Home again and Stained Glass DONE!!

Ahhh, it's nice to go away but it's also nice to come back home. I've been gone for almost 5 weeks with a brief visit after 1 1/2 weeks, so a lot of catching up to do. I only turned the computer once while in SC--too much to do. I'll just recap some of the highlights over the past weeks...

Quilt Group retreat--

At the end of the week---lots of projects done (well for some--I made a vow that my Stained Glass quilt WOULD be done--at least I have another week to work on it when they go home.),

lots of pool/beach/sun time and a couple of visits to a local quilt shop, Quilter's Cottage in Murrell's Inlet who was having a GREAT sale--50% off a lot of newer fabric. Caused this gal to jump off the no buying wagon a little bit. Well...to be fair I had store credit for doing some sewing for her, and I HAD to spend it, right? LOL

What you do when you are too tuckered to even sew anymore, you lay on your quilt, lest someone takes it! and the flip flops? well, the pile just kept growing during the week!

And this darn quilt has been a on-going (slow) project since 2002. I thought I would make a block each time I went their. Well, I only had 8 blocks done and I thought, at this rate it will never get done! I had too much invested in it, especially those fusible bias tapes--11 packages of them! I vowed that this summer would be the year I got this done. Not terribly hard to do, but VERY time consuming, especially the prep time. Then I chose to do it QAYG (Quilt As You GO) and had to make a few adjustments to accomodate that and had to be creative when my center block ended up 1/2" short because of the quilting. I spent the week after my quilt group left (one did stay with me--so it was nice to have company while doing the tedious work) and I got it done!! AND as soon as hubby arrived with the kids, I had him hang it. Wow--what a HUGE UFO done!