Godspeed, Quilts

Two more quilts went in the mail this morning...the Train Rag Quilt finally sold (to a lovely customer in Canada...so I've now sold to Canada and Japan...I'm world famous!) and I finished Kelly's Man Quilt just in time to get it to him for his birthday on the 31st (assuming no more blizzards, that is!)

Some pics of KMQ:

 Not a great shot, but what I could do at home.

 Finally, a bed without pet hair.

The backing is blue with fish all over it.  I won't lie, it hurt my heart more than a little to part with this one.  I'm not sure I'll do it any time soon, but I think I'm going to need to do another blue quilt. 

More Pics and Some Progress

 I decided having a treadmill in all my pictures was getting old, so I took this top out to the living room and had a little photo shoot.  Hooray Christmas.

 Close ups of the I Spy squares.

 This one is basted and ready for quilting...as soon as I figure out what I want to do with it.

 The Man Quilt got put together last night, and I'd love to call it a finished top, but it's just a little short...it's about 72 inches long, which isn't quit twin length.  I didn't have anything in my stash that I could use for a border (at least not that would look good) so there'll be a Joann's run today so I can finish this.  I'm hoping to have it done by the end of the week, but we'll see. 

And finally, the picture of Kini and my horrible job hiding her Christmas present.

Design Exhaustion Monday

What a weekend!  I accomplished the following:

* 16 blocks for the I Spy Log Cabin quilt (which I'm calling "The Fun Grandma's Quilt"...maybe) - they're 16x16 finished.

* All 20 blocks for ISLC sewn together - top finished! I don't have a picture of the finished top yet, but I'll get one later tonight.
* Backing bought for ISLC - waiting for space on the floor to clear up before moving forward with that one.
* 28 out of 30 blocks done for a man quilt...I have to say, I'm a little in love with this one.  It's all blues, and it's the 'friendship circle' block.

Lots of scraps used up this weekend.  Enough that there's a discernable hole in my stash, even!  I thought I wouldn't have enough blues to make this quilt, but it turns out...I still have a bunch left.  Yikes.  The recipient's birthday is the 31st, so I'm hoping to get it done in time to ship out this weekend, fingers crossed. 

I also got my room cleaned up enough that we can put the new printer my folks got us in there, to avoid any more kitty mishaps.  Nick wanted to get a copy of Kini's paws to send to my dad, but it's too high up.  Oh darn.  :-D 

I also finished the critters' gifts this weekend (everyone's getting their own fleece-covered pillow!). I had a great picture of Kini being oblivious to my awesome hiding place (on top of the TV), but apparently it didn't upload.  Oh well.  I'll post pics of those later. I'm also dying to post pictures of The One Gift (every year, there's One Gift that is perfect and will rock the socks off the recipient...every year I try to go for more than one, but invariably I run out of creative juices after just one), but I don't know if the recipient reads this so I won't post it yet.  Suffice it to say, I can't wait for Christmas.  :-D