Tie quilt completed and gifted!

Even a migraine wasn't going to keep me from finishing the quilt yesterday! Late Saturday Eve,I discovered that my math must be wrong because I was 18 inches short when I attached the binding! I Even gave myself an extra 22 inches to start with,so I don't know what I did. Anyhoo, I decided to wait to finish due to the head ache that was beginning and the irksomeness of bad math. after I fixed the binding length Sunday afternoon, the binding was a breeze! I used the tutorial from Emily at mommysnaptime (http://mommysnaptime.blogspot.com/2011/05/no-pins-no-handsewing-binding-tutorial.html?m=1) and I loved it! Binding used to be my least favorite part and side from my lack of math skills,I am not dreading the next one!
This quilt was made out of Dorothy's husband's ties, and two Susan Winget fabrics. The fabric helped tie the ties together. Dorothy was very surprised and couldn't wait to show her children. She kept saying,"so many memories"
Thanks Don and Pamela for spear heading this project and the challenge to try! It was alot of fun!

Stanley thinks it's for him.

As I was trying to square up my Quilt today, my sweet kitty Earl Stanley Grey, decided that he needed to sleep on it. Everytime I moved him off the Quilt  and trimmed a bit, he would move right back. I moved him at least 10 times. He finally decided to sleep under the Quilt. :-)  I just finished the binding strips and plan to finish this Quilt tonight! I used the tutorial I found on Pinterest for the binding.

Pebbling

After visiting my wonderful, fantastic, marvelous chiropractor to get my hip back in place, (Hard to press the pedal with it out!)  :-) I am spending the day quilting the ugly tie quilt. I really like the pebbles and they were not as difficult as I thought. Circles are much smoother to sew than squares.

Have a fabulous day!!