Showing posts with label Vintage Dresses . Twinkle Stars. Show all posts
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Friday, October 11, 2019

2019 Finish Along: 4th Quarter Ambitions

The year of 2019 is winding down way faster then I'd like it too.  Now it's time to decide what can be finished in the three short months left in the year.  My third quarter ambitions for the 2019 Finish Along were a complete bust, zero, nada, zilch finishes for the quarter.  Is there any hope for fourth quarter finishes?


Maybe.  There were no finishes last quarter, but there was good progress on two or three projects. A shoe in finish is Vintage Dresses.

 Vintage Dresses
by 
Charise Randell

It's been quilted and trimmed, it just needs the label and binding.  I ended up ordering a fabric for the binding to finish out the progression of blues. That should be here this weekend, so this one should be an October finish.

Next up is Twinkle Stars.  

Twinkle Stars
Tutorial by Andrea Feldbush of Soscrappy

Just three more seams and this one will be ready for the borders.  I decided to finish out the diamonds along each edge using a pieced border, but those pieces should sew up pretty fast.  A final border of the background fabric to float the blocks and it will be ready for a backing.  This is supposed to be a Christmas gift so it really needs to get done soon. 

Also in the "bordering" stage is the Storm at Sea quilt for my bed.  

Storm at Sea
Paper Piecing Class by Carrie Randell (Quilter's Hideaway)

Just two borders left.  I bought a wide backing for this quilt, so that won't have to be pieced. It would be nice to start the new year with a new quilt on our bed. 

The last possible finish is Daisy Chain. 

 Daisy Chain Mystery
2019 Little Bunny Quilts Mystery
by Alison of Honey, Bunny & Doll Designs

This quilt also just needs borders and a backing.  Borders always take longer than I think they will.  Plus, I'm not sure what I'm going to do on this one. There's not enough of any one fabric to use as a border, nor is there enough to make a scrappy one.  I don't have a lot of those tans in my stash or scraps, so I'll need to do some stash shopping to see what else will work. 

If I can finish all four of these, that will bring the total number of finishes for 2019 to seven, which would be a tie with the most finishes I've had in one year. (Seven finishes happened in 2010, 2011 and 2017, that seems to be my max capacity).  

Linking up the 2019 Finish Along via That's Sew Julie.  Good luck to everyone on reaching their 4th quarter and 2019 quilty goals.