Quilt 37 - Raspberries!

I officially quit doing long arm quilting for others this past week when I had another birthday pass. After nine years, I thought it was time to get moving on some more of my quilts. It was a hard decision as I had so many wonderful customers but I can already tell I made the right decision!

Here is the first quilt I made with leftovers from another quilt.

 I've always been a fan of strippy quilts!

 Always the close-up and 

the backing! Why do I like fun backs?? I guess it's the surprise factor and also a way to use up the rest of the extra pieces. About an 1/8" of a yard of fabric is all that was left of these scraps.

Week Sixteen - Quilt Thirteen - Chinese Coins!

 Chinese Coins Strippy Quilt is finished! Let's see, this was begun in May 2009. Guess it's about time for a finish! It took such a short time to put those blocks and sashing together.

We get side-tracked sometimes and the projects go into a box . . . sometimes never to show up again. 

As usual, I pieced the back. The flowers were part of the front of the quilt and the binding was the perfect amount, leftover from the original guild challenge quilt I made.

Week Twelve - Quilt Nine - Improvisational Table Runner

 I began with some scraps from my Fall Tablecloth of last year. . .

 and pulled a few more from the scrap basket that just might go . . .

 and here is the finished quilt! An improvisationally made table runner, which actually sits on an old sewing machine table from many years ago.

Here is a little close-up. For more details, see the post on my blog, Quilting by Judith. Such fun to make and not know the outcome until it is finished!