Procrastination No More

I'm Finally binding the "Get Well Soon" Quilt! Yippeee!

I had put the top together so fast, had it ready to go, hand quilted half of it out, when I thought that I had forgotten to wash the RED corduroy... I then put this project on the shelf, because picking it apart, unpinning etc. was just to much for me to think about.

Then I thought about NOT using the corduroy because this corduroy was much stiffer then what I had used in the past. In past quilts I have used BIG wide soft corduroy, which makes for such a snugly blanket, it's glorious.
This was a tighter weave and the only red I could find, so I went with it.


This was a bit stiff and it hurt my fingers to hand quilt. But I was inspired by my own childhood "sick quilt" made of red corduroy, so it was a must to use on this.

As you can see above. I DID, rip out all the hand stitching, and started over machine quilting it.

I am SO HAPPY I did. It was fun to do, and since it's been washed again, Its so snuggly, my daughter was trying to sleep with it last night and I didn't even have the binding on it yet...


I'm so a Glad I did this project. Thanks Tonya, for this opportunity!
I might not have ever made it...otherwise.

I love it.

Get Well

Ok, I'm back at it... I took a break on this... I have to say the letters went together so quick and easy. but setting the stars in the sky really twisted a few hairs on my head... Anywho, yeah, it's more complex, But I just knew what I wanted for this, and I will be so happy when its done and it's put to use! My hubby has first dibs... I asked him if he could at least give me aheads up when he plans on getting sick...

I've gotten to practice my houses, letters, wonky stars, crosses, bottles, apples,curves, and a challenging nurse... (And a good amount of patience...) But it was worth it.... ;-)

now on to quilting...

All wonky

V here, from BumbleBeans....I'm getting a start on my GET WELL SOON quilt... My surger, which I prefer to use for this kind of sewing,(much faster) is in to be fixed, so I'm poking a long on my wonky bottles, apples, wonky stars and nurse! My camera had to be sent in, which explains the crummy cell phone pics...sorry! (updated. spent all day on this...pheew.)

Just a joke on the XXX!!! Its almost halloween! There will be a Red cross on that bottle!

Ready set sew!

Hi Everyone, Victoria here from Bumble beans... I did a priority HOPE quilt, (ROBIN'S HOPE) last month, and really enjoyed it, so thought I'd give her another go! I had been thinking about a project, and I think it will work nicely with the guidelines Tonya has set for this winter project...

Winter...sigh. not ready for that yet...

Anyway, When I was a little one, if I had to stay home from school because I was sick, we had a quilt we called THE SICK QUILT, yeah, I know, it doesn't sound very pleasing, BUT, It was an awesome quilt. It was washed so many times, the cotton was like butter, and the top, was just a simple red lightweight corduroy... It was big, puffy, very warm, and you could really snuggle into it, and feel better under it... (especially during those cold MN winters with only a wood stove to heat our house!)

This quilt now sits in my bedroom on top of our dogs crate... it keeps them warm in front of a drafty door.

So, I wanted to make a new quilt, rename it. The Get Well quilt, and thought, something with the words on it, houses, bottle of medicine etc, and there you have it, it fits in nicely with all the little crazy things we can do with this project...

I am excited and ready to sew!~ bring it on! ;-)

-V