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Yesterday I finished a quilt! Woo! (Now, can I finish another one without starting something new?)

This quilt was pieced by another guild member. I picked it up from the philanthropy table... a while ago. :-/ I did the quilting and added the binding. It will be returned at this month's SCVQA meeting. Next on the quilting to do list is to add the binding to the other philanthropy fish quilt. Then I should focus on my ALYoF goal for the month.

I'm linking up on Fabric Frenzy Friday and TGIFF.

I'm linking up to Finish Along Quarter 3 Finish Party. Here is my full list of Q3 Finish Along Goals.

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I think it started while she was in high school, but my sister loves rubber ducks. I made this quilt for her way back in 2002. It was the third quilt I made. I love the bright, bold colors. How my first two quilts ended up being pink, I really don't understand. :-) Since I made this pre-digital camera and my sister doesn't live locally, I asked her to take a few pictures for me. Since she's a photographer, she sent me these awesome shots!

Rub-a-Dub is a 45" x 59" lap quilt. I used the Children's Delight pattern from Quilts from The Quiltmaker's Gift. (The Quiltmaker's Gift is a lovely children's book if you haven't seen it!). It is an uneven 9-patch block which emphasizes the feature fabric in the middle, with sashing between the blocks. I think it was the first time I did strip piecing for a quilt. There's minimal straight line quilting, around the border and around the middle section of each 9-patch.

Some of Jenn's duck collection.
Jenn's cake from her high school graduation party.

Next week I'll show you the baby quilt I made (years later) with my leftover duck fabric.

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No new fabric this week as I continue to wash, iron, fold and organize my stash. It feels so good to almost have it completely under control.

I do have a few fun new tools. First, a giant ruler for squaring up my 12-inch blocks for my most recent project.

Behold, the 16.5" square ruler!

I decided on 16.5" (there are a lot of giant ruler options!) because the giant wonky star quilt used 16" finished blocks and if I were to do a single block quilt, I like a 60" square lap quilt, so four 16" sections would work for that, too. It's made by Creative Grids. Right now I can't really imagine needing a bigger square. Wonder when that will change. :-)

In trimming my scraps, I've been frustrated with having to move all the pieces many times to trim them down to my desired sizes (more on that soon) so I decided to get myself a rotating cutting mat. I went with the 7" Fiskars to decide how I like it. Most of my scrap trimming can be done on that size, I think. I also got a 6.5" square Creative Grids ruler, because I hate my current 6.5" square. I have to say, this new setup kinda makes me want to make a bunch of half square triangles that I need to square up... and I don't really even enjoy making half square triangles.

In non-quilting news, these are the colors for my daughter's room. The ceiling was painted white on Friday. Wall paint starts tomorrow.

I'm linking up to Sunday Stash with Molli Sparkles.