Fourth week of August

The lovely Spring weather is upon us.... cool nights and glorious days (though some of them are a bit windy)

A little while ago I showed string QAYG blocks I was working on for the club's Community Quilts.... I delivered 30 completed blocks..... these now need to have the sashing to join.

And I went to the last Mystery Quilt sewing day and then came home and finished off the quilt top....

Of course this still needs to be quilted and bound.....  another top for Community Quilts....

Another set of Field Journal hexagons have been self bound....

and some other hexagons sewn together to form a panel... these are 1 1/4" and only 22 of them were needed...

plus a teeny weeny one made with 3/8" hexagons.... I even fussy cut!  Very cute but I don't want to do lots of them!

And a little stitchery ...... I like the look of the flower with the satin and back stitch and also the fill in back stitch leaves...

As I promised myself I have taken out the top border for Civil War Bride..... I haven't finished all the flowers yet.. (half way is up to those blue wannabe birds) then they have centres and there are lots of leaves to add... so it will take a while....

Righto, Gotto Go..... Thursday to enjoy....

Have a lovely rest of the week .... and weekend....

Third week of July

Lovely winter weather here this week, cold nights and beautiful days

I have sewn the last 2 of the Field Journal embroideries

They have been so fun to stitch and I will enjoy putting them all into hexagons.

I now have a pretty vast collection of the Cottage Garden Threads and a new project to use them in...... thinking ahead of course!

I have started sewing the tarts on.... you can see the flat ones are stitched down.  It's a challenge to grip the ones in the centre with all the fabric but I will take it slowly ......

I have done July's blocks for K-Drama-Drama BOM hosted by Meerkat Shweshwe 

Modern, different, challenging and not overly time taxing....  I am improving my curved piecing - the light grey was added using buttonhole applique.

This week at Quilt Group they had a Mystery Quilt sewing day.  I got a fair bit done but brought the blocks home to trim and finish off..... they are all placed in their separate bags to avoid confusion.

I still have some homework to do... I'll try and finish these off this weekend so I can forget about them until the next sewing day in August.....

Righto, Gotto Go... I need to do a bit of sorting and tidying in the sewing room then off to town this afternoon.  We are going to watch this new movie Oppenheimer and then do the dreaded groceries.

Hope you have a lovely weekend.....

First week of July

This week I finished off the edges for my whitework.  The border is done with a double back stitch and the square around the centre design is cable stitch (reverse faggoting)

Yesterday I learnt a slightly different backstitch to add to the edging.

I did sew my shirt blocks together ....  it is so hard to get a balance of colours when it is like this but eventually I had to just sew them..... 

Two quilt tops done - different blocks with the same shirts..... next the quilting.  I have bought some lovely fluffy minky blankets so they will be very snug..... 

as soon as I had it down on the floor the cat came in to inspect.......  and destroy!!!

I have started sewing my self binding hexagons using the Field Journal embroideries..... there is quite a pile waiting to be done.....

Though very pretty liberty fabrics were included I decided I wanted a softer pallete with mine (so I will use the liberty fabrics for something else)

I do love it..... long long way to go....

This week I did some catch up on my monthly QAYG by On Williams Street.  The blocks are being made using the colours for RSC and the quilting by OWS instructions....

April, May and June.....

Fun learning some different quilting designs and she is helping with getting an eye in to not have to stop start but keep going into the next section....

Quilt Group have started a Mystery Quilt.....  I only agreed to participate because a couple of other friends said they would ... and I could get the fabrics ready chosen by the club as mine will be a Community Quilt...

First section is done... cutting and labelled!  I now have the first 'clue' so will start that next week

One of the embroidery ladies gave me a good tip for my hoop... to add bias around the edge so that it gives better grip....

It was a little bit fiddly sewing it but easier than I thought it would be ....   and it does make a difference.  

I am yet to get some nylon ribbon to add to the other part of the hoop.

So there we have my crafty week.....  

Righto, Gotto Go... It's a Friday sew day... morning with friends and afternoon with the quilting machine ......

Have a lovely weekend.....xx