I have been working on the quilting on my cat quilt – some of it was done on Friday night but I try to do a bit every day. Here is some of my progress.
Detail around the cats in the sun.
The title of the first panel.
And some straight line quilting border work on the cats in the window panel.
It seems that I didn’t plan enough time for finishing it though as I keep on being too busy and I am worried that I won’t get it done in time. Oh well, all I can do is try and if it doesn’t get done for this visit it will be done for the next one!
I did manage to get a few other things finished this week. On Wednesday I went to a Bernina class at my LQS. Ruth holds these classes once a month (except in summer – noone would come then). We make a little project and learn about how to use some particular foot or feet or settings on the machine. I attended these classes when I first bought my machine and learned tons but I feel like I have lots more to learn. This class we made a wall hanging.
I learned how to do machine sewn binding the right way – it turns out that the way I was doing it on the placemats I made at Christmas was my own invention, although it worked okay. And I learned a different way to do a diagonal join on the binding. Here is my leaf on my mini quilt hanger.
And I had a spare hour before the class started during which time I put the straps on this bag (that I made at quilt retreat last September!!)
It is a very large bag and I quite like it, although I like the smaller version that I made even more. I made this one about a year ago but I don’t seem to have ever posted a photo.
And that’s all folks. 
Please check out Cheryl's blog to see what everyone else got up to for Friday Night with Friends.
Janet
