Just In Time...For Next Year

Crossing another item off my Winter Stitching List.

It may not have been done in time for Halloween

but it is done in plenty of time for next year!
Directions for this 56X56 "Halloween Stars" quilt
can be found in Thimbleberries: Quilting for Harvest
by Lynette Jensen.   (listed under Amazon recommendations)

Don't you hate it when you REALLY have your FMQ

groove on and the phone keeps ringing?  When I

first started on the black border, I had it going on but

then I totally lost it at several points so this quilt is a

real mixture of "great" and "so-so."  I suppose the leaf

border doesn't really go but it's one that I can do

quickly and I just like it.  I do need to learn some

new ones--I'm feeling very limited! 

The star/moon fabric is the backing, btw.

At the advice of a blogger friend, I finally picked up

 some of these.  If you are like me and you've put this

off for say, 8 or 9 years, do yourself a favor.  STOP

what you're doing and go get yourself a pair.

See how the fingertips have a coating?  Grabs the quilt

 really well.  WHY WHY WHY did I not pick these up the

first second I'd heard of them?  I've also heard you can

just use gardening gloves...but mine are all very dirty! 

And, these fit much better than gardening gloves.

Kitties on fabric...

Kitty on fabric.

She just likes to feel it.  Really.  I have to tell her

to get off of my projects constantly.

Incidentally, that's the remaining fabric that I needed

to purchase for my Very Merry Christmas quilt so I'm

off to work on that now.  Hopefully I can make it till

2 pm when the Starbucks BOGO kicks in.

*yawn*

Quilter question:  Do you have a favorite

place online to buy batting?