I Spy a Princess T-shirt Antique Rug Cat

First finish of the week - I bound and labeled my grandson's "I Spy" quilt! It will be delivered to him in February if not sooner. It makes me sad but some of my grandchildren prefer fleece blankets to quilts so he may or may not use it. I won't give up though and will continue to make quilts for the grandchildren.

My husband's T-shirt quilt, the one I made with his T-shirts without asking him first, lol. He'd actually forgotten about it and is looking forward to hanging the quilt in his home office. Anyway, it went to the machine quilter on Tuesday and I picked it up on Saturday. A quick turn around but now it needs binding so you can guess what I'll be doing this coming week. I'll show a photo of the full quilt when its finished.

My granddaughter's Princess baby quilt - I couldn't bring myself to cut the fabric apart to piece so I made a simple block quilt. My daughter asked for a smaller size quilt than a crib quilt so this quilt was finished and off the machine quilter at the same time as the T-shirt quilt. Truthfully, this baby quilt looks plain so I plan to scallop the border to try to dress up the quilt. Won't be any fun to bind but I'll deal with it.

 So rummaging around in the UFO box, I found this project with four blocks finished. I've added 12 blocks (picture is not the final layout) and it would have been 14 blocks finished but I discovered I'd sewn one of the fabric strips in upside down. That means a date with Jack the ripper and I just couldn't do it. I'll tackle it on Monday. I plan to make this lap quilt larger so I'll need what, 11 blocks more? I think I have plenty of reds but need more browns and I hope I have enough of the fabric to make that many more.

 This is the pattern, "Antique Rug", by Aardvark Quilts. The fabrics I'm using are brushed cottons, flannels, and lightweight upholstery fabrics. What I don't use for this project will be used for the backing. I haven't decided if I will keep and quilt it or donate the quilt top.

"If I fits, I sits."

 Jesse provides us with many photo ops and entertainment.

Today I'm working on a stalled out project, sorting through our photos. I've gone through boxes and boxes of photos and sorted them by approximate time frame and subject. Some photos were even put in a special box marked "Shred"! In my defense, there are only so and so many photo albums our kids will want when we're gone. The boxes are all lined up on our dining room table and have been there since the beginning of January. The cats have accepted this as normal, so normal that Jesse is currently taking a nap in one of the boxes.

I occasionally still add a quilt book to the Donate or Sell stacks. Progress has definitely slowed down. To successfully declutter, I have to be in a bad mood or stressed out which apparently hasn't been happening enough lately. That is a good thing but just maybe I need to put myself in the Git-R-Done mode!

Until next time, Mayleen