Sept Friday Night w/Friends

I got a fairly early start on Friday Night with Friends because today my HandiQuilter long arm was FINALLY fixed. At least it seems better, so far. The store sent out a technician to change out the card inside the machine this afternoon.

That green card was replaced with a new one.

Once the technician was finished, I put the Aged Elegance quilt back on the frame. It is almost finished. It just needs the last two edges of border. But, since it's Jeff's project, it will wait until he has time to work on it. He's really busy with work right now.

Then I turned my attention to a sewing project. Today I was in the mood to play with one of my UFOs. I had a bunch of blocks leftover from my Rhododendron Trail Quilt and I thought I would turn them into a lap quilt. Because I didn't have many of the half-block-triangles leftover, I originally planned to make lap quilts with a horizontal layout, like this.

It definitely would have been easier, but then I decided I would finish the lap quilt as Bonnie Hunter designed the pattern. I had enough blocks to do a 3x3 layout with 4 extra hourglass blocks.

I had to spend a couple hours tearing apart the extra hourglass blocks to get the pieces then I spent another hour or two assembling the missing filler triangles for the offset layout.

Now that all the blocks are assembled, I can cut out the sashing strips and start sewing the center portion. Of course, Bonnie's pattern has a complicated border with a whole lot of geese so I'll have to make those too; I only had a few leftover from my earlier project. 

It would be nice to finish this before Bonnie's next mystery quilt starts, assuming she does another one. 

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Friday Night With Friends

Finished (or Not) Friday