End of September Already?!

These days seem to fly by! If it wasn't for Patty at Elm Street Quilts I probably wouldn't have noticed! It's been a fun month of quilt shows, meetings and all kinds of quilty goodness! How I got anything done I'm still trying to figure it out! I think I've been sleepquilting. Wouldn't that be wonderful!!!! 

And now it's time for our OMG moment! Yes I finished my border!!! But I also finished the whole quilt! I'm sewing on the label now, but for the most part it's done and I'm so happy with it! Thank you Patty for the motivation to complete another project.

This is from another of Pat Sloan's QAL's. It's called In The Summer Time and each block has a story. Our summers have been full of Adventures, day trips around our state (at the time this quilt represents it's when we lived in Florida). We would go on what I would lovely refer to as Adventure Wednesdays. The day trips usually would happen on a Wednesday, but at times not. We went to aquariums, museums, parks, beaches, and sometimes go back to explore the area more. This quilt represents our trips we took in the summer of 2011...mostly anyway. I haven't gone through all the blocks with Little T yet, I hope when I do he looks back with fond memories and love the quilt as much as I do. We didn't go on any adventures this past summer and I think he misses it. He made a comment on how we didn't do anything this summer. I feel terrible about it since he's in 10th grade this year! But with hubby's crazy schedule it made it hard to plan things out. But I already have plans for next year!

I hope your September was filled with exciting days and projects getting finished and loved! Now off to see what Octobers OMG project will be!

Sheila

Another Month, Another Goal

Boy do I need it this month! I'm having a hard time staying focused...too much on my plate maybe or my iron is low and causing havoc! It happens every now and then. Usually I just need to sit down and write out what I need to do, what needs to get done first, what can wait and what has no possibility of getting completed in the time frame I'm looking at! But there is one project I know I want do or at least I want to get the last border on. I'm piecing the border and it seems to be taking forever! I think the gremlins are unstitching while I sleep! Have you ever felt like that? Well with this border I do! It's for the QAL with Pat Sloan, In The Summer Time. I'm in love with how it turned out and you would think I would have had it quilted and binding on snuggling away under it, but no I'm fighting with the endless border! hahahaa

So my One Monthly Goal is to finish the border and get it on the Summer Time quilt! 

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal September Linkup.

Can you see the striped border I'm working on on my old workhorse! I love this sweet, green heavy machine! I call him Sigmund, as in the Sea Monster... He was giving me grief snapping my thread, end up being the timing. Once I got him in time to the music we were humming along again! 

So if you need help keeping motivated and getting a project done, visit Elm Street and sign up! It's just the thing you need to keep you in line!

Sheila