Some Postcards

I've mentioned more than once that I am a member of Postmark'd Art.  It's a group that exchanges postcards on a regular schedule.  This time I signed up for three themes: texture, houses, and landscape.  I already posted my texture and houses contributions.  Over the past couple of evenings, I've put together my landscapes.  Today they went into the mail.  They look like this:

wow.  Blogger didn't flip a single card.  I am speechless.  In a good way.  :)

Sometimes I am asked my process.  First, I free-pieced the fabric.  Next, I used perle cotton to put running stitch currents in the "water."  Then I layered the fabric on batting, and machine quilted more currents.  Then I fused the front to ... oh, I never remember what the stuff is called.  Is it peltex?  It's stiff and fusible on both sides.  Then I fused the back, and I zig-zagged around the border.  voile.  c'est fini.

Another thing finished is last week.  We're on Week # 8 of 2013.  Talk about high speed rail, I feel like I'm on the fast train to 2014!

I didn't even touch the quilting of my happy Log Cabin.  *sigh*  But I did finish the binding on the blue and gold, and I submitted my entries for BOTV.   And I completed my commitment to Postmark'd Art.  whew!  The trade-by deadline is Feb 28, which has come faster than Superman.  sheesh!

So, Week #8.  What are my quilting goals for Week #8?

I'm very late on several birthday/event cards, that I'd like to finish up and deliver.  Also, Penny has a birthday coming up in March.  I have something special in mind for her, and I'd like to get started on that.  No, it's not a quilt, but it's something that I think she will enjoy.  :)  I think I'd be happiest, if I finished the quilt-for-hire that has been on my sewing table for months.  If I can make good progress on that, I will be a Happy Quilter.

Last but not least, this is a reminder (not a nag), that the postmarked deadline for Best of the Valley is Friday, 2/22.  That is two days from now.  Thank you so much for sharing your work!!