Dorian Gray, Citrus Fruit, & Time to Quilt

I have been distracted for the last 2 weeks.  By Dorian here.  Can you imagine, someone left him in the back of a delivery truck at Home Depot.  My daughter brought him home.  He is her cat, but he lives with me, and I feed him (from a bottle for a week), showed him the litter pan, play with him; but he is her cat.  She does come over at least once a day to spend time with him, but he can't live with her. (Darn!)

I finished Citrus.  And lo and behold I had just enough pieces cut to put together the whole top.  Must be what happens every time YOU FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS.  But I wouldn't ordinarily know that.  I like to cut some and just get started with the piecing.  But this time, I read and obeyed.  I probably won't make that a habit, but I'll remember how nice it was to have just enough.

Citrus isn't quite big enough for a lap quilt, but I don't want to add borders.  I like the way it came out without additional borders.  There is another row folded over the top of the sofa the quilt top is draped across.  Citrus is big enough for a baby quilt, so someone have a baby and this might be yours.  I'm also thinking I might sell it, after it is quilted of course.

I'm in a few Bees - this one The Honey Bees (cute, huh?), and this block is supposed to be brickish.  I think I pulled it off.  All the fabrics were supplied by the recipient of the block.  I fussy cut to get the bird in there.

This is the alternate block I made with the left over fabrics, had to add a couple of my own to finish to the right size.  I also fussy cut the flower in this one and the mermaids so they are swimming around the flower.

Left my number 1 pincushion at a friend's house.  I was there sewing on Citrus.  I spent way too much time trying to locate the back up pincushion, because I needed pins to continue.  I knew she was somewhere, and it is a Longaberger pincushion, so I definitely didn't get rid of her.  I found her finally, when I stopped looking, as is usually the case. 

Going to QUILT this top now!  Have it laid out to pin.  I made this at a Kaffe Fassett class I took last fall in Boone, NC.  Really had a fun time in the class and in Boone.  We didn't actually sew in the class, all the sewing was done at home.  Thus, after much cutting, fussing, placing, arranging, rearranging, discarding, and commenting in the class - almost nothing stayed in the same place after I brought it all home.  Anyway, the top turned out grand and it is big enough for a person to lay under.  That person will be me.  This is the top in the picture at the top of the blog, in it's unfinished state at the class in Boone.And this is the back that I found at Hampton Quilt Show in February 2010.  Goes well, don't you think.  I will not piece another top until this is quilted and bound!  But don't hold me to that.  No, really this is getting quilted today and probably over the next week.  While I contemplate the next top.