Drudge Work

Is there any part of quilting that you just hate?  I know a lot of people don't like to bind.  I love to bind, it is so relaxing.  The part I dislike the most is putting on borders.  I like cutting, piecing, but setting blocks, sashing and borders are soooo boring.

I decided to put my big girl panties on and get some things moved along a bit.

I shared about this quilt and some of the others in my post called Chasing Squirrels. I finished the red and white strips, sewed the stars on and decided it needed to be a wee bit bigger so I added a 2 inch red border and a 5 inch blue border.   I am sure there is something I can use for backing in the charity boxes since it is for guild. 

I added the green strips to the lone star I was making for the bag lady quilt, and started piecing it together.  This will be a center medallion for the quilt.

Still not having much success trying to make signature blocks unfortunately to match this quilt.  I have had 3 failures so far.  I will try again this next week.  

I have been pinning the rows together on my saw tooth square.  Lots of points matching going on.

 I have only 3 more rows left to add, but they are all sewn together.  That is what I call drudge work. 

Since I had white thread in my machine I grabbed the BOM from my Tuesday sewing group and made it up quickly. 

 I finished step 1 of the Butterfly Threads Seeing Stars Sew Along.

Then whipped up step 2.

I am all ready for when step 3 is published in November.

I am kind of leaning toward the thought I finished a quilt, and have another almost to the flimsy stage, I think I can start a new project or two, but also pull out a couple more UFO's and get to work on them.