Love making progress

It often takes a retreat weekend or a very determined effort to carve out 30 minutes here and there over a week or so to see me make progress. I had the former although the weekend was a tad short. Couldn't get there until 5:00 on Friday evening, and left early on Sunday to get home before a winter storm worsened with high winds. But I'll take what I can get.

Friday night I warmed up with some small projects, like laying out and pressing the Celtic Cat hanging. Alas not enough black fusible 'leading' to do the seams, and the store adjoining the retreat center did not have the plain black.  Saturday I put the major elements together for my Gaggy 30's bed top. Here it is so far:

There are white panels to each side of the center 'window' and I may add more white all around to get it to twin bed size. Then I'll add some of those rose type of flowers with vines and leaves going up each side of white and overlapping some of the top arch window. This is the design I wanted, and now it will serve double duty in hiding some of the piecing patching I had to do to get that arch to fit level on the body.

I am really liking this. While it is the dreaded 30's fabric, at least they aren't the overly sweet prints.

Then my other big project I did on retreat focused on the Tom's t's quilts. One I machine quilted with 'e's and o's' and the other I pin basted. Now to tackle the binding on the former (with label) and the quilting on the latter. Good thing there is a holiday vacation in the offing.