UFO: Tranquility (MQ9 Quilters Club of America Mystery Quilt)

My oldest UFO (unfinished quilt) is finally out of its bag and well on the way to being completed!  The quilt, a mystery quilt hosted by The Quilters Club of America, is MQ9 "Tranquility". I pieced it in the fall of 2013 so that really a UFO!

I had a lovely day yesterday at Bits 'n Pieces Quilt Shop in Pelham, NH, renting one of their HandiQuilter long arm quilting machines. Above you can see a detail of the beautiful computerized apple quilting designed I chose for this apple themed quilt.

I still need to quilt the borders which have some applique and then add a binding. But now, after 3 years, it's well on it's way to being a completed quilt! 

1990 Silk Screened Quilt Blocks Finally Quilted

I've been really working on decluttering my house this year. Cleaning out drawers with craft supplies, I recently found a stack of rabbits which I had silk screened in 1990.  I printed the rabbit design on my Valentine cards that year.  But I thought the rabbit was really cute so I also silk screened a stack of quilt blocks.  So there they were, 25 years later, still waiting to be made into a quilt. 

The Proper Bostonian Quilters Guild had a UFO (Un-Finished Objects) Summer Challenge this year.  That was the perfect incentive to make these blocks into a mini quilt!  It measures 17.5 x 22 inches, a lovely size for a doll quilt.   The quilt is machine pieced and bound, but all the quilting was all done by hand.

The fabric on the back is a tiny apple design.  

I'm so happy I found my stack of rabbit blocks and finally put them to good use!