A Second Small 2016 Finish

I finished a small project today, again for our church Youth Auction later this Spring.

            (No doubt you will recognize my yo-yo quilt on the bed pillows.)      

The donated baseball fabric was 60" wide and 60" long.  I decided to take the quick path to a finish, and left it that size --- no borders, just red binding.

There was a very narrow red stripe between all the rows of hats, bats, baseballs, and the "Baseball Bats" words, all of which are about 3" high.  I simply stitched with red thread through all the red stripes, used a solid red backing, and finished with the red binding.  Very simple and fast!

When my friend, who drove me to a doctor's appointment earlier this week, said she needed to stop at Hobby Lobby for some thread, I saw that Texas Rangers baseball fabric.  Of course, I had to have enough to cover a little 12"x16" pillow to go with the quilt.  It is a perfect color match! Hopefully, some little boy will convince his parents to buy the quilt and pillow for him at the auction.  Certainly it's not a prize-winner set, but I think some kid will like it.

Now I've got to finish two little projects for the guild group by Monday!  At least I don't have any doctor or therapy appointments until then, so maybe --- just maybe --- I can get those finished!  They both are also simple.

Then maybe I can get something started that I want to do for myself.  I have many ideas whirling around in my head (notice I didn't say 'brain').

Another friend stopped by today with a big surprise.  She started quilting with our church group a couple of years ago, but with a very sick husband now, she brought a lot of her fabrics to me and told me to keep what I want and pass the rest on to two other quilter friends.  I kept quite a bit, but told the next quilter in line to come get what she wanted, and we sacked up the rest for the third friend.  I didn't keep as much as they got.  I reminded them how old I am, and said I won't live long enough to sew up all the fabric in my house, and I'm sure that's true!  I felt a little guilty keeping any of it.  I forgot to take a picture, but maybe I can when I get some plastic tubs to store it in next week. Anyway, it's all nice --- Moda, Timeless Treasures, Thimbleberries, etc.    Most of it she had bought at that last quilter's estate sale we went to.

All I can say is:  I need to be quilting 24/7, or my son will have a lot of fabric to get rid of someday!  And just think  --- one month (1/12) of 2016 is already in the past!  Where did it go?

--- "Love"