FINISHES FOR FRIDAY

 It was a busy Finish It Friday today.  I loaded the Loretto quilt onto Eric the longarm and started to quilt it before our 11am get-together.  Then since it was going so well, I continued to do the quilting during the meeting.  I eventually got around to sewing the binding on the Intertwine quilt and I got the quilting finished on Loretto and even trimmed it.  I got the fabric for Loretto's binding cut, but that was as far as I got.  We shut it down at 3pm.    Another productive day.

Loretto

Intertwine!

INTERTWINE QUILTED

 I had loaded Intertwine onto the longarm yesterday and set up a pantograph program.  I had a few problems and didn't get much done.  In fact, after picking out some bad starts, I gave up and decided to come back to the top later.   I was very frustrated.  

Today, after I couldn't unlink two rows, and it refused to quilt the top row of the two.  I discarded the whole program.  I just had the one row up and moved it on the computer to line it up with each previous row.  It was tedious, but I got the quilting done.  

BACKING FOR INTERTWINE

 I've been working on making the backing for Intertwine.  I got it finished today.  I printed out the label and started inking it onto fabric.  I realized, after it was too later, that I hadn't printed Intertwine, I had printed Interweave.  It was either go with it or scrap it and start over.  So, I just decided to go with it.  It is now called Interweave.  The next one can be Intertwine, I guess.  I used fabrics from my stash mostly, and a few pieces leftover from the cutting of parts.  A couple of these prints made me wonder why I'd bought them in the first place.

After I got it done, I thought it needed a heart.  So I gave it one.

INTERTWINE DONE

 I finally got the top of Intertwine done while attending Brave Patch's Finish it Friday.  This was a free pattern from Kona featuring the new COTY 2023 'Crush' along with  'Torch' and 'Sangria'.  

It wouldn't have been long enough for a twin so I added another row of plain squares in the middle.  It is now 56" by 77".