WIP Wednesday: the one with French Generals backing up

I'm making backings. That's really about it right now. If I can get a bunch of backings and tops to the quilter before I go, then I can come back to a helluva lotta binding, and start from there.

JS chose the Laid-back Plaidish (I'm thinking of calling it the Glad-ish Plaidish because it's definitely not "laid-back". It's not really a "Lad-ish Plaidish" either which would be my alternative name for it.) which is this quilt:

And the Grandmother's Birthday Puzzle (which his wife N chose):

I'll back both the Glad-ish Plaidish and Grandmother's Puzzle with this French General print which I've had for at least a decade. 

Unfortunately, my tastes changed significantly within a couple of years of buying it and I've never quite reconciled myself to using it. Never been able to sell it. Never known quite what to do with it. So it's going into a full chequered backing.

And I will steadfastly deny the quilter when she asks, "But this is too nice for a backing, don't you want to make it into another quilt?" 

No. No, I do not. Is this the face of a woman with not enough quilts? Let me assure you in case you feel inclined to say 'yes', IT IS IN FACT THE FACE OF A WOMAN WITH TOO MANY QUILTS AND WAY TOO MUCH MATERIAL. Which I am using in pattered backings because this is me and a pretty backing means a quilt can be turned over and used just the same.

WIP Wednesday - the one with backings!

In honour of the style of my WIP Wednesday titles: RIP Matthew Perry. I was a HUGE fan of 'Friends' back in my early 20s, but lost interest long before the end.

Thus passes our youth! (sic gloria transit mundi, etc., etc.)

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In more mundane news: two more quilts have homes!

1. The orange Penny Patch - LG.

I was a bit surprised that L chose this, I would have thought she'd go for the Rainbow Around The World.

2. Grandmother's puzzle - NS - needs a backing.

Another surprise - this is a somewhat traditional quilt with one 'odd' block. The blocks were gifted to me in a 'birthday block swap' but I found I didn't like the fabrics once I'd received them. Then one block was missing and one block was the wrong side, so the blocks sat around languishing forever, until I finally decided I'd make up the missing blocks and sew it all together as a top.

Still to offer to: JS, SG, AG, KR, RR, DP, DP.

In fact, about 3/4 of the quilts I'm offering still need backings, which I'm thinking should mean I sew a bunch of FQs together... I mean, that's the theory. 

Although I just pulled out a slew of 'old collections' that I've been 'saving for a rainy day'. Eh. Screw that. They're going out as backings!

(Except what that really means is that I'm about to have a whole new generation of scraps turning up and ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH. Oh well, I guess I can further stuff the pouffle.)

If I can get the selected quilts and their backings and their battings to the quilter before I go away, then I can bind them when I get back. (ahahaha, or, y'know, in a year's time when I actually get around to it). 

Still have the binding on multiple quilts to do. Oy.