The hubby finally came home early enough to watch a movie with me!  (Although, I had to watch another one this afternoon...)  I finally finished binding my second rainbow quilt (I've been calling them that even though they don't really have ALL the colors of a rainbow, but the name stuck).
I think I'm not a huge fan of sewing binding down by hand.  It takes so much longer and I'm not convinced I'm very good at it.  However, sometimes necessity calls.  I bound my puff quilt by hand because I didn't think my machine could handle all the bulk.  In this case, I decided to use 1 1/2 inch strips for my binding.  I know.  I must have been crazy - that is SUPER thin.  But I had TONS of 1 1/2 inch strips left over from making the blocks and not enough fabric to cut 2 1/2 inch strips.  So I decided to work with what I had.  I don't think it turned out too bad - plus I like the scrappy look on these quilts.  The binding is super skinny and it was a little harder to sew on by hand (more pulling), but I made it work!
As for quilting, I finally just decided to go with my regular old meandering.  And I'm glad I did.  I think it looks kind of cool with the quilting only in the sashing - makes the blocks pop.  Granted, the quilts probably needed more quilting (they are pretty puffy), but I DID do a little bit of stitching in the ditch for the inner squares. 
Here they are before I washed them:



And here they are fresh out of the drier!

Now they are SUPER puffy!

I used two different battings.  I can't really tell anymore which was which...  One was cotton/poly, the other was 100% poly


On another note, the hubby's grandpa brought down a cedar chest full of old quilts for my Mother-in-Law.  It was kind of fun looking at all the old quilts made by my hubby's great-grandmother.  There was one made from blocks each of the grandkids had painted.  It was a lot of fun to see.  But the best part?  There were a few baby blankets in there, and Grandpa INSISTED I take one for my babies!  I was quite delighted with this one

... it was made a long time ago, and it's kind of old fashioned - does that make it vintage?  I never really get these things.  The reason I LOVE it, though, is because I had a blanket just like this one growing up.  It was the one I slept with every night until I got married. :) I think mine was supposed to be blue (it is now gray), but it had that silky fabric that no one uses anymore, AND it was hand quilted.  Naturally, I am super excited that my little boys will have one of their own as well - to share, of course.

I did something scary (when it comes to my quilting world, that is)... I cut into two of my biggest and most expensive stacks of fabric!  Gah!  I hope I didn't mess up... Cutting fabric can be a little scary.  I measured and double checked LOTS of times.

This set is going to by for my in-laws someday (Shhh... don't tell them!) It went from this:
To this:

That's a lot of fabric!  Enough for a King size quilt!

And, of course, I did make one little mistake... I was cutting a group of "D" strips, and I made them too short!  I was so mad, because I was almost finished and didn't have a lot of big pieces left to cut new ones from.  SO I ended up piecing an extra half-inch or so into several of the mess-ups.  Hopefully it's not too obvious.  
I was all set to get started on this quilt, when my sister announced that she is ENGAGED!!!  She is getting married in December and I am beyond excited for her.  I promptly put the Fandango fabric away, got out another set of fabric, and proceeded to hack it up as well.  I hope she likes the colors. 

I went from this (well, actually - this is only half of it - I had to go and buy three more yards to make this one a King size too):
To this!


I'm so excited to be working on a new quilt!  My twin rainbow quilts are almost finished, too.  I'm just waiting for Hubby to actually get off work early enough for us to watch a movie together so I can finish binding the last one!

I started a list of all the projects I want to do.  Just to keep myself on track... maybe I need to add "new ironing board cover" to that list?  Or maybe I should focus on a few important baby items...  The list is over in my sidebar at the very bottom.  Hopefully having it on the blog will keep me motivated!

Oh, and remember this?

And remember how I had my fabric all picked out and ready to go?  Well, sadly, I made the decision that I needed to put it away and save it for another time.  I'm still planning to make the blocks, though.  My doctor seems to think that I will need to quit working at least a month before the babies come.  Maybe I will have a little time for some hand sewing then.  In the meantime, I'm just following along, enjoying what everyone else is creating!