My list of pre Q3 for the FAL

I haven't been in blogland for quite some time, but I am trying to get back in the groove, and while reading blogs today, first time in a LONG time. I happened across that it is timie to link up for the Pre Q3 Finish A Long over at SHE CAN QUILT. Sooo since I had the camera out for my quilt top finish, I snapped a few others too.

First I would love to get my finished quilt TOP quilted. The Xfactor quilt

Now these next three there is a story behind them. A good friend, quilt guild member died back in January. Her devastated husband wanted all her stuff gone ASAP as it hurt too much to have it around. Some of our little night group got with her husband about quilting up some of her quilt tops she had sitting around. He said yes, so they went and found 8 quilt tops, and fabric to match as best possible and batting too, and bagged them up. Then helped put prices on everything else to sell in a quilters yard sale. Well I couldn't get up with everyone to pick out which one I wanted to quilt. When I finally got over to one of the ladies house to pick up a quilt, she said ok, you get the hard ones, do you want this one or this one? Oh yeah, then there is this one noone wanted to even consider...............I have all THREE! So for this challenge

Second one I need done is Sarah's Starburst This isn't the best pic, because I flung it over a table piled with fabric scraps

Third that I need done is Sarah's wonky Log cabin

It looks orange and purple in this pic, but up close there are a lot of kinda oriental prints in there.

and Fourthly, the one NO ONE wanted to touch. A gem I think Sarah found somewhere. It is a huge circle the edge folded over once and hemmed. Until I went to post this pick, I never noticed the light "square" in between the dark rows. Up close it all blends together. Before I can quilt this one though, it needs a little fixin.

 All the patches made out of this yellow fabric needs to be plucked out and replaced.

I think the scrappier a quilt is the easier it is to quilt, because it covers up your screw ups more. So I don't know what no one wanted to touch this one. I am thinking it will be the easiest to quilt. I think I have a plan for the starburst one, but I haven't a clue for that wonky log cabin............do you have any ideas????

So my list is short and sweet this time, because three of them HAVE to get done, and the other one would be nice to not add it to the UFO pile at all. :D

Quilt top finished.

Way back in February I think it was, during our guild meeting there was an announcement for a class. The teacher was a guild member and also one of  "US" our little night time group that always goes to dinner and always goes to sit n stitch too. Bunch of "US" signed up for the class. So did I what the heck, it looked like a cool quilt, and the class was going to be on a Saturday too. The class was for the X-Factor pattern. The class was 2 weeks and 3 days ago. on the 22nd of June. Since then I have been out of town my for MIL's surprise 70th Bday party that never happened. Also it has rained almost non-stop during this 17 day timeframe, flooding rains. There was a holiday in there, the 4th of July. We didn't even get dressed that day it was raining so hard. But I did manage to get to my sewing room a few days out of those 17 and managed to get the entire quilt top FINISHED!!!! Woo HOOOO! Now there was a supply sheet given out a head of time for the class, with instructions to cut up some fabric. I didn't have a clue as to what I wanted to use out of this whole bag I took with me, but when I got there, the fabric spoke to me and said USE ME and ME and ME too. Then I went to sewing. Here is the finished top, after deciding on a whim which fabric to use for the border.

It isn't the best pic, but it will have to do till I can get a pic of it outside in the daylight, while it isn't raining.
During all this cutting, I had leftover scraps......everyone else put them in a "too little to use" scrap bag in class, I saved mine, and here I sewed a bunch of them together, I will put this piece on the back, it is almost wide enough for the entire width of the quilt.
Sorry about the washed out colors on the bottom part of the pic, I should have had the flash off.

Then I did a Bonnie thing and double stitched all my corners, it freaked out the lady that was sitting with me, she thought she forgot to do something. I told her don't watch me, I am making a different quilt. That confused her even more. So I had to explain. But here are my bonus HST's, not pressed yet, of course.

I will press them and add them to my square bucket for now. Not sure where they will end up.

Now to get that Christmas string one off the frame, so I can get something else quilted................I think I may just un pin it, since it isn't speaking to me how to quilt it. When I pinned it on there I had a idea, but since then have forgotten what it was. But hey I did pin it there way back in Septemeber.......yeppers it has been sitting there at least that long waiting for me to quilt it up.