Confession

I don't love the quilting part of quilting. I don't hate it, but I don't love it. I feel like I have to psych myself up to do it (unless I have a dead line, then I just panic myself to do it.) I know I could send it out. I even have someone to send it out to. But, I'm also cheap, and a diy~er, therefore I quilt my own. So the other day, as I sat in the cave, I was looking at my bow tie quilt, all pieced and ready to go, and decided, it's time. I laid it out, figured out my plan, and estimated how long it would take. Two hours, tops, I thought.

In reality, it took three, including the binding. That's it, just three. If I didn't take breaks to see what the gals on The View were doing, it might have been less. I think that's my biggest hurdle, thinking that it's going to take days and days. Mere hours. I need to remind myself of that. Anyway, all that's left is to hand stitch the binding to the back,which was the real motivation for quilting it: 10 hours in the car this weekend.  Prime binding time! So, do you love every part of the quilt making process? If you could skip a part, what would it be?
 
In other quilting news (news? really?) I finished my blocks for the 4 x 5 Modern Bee
 

 
I went with the strippy circle look. I hope the gals like them. They were really easy to do. I traced a circle (about 8") on a page from the phone book (phone books make the best paper piecing bases - this, easy to tear away, no smudges, and free! Use a sharpie and you can see the drawn line from the back side, too!), then strip pieced (switch to a smaller stitch length to make paper removal easier), cut out the drawn circle, removed the paper then zig zagged it down. Easy peasy!
 
Next up: finishing my Modern Mosaic
 

These blocks were started by a bee I was in. I expected 22 blocks, but there was a bit of flaking at the end, so I ended up with about 14. I was going to make a twin-ish size, but now thinking of a baby quilt size (I still need a girly one for Neal and Steph's baby due this fall.) Do you think the black/pink combo is baby girl enough?
 
I love that Pat Sloan has dubbed August Finish it Up August. I'm trying, Pat, I'm trying! I'm pretty sure I'm going to have 3 or 4 days to myself next week, so I hope to have many things to show for it! Got anything to finish up? (We're quilters. Silly question. Never mind.)