Hi to everyone!! Here on Juliekquilts, we are having a Binding Blitz, for the year of 2015, all year long. There will be prizes each month, so if you have a (ahem) binding pile like I do, or you happen to finish up a binding a particular month...join in!! I have quilt kits, patterns, books and other fun quilty stuff to share for prizes. Above is a quilt I need to hand sew the binding on. It is attached...just not sewn down. We will have a sidebar button that you can put on your blog...it is so cute, and is being made by Vicki Welsh, at
vickiwelsh.typepad.com Vicki, you are the best, and thank you so very much!! Hey, check out Vicki's blog...she has all sorts of fun stuff going on, and she hand dyes her own fabric, and is pretty much amazing. The badge will be coming soon.
A scrappy binding!
Remember this fun Bonnie Hunter quilt? Same thing!! Needs hand sewing the binding down!
And this big, big, starry night quilt. It too needs hand stitching. I am sorry to say that this is not all of the quilts that need binding, by a long shot. But if I get one quilt bound each month...I will be caught up! So that is one challenge for me.
At the end of each month, there will be a Linky, so we can all share our finished and bound quilts. Then the drawing will be for the people linking. So think about it...do you have a binding pile???
This little plaid table runner is half way bound, and I worked on it on a recent plane trip.
Now the above picture does not look like much...but all the one inch pieces are now in pieces of four, and being sewn into pieces of EIGHT!!! So much progress has been made on my scrappy postage stamp quilt. I guess I am doing it instead of Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt this year, because this quilt was nagging at me to get it done!
Ahem...again. I may have a few quilt tops that need quilting. Just a few. A LOT! So I will be joining in on all the UFO reduction quiltalongs I can, LOL! Yep, this is reality, folks...just snapped the picture just as it is!
Hey, I made something new! This is just one block, and I am hoping the lady who made this quilt will make a pattern. She said she would, so while I am waiting for the pattern, I made a one block wonder table topper.
Big stitch quilted, and a scrappy background. And scraps too in the border...I am using scraps up here, friends!
Hey, guess what? Marcie Patch has a quilt in this fun Scrap Magazine from McCall's quilting! Our Marcie is a cover girl!
It is truly a gorgeous quilt. I will be making this one this year too.
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I have accepted a new job! It is right where I am, and is a new position. In fact, I will be creating the position. I will be nursing one-two days a week as usual, but also I will be doing some patient Advocate work. Teaching, looking after the patients, making sure the doctors are communicating with them, loving them, basically, working with the social workers too. Hurrah! I feel that it an answer to prayer, as I have been quite worried about losing so much work time due to being cancelled for low census or too many nurses on the schedule. I have so many ideas...and I am so excited! I would love your prayers that I can make a difference in these patient's lives in a great, positive way, and also improve our patient satisfaction scores. That is what the hospital wants...but I want to reach some souls, you know? To love on these patients!!! Because I am creating the role in our hospital, I am doing a great deal of research on patient advocacy and learning how to do it the best, best, best ever. I would appreciate your good thoughts and prayers!!
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I have so much on my mind, and another thing is all the gorgeous quiltalongs and BOM's for this new year. What are you going to join in on???
Have a great 2015, everyone!! Get out those quilts to be bound!!
Julie