Joy quilt....getting a push on it

Finally, the Joy quilt is ready for sandwiching, basting and quilting. The only space large enough to lay it out is our living room floor, with furniture pushed aside and the front door blocked. That means I have to finish up the basting tonight so our room is back to normal. I'm saving the final post of this quilt, complete with process, lessons learned, etc for Amy's Quilt Blogger festival in the fall!! And lots of stories with it, too.

And here it is sandwiched, and 505 basted (fabric glue). Toby has to put his stamp of approval on it and have a nap while I go have dinner.

on a roll

OK, we're on a roll this week. Yesterday - finished Garrett's quilt!! hand tacked the binding...for the first time in my quilt making history, the binding seemed very straightfoward. Nice to get to that point. Next quilt, I'll machine tack the binding, to give it a nice finished edge. Pix of garrett's quilt ..somewhere in here.
NOW!! zooming through Emma's quilt...decided to keep to the cobblestone theme, and do grid quilting rather than free motion. Had to work out how to handle the yellow blue and red (pix next post), without changing thread every 2 minutes, and also to not have the quilting thread over power the yellow and blue. SO solution...invisible thread on top, red on the bottom. Having some issues working out the tension so that the red thread does not pull through to the top, but I think I may have worked that out on the wall hanging portion of the project...so have just put my quilt sandwich together, machine is all suited up, have my face mask on (multi tasking of course!!), Toby and I are going to head out to get some chips...and then we are in for long haul tonight. GOAL!!! finish the quilting on Emma J's quilt tonight! and then just need to bind it...in time for Emma's potential visit this weekend! Rose, Garrett's quilt should be in the mail on Monday!!!