Tardy Turtle

Tardy Turtle-officially the first Christmas present done!  This quilt was fun to work on. piecing, paper-piecing, and applique.  It will go to my son and daughter-in-law.  It was made from a Java House pattern and i have had the materials pulled for 2-3 years-definitely a UFO until yesterday and is on my UFO list for a Lovely Year of Finishes and Finish Along-both buttons on my blog page.  I changed the borders some and didn't add the extra orange the pattern called for.  My start was here. I was #47 on ALYOF goal page.

The quilting is a turtle panto edge to edge

We are going to a huge swapmeet tomorrow to sell motorcycles and parts-I hope.  We have been doing this sale for over 30 years and it is really a lot of fun.  Will check back in next week.

Tardy Turtle is making me tardy

The Tardy Turtle quilt is a little more labor intensive that I thought.  Piecing the curved paperpieced part of the shells to the background pieces has taken 2 days so far-I don't work 8 hour days:) I hand appliqued 4 heads and 3 1/2 shells on last night.  Still have to piece 2 turtles before I can put the back together-maybe I'll finish today-would like to have the back done by today (not borders-just the middle)

Yesterday I started sewing at 10:30 but by 11: 45 I was so tired I couldn't keep my eyes open.  Went in for a short nap and woke up 3 hours later with a kitty pile on top of me.  Not feeling good last night and went to bed early.  Feeling fine today.  Should be able to sew for more than an hour, but I really can't sew for more than 3 hours at the machine.  I am a slow quilter. A tardy Turtle.  This may be a self portrait.