Friday night sewing with Heidi and Bobby

This week has been busy with my quilt meetings. I had two different meetings this week so I did not get to sew those nights.  I haven't done any sewing this week except for last night.  I went up to the church and sewed with some of my friends and worked on the purple baby quilt.  I decided to do the border a little differently than the picture of the pink quilt.  I'm not doing the leaves all going in one direction.  I'm doing them going up both sides and out both sides at the top and bottom with 3 flowers at the top and bottom....Since I didn't have a pattern and had to figure out sizes of leaves and filler, this is how I decided was the best way to do it.  (I had help from my Friday night friends and help from Freda over at http://imperamagna.blogspot.com/. Freda gave me some help with the size of the leaves.  I played around with several different size leaves  and finally decided which size to use and it was the size Freda had originally given me....I'll be finishing this up today and I plan to start quilting on it today  too...Here's a picture of what it looks like right now and I'll take a picture and show you what it looks like later today.

One thing I did get accomplished this week was to finish tatting my flag.  I have not hidden all the threads on it and I haven't blocked it but here it is all tatted up.

I'll hide the threads that need to be hidden, block it and decide how to put stars on it and the next time you see it, it will look a lot different.  I'm still trying to decide if I should use button stars or what.  I want to play around with some polymer clay and see what comes of that.  I haven't been able to find star buttons the size or color that I want. The pattern just says to tat rings and use those but I didn't like those, so now I'm trying to decide what to do about this.  I worked on this off and on since last July. It's just ring and chains but each row took about 13 hours to do.