Friday (Almost) Finish: Spooky Salsa

The view from my easy chair. Binding...quilt 1 of 5.

So it's an ALMOST finish...the binding is half stitched down.  Ha! I love the neon green thread used for the pumpkins.  

10 (or 11) Quilty Little Secrets

I do have a WIP Wednesday post....but it has to wait until I get home around 9:30ish tonight to upload the pictures and get it posted.  So, stand by for that.  But for right now, I thought this was cool.

So I saw this through Molli Sparkles' blog, which led me to link up with 13 Spools' post.  "Quilty" secrets....they're like butts...for better or worse, we all have them.  Here are my 10ish....what are yours?  

1)  I prefer to applique than to piece.  I find that for me, most piecing is repetitive and boring and I have a very short attention span.  With applique every piece presents a different challenge, so it keeps my attention. 

2)  Mauve, sage, peach, beige and dusty blue...colors I do not choose or buy willingly.  In fact, if I have to use them, that high pitched squeal you hear is me whining about it.

3)  Choosing the fabrics is my favorite part of the entire process, and I love making weird combinations. 

4)  I run over pins and I do not give an eff.    

5)  I don't prewash my fabrics, partially out of laziness, partially because most quality fabrics nowadays seldom if ever run and I'm not terribly worried, and partially because I like the look of the quilt after it has been washed as a whole after quilting.

  

6)  Quilt police and quilt snobs who feel the need to provide their uninvited criticism with an air of superiority get under my skin fast.  That's not saying I don't tolerate criticism...y'all know what I'm talking about...the bragging, belitting, and oneupmanship that crops up at shows and in groups.  Ain't nobody got time for dat! 

7)  I LOVE making scrap quilts.  I prefer making those to "regular" quilts, and I will often adapt quilts that ask for yardage so that I can use my scraps.

8)  I have a ton of UFOs.  Remember that short attention span thing?  Yeah.  That is a real issue sometimes.  I do come back to them periodically.  When I feel like it.

9)  My sewing room looks like a nuclear fallout zone.  But I find I have a hard time being creative in a neat, clean, sterile space.  I gotta see my stuff everywhere like a messy museum. 

10)  I hate sewing with flannel.  Love flannel quilts, but HATE sewing with it.  It's not just the lint factor, but that stuff stretches to beat the band


As a side note, my folks were in the paper this week talking about generational quilts at the Oregon State fair.  The quilt they're showing was made by my great grandmother, for my dad...and there's polyester pants in that quilt!  CLICK HERE to see the article.  

Whew!

It's been almost a month?!

In my defense, I've been stupidly busy.  This summer, I swear, has been one of the worst, weirdest and yet strangely, more fun summers in recent memory.  We've had two deaths and few other losses, three shop hops that (almost completely) overlapped one another...I say almost because there was a week between one and another, but the third overlapped both.  Plus the bus from Sisters and the State Fair.  And, I got the heck out of dodge last week and went on a vacation to Eastern Oregon.

Not that it needs to be said, but I'll say it anyway....VERY little sewing has been done over the past few weeks.  No WIPs, no finishes, no nothing.  I am behind on so much it's just stupid.  But hey, this week I'll be gearing up a little more.

I have a binding to put on Joey's wedding quilt, and blocks to finish on Isabelle's.  I am appliqueing the "Quilt Walk" sign for the State Fair (mom gets to quilt it), and I have a couple small projects for fall that I need to get crackin' on.

Break time is over, time to sew!