Chip Tails quilt top finished...

I think it is going to be my new favorite quilt for my bed as soon as I get it quilted. I have a ton of already cut one and a half inch strips left over and so far I only have thought of making some purses with them. I do love blue and cream, so maybe another smaller log cabin quilt is in the works.

Here's a detail of the corner. I will be thinking about what to quilt on this for awhile. Whether to do an all over design or some swirly stuff in blue and cream? Maybe some cats playing? Any suggestions?

Progress has been made...

Friday was BOM for the Tonga quilt at Jeff's Sewing & Vac in Augusta, while there I found the wide backing fabric for my Chip Tales quilt. I have all the borders finished now and just have to assemble the parts.

This is my finished block seven. I picked up block eight and some extras to start preparing the blocks for assembly.

 One of the parts I like about the BOM at Jeff's is that they make it an event by having food, door prizes and a discount on your purchase that day. Since I brought some show and tell I had extra tickets for the door prizes and won two fat quarters and a new rotary cutter blade.

Wow! This quilt has a lot of pieces...

Chipper helped me lay out the blocks that were already made for this quilt. I am thinking of calling this "Chip Tales". Today I started putting the blocks together and adding the pieced border. The corner blocks were already made too, but the border pieces are still in process. Each edge block gets twelve two part random piano keys. I made 56 blocks so that I could use this for my king size bed and I think that I was tired of piecing by the time I got to the border.

This is the size the pattern called for, wall quilt or throw. I am a gluten for punishment. I love the scrappy blue and cream and I don't know how many different fabrics are in this quilt. The strips are one and a half inches wide. I think it is going to be another week before this is ready to quilt, but if I am able to get it quilted before the end of September I will enter it in our local quilt show. I'm sure I would get the prize for putting the most pieces together.

The kitties just slept in the sun all afternoon.

Look how Scottie has grown...

I took this picture last month when I found Scottie sleeping in my zipper box.

This picture was taken today. I think Scottie has grown a bit.

Since he likes to sleep in my zippers I decided to put them into the next bigger box. We will see if this box becomes too small.

 I decided to work on a UFO that has been waiting to be put together for many years. My original plan was to try to put it together as a quilt as you go project. But I really don't like cutting out squares of batting for large quilts. This is a King size, if I remember correctly. Now that I have my own long arm, it is time to get all the UfO's that have been sitting forever moving along and finish them one by one.

 I sewed more units for the construction of the border tonight.

 Chipper says he needs more attention. So how can I say no to such a sweet boy.

QAYG finish...

The front

The back

I finished my sample just in time for the class that I am teaching today, nothing like the last minute. I just have to make a few demos before I sleep. Hope that the students have as easy of a time as I did making this quilt as you go. I'll keep my fingers crossed.