Thanksgiving and Beyond

Turkey Line Up!

      We had a great Thanksgiving here at the Inn.  With 25 for T-Day dinner we had our work cut out for us . . . by 8 am we had 2 turkeys in the oven and lots to accomplish . . . thankfully Mom came over with Dad for dinner and made the gravy!  I always manage to make it with lumps and Mom's is perfection!

       I had a deadline on Tuesday before Thanksgiving to finish a quilt for my niece, Libby.  It was her 18th birthday present (March), her high school graduation present (June) and her "off-to-college" present (September) and it was late for all three!  I got the quilt on her bed about 20 minutes before she got home for the long weekend . . . phew!  

One of Libby's blocks

     When she came to visit me when she was 9-years old she wanted to learn how to quilt.  So I had her take some of my scraps and sew them down to 1/2 pages of newspaper for a foundation.  She made 6 of these and her mom, Lynne suggested I make them into a quilt for Libby's 18th birthday.  Lynne and I removed all the newspaper from the back and stabilized them with iron on interfacing.  I used my sewing machine to add decorative stitches to the blocks.  I then cut them into large squares and made them into a Turning Twenty quilt with lots of flannel.  I used Tuscany wool batting and flannel backing, quilted as-you-go in long columns on my Bernina.  

The Finished Quilt

     As I was hand sewing the binding I realized how wonderfully warm the quilt was and how much I would like to use wool batting again.  The quilt looked beautiful when completed and I was so happy to have it finished.  While it isn't 2011, I consider this my first UFO finished . . . now on to the next!