Olympic Achievements

I made good use of my sewing time during the Olympics, especially during the last weekend. I had one project that I brought up to work on - a UFO that I started cutting out during the Vancouver Olympics two years ago. If you've been reading for a while, you've seen bits and pieces of it along the way - it is my red and white snowball quilt that started as a fabric exchange hosted by Nicole from Sister's Choice. We each had 4 or 5 people to swap with and send them strips of the cream fabrics. 

When I started sewing last week, I had one set of snowballs to finish and then the end pieces, which are 1/3 of each snowball. By Saturday night, I had all the components ready. 

Once they were all ready, I couldn't resist laying it out on the floor of my living room. And once they were all laid out, I couldn't resist starting to sew them together. I finally went to bed, but didn't want to pick it up, so my family had to tiptoe around them all day Sunday. I worked more on Sunday, but didn't get it finished up until Monday night. I waited until this morning to take a picture in the good light. 

I decided I am going to name this quilt "From Vancouver to London." I will make a back and hang it up to go into the queue for quilting. 

Speaking of the quilting queue, it keeps growing. So, now that I am moving back downstairs and not leaving the tv on all day, I need to set a little goal for myself to start to move through some of said queue. My goal is to quilt 4 things (I have tops and table runners in the queue) in the next 5 weeks. If I can keep up that pace, I should have plenty of binding to do by the time the new tv season starts ;)