Newly finished quilts

I came home Friday noon, did my necessary grading, and then I quickly sewed up the backing for the Mixtape Quilt. There was still time to get it down to the shop before they closed up for the day, so I dropped it off. I'm going to have a rose pattern quilted on to it like I planned. (Wait time will be about 10 weeks. Most of that is because of projects ahead of mine in line - it only takes a couple days to do a quilt. I am fine with the wait time; it means the store is prospering and I suspect the quilting helps to support their having such a diversity of fabric and yarn.)

I did buy a couple small pieces of fabric for the someday-to-be-started hexagon quilt (and I got more papers; they had just come in, so I am set now). That may be an over-break project to begin - I could cut a bunch of the pieces and carry the papers and patches with me and start preparing them.

I also found a book a local quilter wrote that is kind of a devotional with stories about quilting or quilters she knows. It is exactly the kind of thing that would make a good present for my mother, so I bought one. (I've already ordered her Mother's Day gift so this will be part of her birthday gift). It's even signed by the author.

I also did some sewing this weekend. (And finished the first of the "Rib Fantastic" socks, and started the second one).

I finished the aqua and red quilt top. I like this one better that it's now done; it is a little less "clashy" than I thought it would be.



Here's a photo of it in its correct orientation:



Not sure what I'm going to back this with; I don't have a big enough piece of anything in the stash that might work. I might just use plain muslin on the back of this one. Or maybe get a chunk of that extra-wide fabric so I don't have to piece the back; that's always a chore that it's nice to avoid. (They make a 108" wide muslin; with that going the long way, it would fit easily, and I'd only need a couple yards for the other direction.)

I think this is one I will have machine quilted; I think these modern style tops generally work better with machine quilting and I prefer to save my more traditional styled tops for hand quilting.

I also put the binding on the Post and Beam quilt. I'd had this one done for well over a month but never got around to binding it:



The front of this is all reprints of the Denyse Schmidt "Flea Market Fancy" line; I had been wanting to do a quilt all of these fabrics when I heard they were being reprinted.

I didn't really have a good idea of how I wanted it done so I asked the quilter to choose something she thought would go, but that was a fairly dense pattern. I like what she selected, there are little circles on it which kind of mirror some of the prints in the quilt.



And the backing.



(I got the print going two different directions but didn't feel like unpicking it and redoing; I don't think it's that obvious the print is going opposite ways.)