It has been a very long time but yesterday I spent most of the day just doing things for myself.  This included reading a LOT and quilting!

Before lunch I got most of the cutting done for Emily’s quilt and had started piecing the blocks.  The cutting was hurting my back though so I quit for a few hours and read.  Around dinner time I had an unexpected guest – my friend Sarah came up!  So we got dinner and chatted together and then spent the evening in my sewing room and I got the blocks all ready to be sewn together.

After Sarah left I sewed all 60 blocks together!  Then I laid them out to come up with a pleasing layout.  Since it was midnight I decided not to try sewing them together but they are ready to be put together!  Of course then I was up until 3am reading and woke up this morning at 9 to spend 2 more hours reading (finishing my book).

Today Ryan comes home after a weekend away and we can just about start our real vacation working on the house.  I’m going to get started on some projects now and save quilting until later.

And after days of fiddling with my eye-fi card it is FINALLY uploading pictures to my computer automatically again!  So here’s a picture of the 56 blocks of Emily’s quilt all laid out in what will probably be the final layout!

Emily's Quilt - blocks all done

This quilt makes me so happy – I just love playing with bright colored fabrics, now I want one like this for myself (maybe minus Dora) 🙂  In total i’d say it took 6 hours to get to this point so far.  Next I piece the blocks together and then I need to shop for a border fabric!

This is the largest quilt I’ve made to date – it will be a twin size when completed.  Then I need to figure out how to quilt it!