15 Minutes To Quilt Wrap Up — Pink, Gold, and Green Quilt Top

15 Minutes To Quilt is a weekly blog linkup meme hosted at Life in Pieces. I’m writing this post for the linkup.

I started the week with a long list of things I wanted to accomplish and good intentions for quilting at least 15 minutes a day. Some things I have accomplished, others, I missed the mark with.

This pink, gold, and green top is one of my successes. I’d hoped to finish the top this week and I hit the mark. Yippee!!

Also, on the list for the week was finishing the pieced backing for the bright colored quilt top that I finished up a couple of weeks ago. I’ve got most of the backing pieced but need to add another 4 inches or so to each side to make it big enough for long arm quilting. I didn’t hit the mark with this one. In fact, I didn’t touch it. It’s still in the sewing room closet waiting for me. Maybe next week.

Also finished this week are a set of pink, purple and black blocks that are earmarked for a teen or pre-teen girl’s charity quilt. Hopefully next week I’ll have this finished to the top stage.

I finished up another set of pastel colored quilt blocks that I’ve nicknamed Country Mile. I haven’t photographed these yet, so I hope to have them photographed for next week.

As far as time spent quilting this week. I was lucky enough to have a couple of hours a couple of days during the week. But the remaining five days I didn’t carve out any quilting time at all…but generally, the longer time to quilt on the days that I was able to quilt kinda made up for it in productivity.

In addition to the items actually on my to do list, I worked on a couple of scrappy projects that I try to work on a little bit each week because they are massive projects that will take a long time to finish. They’re often my fifteen minutes to stitch projects because they are easy to pick up and work on a little bit at a time.

With a lot of my projects working their way to the ready to quilt bin I’ve been thinking a lot about batting choices and thread choices. I’m thinking that Connecting Threads has a lovely gold quilting thread that would probably work well for quilting this quilt. I will probably go with an 80/20 batting because I like the way that quilts quilted with that batting feel. I am tempted to try the Hobbs Poly-Down though as it says it has a downlike softness. Has anyone used the Hobbs Poly-Down? How does it drape when it is quilted closely?

I’m linking up this time with Patchwork and Quilts at Quilting Patch, Can I Get a Whoop Whoop! at Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts and 15 Minutes To Quilt at Life in Pieces.