Progress and Quilt Owners

At last I feel like I've made some progress on this quilt. 

It has been two weeks since I last posted.  I wish I could say I was busy stitching away during the past two weeks but the truth is I did very little sewing until this past Friday.  I have been busy at work with my project kicking off. Plus it is getting close to peanut season.  So things are ramping up at work.  Then add to it my husband has been home for the past couple of weeks and I have been spending time with him.  And then there is the fact that since I am the first one home, so I get to cook dinner, do dishes, and laundry. Plus pack lunches and do the bills. This house wife thing is cutting into my sewing time. Starting to feel a little empty nest syndrome even though two adult children are still at home.

Friday, I had to leave work early because they were using cleaning chemicals outside my office.  Since my work was done, my day got to be short.  I came home, did dishes, mixed up a batch of bread and took a nap.  Then I started sewing.  I got the last two rows sewn onto the quilt. Saturday I got the inner border on before heading to church for an activity.  Today I got the outer border on and the binding made. Progress at last.

With the binding made and ready to go, I just need to focus on the back. I have the fabric so it is just a matter of cutting and piecing the back.  I should be able to get it on Millie this week. I hope to quilt it next Saturday. It won't be done in time for our trip but I will get the two of them done for Christmas.

I finally decided that this is Viri's quilt. Hence the pink border.  As I was looking at the fabric for the second quilt I realized it has more pastels in it.  Viri is definitely not a pastel personality.  She like her mother is rather bold.  So she gets the quilt made of bolder colors.

Have you ever started a quilt for one person and realize it is really for someone else?  I know that has happened to me before. Sometimes quilts dictate who they should be for such as Viri's quilt. Sometimes you are thinking about that person so much while you are making it that it comes to represent that person to you.  That was the case with the friendship braid quilt I gave to Killian.  Sometimes you just realize that a person needs it, as in the small rail fence quilt I gave to my brother.

I am not sure just how quilts claim owners but I do know that there are times that they do.  I guess it is all part of the magic of quilting. Who are you quilting for?