Thanksgiving & Christmas

As I have said earlier, our youngest is the only one of three that likes threads.  

She  began her first quilt about 8 years ago, this Chevron quilt.  It was only a pile of blocks that lived on my design wall for a bit.  I took it down and put it in a box where it waited.  (She had three moves and two job changes)

In September we went up to Maine to visit the ocean and Middle and Youngest.  The box went with us and was left with its owner.  At Thanksgiving, we returned to Maine and the quilt was waiting to be sandwiched.  Here, Youngest is finishing the pinning of the layers with straight pins and Pin Mors, my favorite way to do this.

I sewed around the edges as she prepared Thanksgiving dinner.  (Their smoked  turkey, and all the sides, were VERY good.)

She machine quilted it (stitched in the ditch) and brought it home for Christmas.  

Christmas Day afternoon we trimmed the quilt.  We cut, folded and ironed the binding.  Then the the binding was sewed on by machine.  All that she had left to do was hand stitch the the binding to the back.  

Yesterday I received these photos on my phone.  Her first UFO is no longer.  Her first quilt is done.  

I must say that crochet is her favorite thread activity.  There are no UFOs found waiting with that.

Enjoy your day and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!  May your 2022 be filled with goodness and joy.