DONE!

I LOVE that word… DONE (or FINISHED, or FINALLY DONE!)!  I have several “dones” to share with you today.  First of all, I went to retreat with my friends and I got the G9P DONE!! 

YYAAAAHHHHHHH!  That project has been in the works for about 1 1/2 years now, and had become the elephant in the middle of the room.  It weighed heavily on my mind that it was incomplete.  I must say that I LOVE the way it looks.  I also must say that I will NOT do anything that contains that many curved seams coming together at intersections for a L-O-N-G time!  I’m over my need to do curved piecing for a while (unless it is something simple like a drunkard’s path… never say “never”!).

 

And my next DONE…  I have been working for a couple of weeks on a show quilt for a customer.  Now please realize that I can’t really show you the quilt because it is her original design, and it is hers to reveal, so I am just going to show you a little peek at the quilting.  This is the first time I have done show quilting for someone else.  I found it hard to do, because 1)  I tend to be a perfectionist, 2) I tend to be a people pleaser so I called her about umpteen times because I did not want to do anything to her quilt without her knowing what was going on, 3) working on someone else’s quilt of this caliber adds a whole other layer of stress on top.  That said, here is a peek at her quilt.

And lest I should get a big ego over this, quilting continues to humble me as I go. I have just spent 8 hours using my new best friend…

Yep, I had 2 rows of bad tension on a pantograph design.  You would think I would have it all figured out by now!!  But in the middle of trying to fix Gussie Fay I was adjusting tension to try and get the loops to go away.  I obviously went the WRONG WAY with the tension knob and had 8 hours of “fun” frogging.  But, in keeping with the theme of today’s post, it too is DONE!

Now to let you know what a bad friend I am… I went to retreat, with my camera, and did I take even 1 picture of my friends I have not seen in 2 years?  NOOOO!  I’m so embarrassed!  My excuse is that I  was so busy working and visiting I didn’t take the time.  I did snap 1 picture of a friendly fox that came right up to the cabin we were staying in.  We were some concerned because she seemed “too friendly”.  Even in a state park you don’t expect the wild animals to come within 10 feet of a porch holding  8 gawking ladies.  But it sure was a beautiful creature!

 

That’s all for now… I’m off to re-stitch the 2 rows I just ripped out, and then another project will be DONE!

Kat