Liberated Squirrels are done

Yesterday, Kathy, Cathy, Christine and Barb came over to spend the day sewing in my dining room.  There was much laughter, chatting and sewing going on all day long! 

We were all very busy!

Of course, there were also scraps...

Kathy has more than one bin full of scraps but only brought one bin with her!

I spent some time finishing up some WIP's for the London Friendship Quilters Guild charity projects. These 9 patches will be used in a Quilt of Valour:

 

And these pillowcases will be sold in the boutique at our guild show in October as a fundraiser for our charity projects:

 



In the afternoon and evening, I finished up the quilting on my Liberated Squirrels Quilt.

 

I tried out some new Hiroshima Quilting Needles which I purchased at the Quilts at the Creek show a few weeks ago. The package states "Large eye needle. Flexible and warp resistant. Runs smoothly through fabric."  I think the first part of this description is a bit (ok, a lot!) deceptive.  I have never tried to thread a needle with such a small eye!  Even with my glasses on, it took several tries to get the thread though the hole! I would have to agree with the rest of the statement--they were flexible and did not warp like the other needles I have been using to quilt this project. I found that my stitches were smaller and more evenly spaced when using this needle.

 

 

I trimmed the quilt and added the binding by machine. I spent the rest of the time, hand sewing the binding down.  This afternoon, I did the final hand stitches on the binding and took the Liberated Squirrels out to the backyard for a photo shoot:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TA DA!!!

 

 

Now it just needs a sleeve and a label and it will be ready for the quilt show!

 

BTW, there was a tea and pie break mid afternoon to keep up our strength...

 

I am linking up to Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching.