I'm getting behind !

 I finish things now, and I think, "I need to make a new post on my blog about this !"  But time passes and I start something else, and..................I GET BEHIND !

So, to catch up, I think that I have just two new finishes.  

First, if you've read my blog for a while, you may remember that last year I made a very big throw quilt,       

close to twin-size, for my daughter, using her papa's flannel shirts.  It was her memory quilt, and she loves it.......snuggles in it on her couch.   Well, it's been bothering me, since then, that I still had a big zip-lock baggie of the leftover pieces that were just too big, and frankly, too dear, for me to toss out.  

So, I got them out with the idea of making myself a rag quilt.  Instead, it turned into a lap throw without a batting, just big enough for me to snuggle under in the recliner, and feel like I still have James close by (just a little bit) !

 I bought a piece of flannel, for the back, that reminds me alot of the brighter flannel shirts that he wore in his younger days.  As he got older, he got more conservative.

I included a couple of pockets, and several of the shirt labels, and I'm really happy with it.

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Then while a friend and I were visiting another widow last week, I showed her my memory quiltie, and she acted (teasingly) like she was going to keep it.  I said, "do you want a quilt?"  She promptly went back to her bedroom and then returned to hand me a plastic bag filled with pieces of poly-cotton solids in quarter-yard or so cuts.  I thought, "oh, no....not poly !  

But I told her that I would see what I could come up with, and she told my friend that as long as it was made with love, it would be wonderful.  Well, later I went to a secondhand store that I haunt, and I was hoping to find more fabric, possibly for a backing .  Then I came upon this beautiful sheet, and realized that the print contained several of the fabric colors from her bag.

 I went right home, washed and dried that sheet, and cut out my design.    That was Saturday, and on Tuesday I put the last stitches into the binding. This is a photo of the top before quilting.

  It was a challenge to work with the poly-cotton after so many years of 100% cotton fabrics, and don't even ask what it was like to join two pieces of extra-loft batting together by zig-zag stitches on the machine !   But, I am very happy with the finished product, and I hope to be able to give it to Mama Nelly on Sunday, at church.

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And, oh yeh !   This will be an upcoming finish.  The center portion is all pieced, BIG HEXIES !   But I haven't decided whether or not I want any borders. Stay tuned !