I pieced it Thursday afternoon, quilted and bound it Friday morning and had it in my ETSY shop before noon.

  A fun hook swirl to keep it whimsical, and a piano key border spaced every 1.5". 

Friday afternoon I got started on quilting my Island Batik projects for my day to post for the Four Season's blog hop on Thursday Feb 1st.  Well things didn't proceed as I had thought they would.  My finger met up close and personal with my longarm😬😝😬😢  OMG fellow quilters, don't let it happen to you.  Scared the stuffing right out of me.  It hurt like the dickens and it throbbed like crazy-but hardly any bleeding. Seriously I bleed more with a single pin prick!  That is what I thought was really weird.  The other weird was within 20 minutes it stopped hurting and throbbin.  Cleaned it up, wrapped it up and within an hour I went back to quilting.  So it went through my middle finger of my left hand and it was on the side of the finger, so not through the bone, thank goodness for that.  It wasn't even sore the next day unless I applied pressure there, so all is good again.  

 I finally put my Regatta quilt on the frame this afternoon!  

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Regatta progress

This weekend I made progress has been made on my Regatta quilt.  Fellow blog friend, Roseanne from Home sewn by us, is having a sew along for it.  The pattern is by Daniela from Block M Quilts.

 I am using an Island Batik strip pack and white solid for mine.  I don't have all the strips sewn together yet, just one colored strip and one white strip paired up so far.

I also finished up a Jelly Roll Waves flimsy.  I hope to get it quilted before the end of January. The pattern is by Myra at Busy Hands Quilts.

 And we had fun watching the birds swarm around the feeder.  There were also lots of birds in two trees waiting there turn at the feeder.  I guess the warmer temp yesterday brought them all out of their nests.

Today's agenda is to quilt another Valentine runner and go to lunch with a friend.  What are you doing today?

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