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?

I can finally share these!

I have had so many  things that I have been working on that are surprises that I couldn't share them until now! 

I made this quilt for my niece who turned 20 a few weeks ago. I made the same pattern for her sister who turned 20 3 years ago. The pattern is "Turning Twenty" and uses twenty fat quarters.  I used twenty different solids.  I tried to stick to blues with a few greens and yellows thrown in.  The fat quarters came from Connecting Threads and I LOVE them.  They are so wonderfully soft and the colors are beautiful!  I backed it with dark blue and bound it with teal.  

I also finished more socks!  I sent these along with the quilt for my sister and her other daughter who also have birthdays this summer.  They were made with my Kool-Aid dyed yarn.  I found the patterns at knitty.com.  I love that site!  The yarn I used was a fingering weight superwash merino wool from Knit Picks.  

I have more surprises in store that I have been working on today.  I can't reveal them just yet, though.  That will have to wait a couple more weeks. :)

Sneak peek and an awesome quilt...

Here is a little peek at the fabrics for the new set I am making for Etsy. It is going together really well so far, so it looks like my pattern modifications are going to work! :)


I also wanted to link to this quilt. I absolutely love the blue and the randomness and the color values of this quilt! It was featured at Sew Mama Sew a few days ago. They have featured a lot of really gorgeous quilts this month. Go check them out.