Insanity Quilt

 Well thought I would just start off with my APIP#17 - Insanity by Rhonda Pearce.  I have become obsessed with this quilt and thoroughly enjoying piecing all these little hexies. I have attached my summary progress report as of this morning when I completed Row 7 of 18.  Row 8 will turn the corner for the quilt center and I am sooooooooo anxious to get this row done, but I must put some time in for other projects as well.

APIP#2 - Bloom and Sew; Gail Pan 2025 BOM - I have finally started hand quilting this project.  I am using a clam shell pattern, chosen as this was one of my mother's quilting patterns. This is me at a program yesterday called Patchwork Tales.  It is a community event with story telling and many forms of arts/crafts being demonstrated and displayed.  My guild, York County Quilters, was present for a couple hours in the afternoon displaying various quilts (Crazy Quilts, Art Quilts, Vintage and Traditional) I was demonstrating hand quilting and so enjoyed experience.  Because my quilt was not completed, I was also able to show to all the children the various layers of a quilt and let them feel the soft batting. The children were fascinated by just watching me stitch.  It was a fun afternoon!

APIP#18 - Wrapped Ribbon Table Runner"s" - Quiltworks

I completed one of these table runners in August and reported it finished in my last post.  Well I am teaching this runner to my Stitchin Friends quilt club and have completed a second runner and have a third one cut and ready for a class tomorrow on how to do the cutting.  So I have placed this back on the "in-process" status.

Here is the top I just completed, and yet to quilt.  I am considering machine quilting this one with diagonal lines, with thread color matching the stripes.

That is pretty much all I have accomplished since my last post.  I am enjoying all my projects, and it is good to have some machine work as well as hand work and hand quilting all going at once.  Variety is the spice of life, right?