Finish it up week - and a giveaway!

Did you finish your stuff last week? I had a fun time trying to finish all mine! Here's what I managed to accomplish:

Pieced together my QAYG Bella Parade blocks - and bound all those seams. Cut binding for the outside edges.

Finished piecing my {Sew} Beautiful Bee quilt. Top complete!

Finished piecing my Bohemian quilt. Basted it too!

Started and finished some cute little needlebooks for the RATZ Swap!

Aren't they just too cute? One of them will be sent off to one of the Finish it up weeks's participants! Leave a comment here telling me what you finished (or what you attempted to finish) this past week. You'll get a chance to win that teeny adorable needlebook! Be sure that you're not a no-reply blogger though, so I can contact you if you win!!

More "finishing"

Ok so not all of my "finishes" are truely finished... but they're finished for me- less a WIP and more waiting to be quilted. 

Today I bit the bullet and decided on a border size for my My Precious QAL quilt. It was going to be a mini quilt, but I increased the size of the pieced part to show off each of those precious Bohemian fabrics, so my original idea of an offset grey border seemed silly, it's no longer a mini quilt, yet not quite a usable size quilt (37" square). Logic lost this conversation, I went with my heart and made it the size that the patchwork wanted. It can be a newborn quilt should I get pregnant sometime soon (God willing--seriously!). I won't hold my breath for that since it's already been 3+ years... whatever that's not what this post is about. 

Sari fabric for the back!

Tonight I will search my "scrap batting" and find a piece (or a couple pieces) big enough. The backing fabric has been chosen. I'll be using some luscious sari fabric that Shruti sent me way back when she had me as a partner for DQS10. It'll be perfect! I'm unsure about the binding, but I'm sure it'll come to me! 

I'm not sure if I'll try to quilt this one by the end of Finish week, but either way I count the quilt top as being a finish! :) How are you guys doing?? Finishing some projects??

DO you have some things to finish?

We're always WIP WIP WIP here... I'm a finisher; I love the thrill of finishing things (and the cuddling in the new quilts). Yet I've got so many random things that are not close to the finish line. So naturally I need you all to encourage me.

I'm going to make next week a great big "finish it up week." Who's with me? If I knew how to do a linky party I would, but I'm too lazy to go figure it out (and let's face it it'd cut into my sewing time tonight). So if you're in just leave me a comment and go blog about it. Tell us what you're going to finish - it can be one item or a ton of them! :) 

As for me, I'd like to finish my Bella Parade Quilt, assemble my bee quilt top, finish my My Precious QAL quilt. I'm sure there are a zillion other finishes on my list too. I just want to finish them! 

ps  Feel free to grab the picture up there, or from flickr here. I tried to post a box with the code... but my brain hurts too much for that!

Also a little reminder that you can post your progress etc in my flickr group if you're into that sort of thing.