Have I ever mentioned how much I enjoy binding? I really do. I love the rhythmic stitching motion. It's soothing and settling. So I often volunteer to do the binding on group quilts. (I dislike giving blocks for group quilts ... not because I don't want to give or participate, but because of comments someone once made about my blocks in a swap. It hurt my feelings and I'm just afraid to stitch up bad blocks for a quilt someone else is having to piece. So I bind.)
I volunteered to do so for a quilt we were doing for a gal in our group that had breast cancer. This is the third of these quilts I've bound in the last year for our Stitcher's group . . .
What I wasn't thinking about when I also volunteered to bind the guild's President's Quilt for this year, was the possibility that they might end up in my lap at the same time (figuratively speaking, of course)!
I got those two quilts finished and had the urge to do some things for me (or at least for my own) . . .
After getting Joc's approval, I pulled fabrics for it. It was a super easy thing to do, now that most of my stash is in the storage room! Whoop whoop!
I also pulled one of the UFOs I'd purchased last year from an estate sale, and got busy putting it together.
There are enough leftover blocks to do a table mat, and maybe a smaller (single block) table mat. Which would make this ensemble just perfect for our screened room . . .
I also pulled out this big boy . . .
Then ... I did another thing. April's been a really quilty month. I took a longarm class, along with my friend, Gail!
I wrapped up the month with an evening with the girls. I love our Thursdays together! This night, mommy and daddy were the meeting hosts, so we all went upstairs for dinner. The girls set a lovely table complete with a quilted table runner and a vase of flowers. They called it a "peaceful and quiet" dinner!
