One quilt bound - another one outline quilted!

Yippy!  I officially have my Stashbee quilt from two years ago completely finished!  It is called Flowering Snowball and has blocks from around the world.  I love it!  I know I showed that it was quilted a couple of days ago, but I wanted to show it again all bound.

This was my One Monthly Goal for July, my OPAM for July, and my Patchwork Times draw number for July.  Thank you blogland for giving me reasons to finish projects!

Here is a snippet of the back.

On a side note, I got Jodi's Lattice all outlined and ready to fill in with the pretty stuff.  I hope to have it done this week.

Today I link up with:

Freemotion by the River 

 Esther's Wips on Wednesday

Quilter's Monday

Crazy Mom Quilts
Weight Loss Wednesday
Midweek Makers
Lets Bee Social

Flowering Snowball is quilted!

I just finished quilting "Flowering Snowball".  It was a Stashbee quilt and I absolutely love it!  I have decided that it can also be an eye spy quilt because there are a lot of hidden pictures in all of the many fabrics.

My neice, Abbey, came to visit for a week and she loves to sew quilts.  I gave her some of my old scraps and taught her how to make stars.  She is making the star quilt you see on my design wall.  It is fun to see her having fun with all of my old scraps.  She is only 12 by the way.

A neighbor brought over this beautiful white dress that she crocheted for my new grand daughter.  It is so beautiful and takes so much time.  Abbey is showing it in the photo.

Abbey took a picture of me.  I look pretty bad.  We didn't do makeup or hair today.

I am linking up with:

Let's Bee Social

Esther's WOW

Weight Loss Wednesday

Needle and Thread Thursday

Sew, Stitch, Snap & Share #8

Midweek Makers
Oh Scrap
Crazy Mom Quilts

After many years, Christmas Log Cabin is a finished top!

I don't even know how many years I have spent trying to finish this intricate log cabin Christmas quilt.  It is a joy to have it done.  I didn't plan to quilt is soon, but it is pressed so nice and crisp right now that I laid it on a spare bed and am going to try to baste it right away so I don't have to repress it later.  I also plan to make pillowcases and pillow covers to match from the leftover fabric.  I purchased two kits many years ago of the same fabric with no plans of what to make out of it.  I just knew I loved the fabric.  Later, I added greens, golds, reds, and blacks to it so I would have enough to make this quilt.  I made sure most pieces had flecks of metalic gold in them.   

This quilt was also a draw number on my Patchwork Times list that I didn't get done a few months back.  Now I am back on track and have completed everything on the list so far.

I also got my Flowering Snowball pressed and on the quilt frames.  I hope to baste and quilt it this week.  This is this July's draw number for Patchwork Times and my One Monthly Goal.  I guess I have two weeks to get it done.

I am linking up with:

Show and Tell Monday with Bambi

Moving it Forward Monday

Main Crush Monday

Monday Making

BOM's Away

Deana: July Goal Recap

July goal assessment...

1.  Piece my new QAL.  

THE FABRIC DID NOT ARRIVE SO ONE WILL BE PUSHED BACK SEVERAL MONTHS.

2.  Quilt Mom's Gold and Yellow Medallion.  The outline quilting is done so now it is time for all the fun filler stuff.

BEFORE

AFTER - FINISHED JULY 7th

3.  Make a Stashbee block.

FINISHED JULY 6th

I made three birds.  We were asked to name them.

Spooky Louie Chickadee

Yellow Bellied Toad Swallow

Black Bottom Fluff Jay

4.  Participate in the Block Lotto.  This month it is 9" blocks of house pets.  I have some fun dog patterns that I want to make up.

FINISHED JULY 6th - I MADE A BIRD INSTEAD OF A DOG

5.  Get the outline quilting done on my Shimmer Braid Quilt.

BEFORE

AFTER - FINISHED July 25th

I got much more than the outline stitching done.  The top is completely quilted and ready for the binding!  Yay!

 and bound

6.  Sew up a sample for my family round robin.  I can't show it to you, but I will say that it is a little like a New York Beauty.

FINISHED JULY 3rd

7.  Blanket Stitch around Mom's horse and do all the silhouettes.Mom does not like to do machine blanket stitch.  She also does not like unfinished projects.  My Dorinda Quilt is not quite hand quilted.  She is finishing up the hand quilting for me while I do the blanket stitch on the horse quilt for her.

FINISHED THE STITCHING AROUND THE HORSE

No silhouettes ready yet.

8.  Plan, purchase fabric for, and cut out Brielle's Braid.

FINISHED July 24th - got a ton of sewing done on it too!

9.  Do a row in my July family round robin. This one is also a secret.

FINISHED JULY 4th

10.  Create the next Americana row pattern for August.

FINISHED!

11.  Create the next Spring row pattern for August.

FINISHED!

12.  Finish my Flowering Snowball Quilt top complete with borders.  

BEFORE

AFTER

I am linking up with:

Design Wall Monday
Monday Makers
Main Crush Monday
BOMs Away