Monday, July 29, 2013

Organize it weekend...

It was a hot and muggy weekend here in Georgia so it was a good weekend to stay inside the quilt studio and organize!  I matched up some more finished tops with some backs.

This is the fabric I used to back my dancing 9-patch!  There is even enough left over to make a storage bag for the quilt!   When I find a fabric I like that is on sale I (a really good sale...this was only 3.50 a yard after sale and coupons!)  I usually buy 6-8 yards and add it to the backing basket.

This camping fabric came out of the same basket and will back a quilt going to the Ronald McDonald house.

Not sure where this one with the pink batik backed quilt will end up!

I also got some blocks put together for a Quilt of Valor.  Last September guild members brought patriotic blocks to the meeting.  I've had them on the wall, in a box, and pinned together since January and just didn't run them through the machine...finally they are a quilt top!

Maybe today I'll dig through the basket and find a backing for this one....

8 comments:

regan said...

Wow! You got so much accomplished! Yay!

Janet O. said...

Look at you cruisin' through the quilt tops. Doesn't that feel good?
BTW, I do the same thing with fabrics on sale, but I have been known to buy up to 9 yards if the price is right (sidewalk sale sometimes has $1-$2 a yard fabric) so I can back really big quilts if I should ever happen to make one. : )

Loris said...

Love the birds :-) and the QOV blocks are beautiful! Good inside stitching weather!

Tonya Ricucci said...

you are getting stuff done!!! I am poking along - I'm a snail.

Frog Quilter said...

Yay. So glad you are organizing. The only bad thing is that you have to do it regularly as the fairies sneak in and make a mess. Who messed up my room? Hugs.

Merilyn said...

The blocks for the Quilt of Valour look great! I'm afraid I'm not that organised with backings, most often they are the last thing I think about!!!! Not to nice that really hot and muggy weather, here we're still cold, hoping for an early Spring!!!!

Sherrill said...

I LOVE the birds..was thinking the instant I saw it how it would go perfectly for the raffle quilt!

cityquilter grace said...

ooh batik as a backing? that is gorgeous...hope it was on sale...