Finished! At Last!

OK I know it's Saturday, but I'm linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts for her Finish It Up Friday this week anyway. That is because I have not one, not two, but THREE finishes this week!  Yay!  I could not bear to shout that they are finally finished. LOL

The first is this little wall hanging that I started about 2 years ago.  It was inspired by Amanda's little pillow, I decided that mine needed to be a wall hanging instead.  I finished the top right away and that was as far as it got until a couple of weeks ago when I decided it was time to finish it.  I sandwiched it and quilted it then and finished up the binding this week.  It still needs some little rings sewn to the back so that I can hang it up, but other than that it is finished!

The second is this little baby quilt that I started about  a year ago.  Not sure who will wind up with it yet, everybody seems to be having boys! LOL  I cut all the little tumbler blocks on my Go! cutter.  Love that thing!

And the third and final finish is this baby!  I am embarrassed to say that it was started about 4 1/2 years ago.  I got the blocks done in a reasonable amount of time, and finished the top several months later in a sewing session at Amanda's house.  She helped me arrange the blocks. :)  I finally got it quilted about a year later, the binding machine sewn on about a year after that, and I finally got it hand sewn this week. It was originally started as my effort to join in Amanda's One a Day quilt a long.  Needless to say I fell a little behind... LOL.  I am so glad to have this project off of my list and into use.  In perfect timing for a really cold week being forecast here in Minnesota!

I am not counting these as part of my unfinished project goal this year as I finished them before I set the goal.  Next up is to finish my Scrappiness Squared quilt and a small pillow a friend asked me to make from a special sweatshirt.  I hope to finish both by the end of January.

What projects are you working on?  Did you finish any up this week?

Redwork and Mail...

First of all, I received this in the mail today from my sweet friend Amanda.

Amanda and I have been friends for around 10 years now and I am honored to have won this bag from her. I have seen her grow and develop as a quilter from those first days when she was expecting her oldest child and made her first quilt, to the talented quilt artist that she has become. I am so blessed to have such a dear friend. This bag is a work of art and I will cherish it! I love the colors in it, something about it reminds me of chocolate covered cherries, or those chocolate truffles with the pink cream centers. You know the ones I am talking about?

Amanda is doing a quilt-a-long on her blog (see left hand side bar for a link). I joined hesitantly because I don't really feel like I have much of a stash to draw from. Most of my fabrics are ok on their own, but don't really go with much of anything else in my stash. SOOO I went and bought these.

I had been thinking about doing a redwork quilt because I had a set of these that I bought several years ago and never embroidered up.

I decided to do them as redwork embroidery. So, in a way I AM using something I already had on hand. I hope to combine the two sets of blocks into a quilt top when I get them all done. I'll have 12 of each, so I should have a good sized quilt when I am done. I am really trying to break out of that "I can only do a lap size" mentality. LOL We will see how it goes...

And just a quick word of thanks to Sew Mama Sew, they again linked to the kids clothes tutorials again yesterday in their "handmade for the holidays" series. They have been linking lots of fun tutorials for all sorts of things this month.