Goals and deadlines.....

Nothing like having a goal (deadline) to get you moving on  projects.  Of course, these goals/deadlines are self-imposed!)

I had taken on a charity quilt from my night-time guild and realized the day before the meeting that I hadn't quilted it yet.  Got it done and bound with a couple of hours to spare. 

That was Monday. 

Tomorrow (Thursday) is my day-time guild and I was hoping to get at least two quilts quilted so that I could take them for show-n-tell.  One of those quilt was one I was working on at our recent retreat.  

I had gotten almost all of the blocks made at retreat, but that was it.  The whole quilt had been cut out previous to the retreat and maybe I would have gotten more of it done, but I mis-cut a couple blocks.

This is where I was at retreat.

Got home and remedied the problem blocks and put this thing together and today I got it on and off the long arm.

I used a panto called Azalea on this one.  It kind of went with the floral French General fabrics that I used.  

This quilt came together with the thought of trying to use up the rest of my French General fabric (which I did a pretty good job of).  So, it is very scrappy.

The backing was made up of 3-4 large pieces of pink French General and I have pretty much used all that up, too.  

I was finally able to incorporate my left over fabrics into the regular stash and empty one large Rubbermaid container.

The second quilt that I wanted to get made and quilted was a candy/candy bar challenge.  The challenge was several years ago.  I bought the fabric, but never got around to making the quilt until recently.  

Can you guess the candy?

This is my Good'n'Plenty quilt.  

I quilted it using the "Bubbles" panto.  

I used a fuchsia minky backing which really shows up the quilting.  You can see the color better in the previous picture.  I don't know why the lower picture looks orange-y; but believe me.....this is fuchsia pink!

I think this quilt would be a great teenage girl quilt.

Anyways, I just need to put bindings on these two quilts, but at least they are ready for me to take to guild tomorrow  for show-n-tell.  

Now.....there are 2-3 more quilts on the "to-be-quilted" pile, but no real  deadlines other than I  am on a roll right now.  So we will see.  I am just glad to have done what I have.

I'll probably be putting bindings on in the next day or two anyways.

So....happy quilting everyone.  It feels so good to get things finished.