Sunday 24 July 2016

Progress on Baby Quilt

Hi,
I worked to my goal of quilting the nine blocks for the baby quilt by Friday and I am pleased with myself that I achieved it.  This is a quilt-as-you-go project and I now need to choose a material for joining the squares together.
Perhaps a plain from a colour below.  The photo below is the material in the wonky star and is a picture of sweets I used to get as a child.   Heart-shaped, multi-coloured, with the varied messages on them.  It brought back a lot of memories.  It also brought out the graphic designer in me and my love of text, objects and shapes and hence my choice of materials for the quilt.
I will have to put this project aside this week to work on the up-cycled jacket.  It is a blue women's jacket and I have chosen strips of batik material to decorate it.  More about it and photos next week.

Wishing you a good week.
Pamela

Friday 15 July 2016

2016 FAL Q3 Proposed Finishes

I am looking forward to taking part again in Quarter 3 though I am going to try and be realistic with my list.

1.  This quilt-as-you go baby quilt is progressing along well and I hope to finish it.


2. Two pillowcases for Isabelle with the Frozen theme and a ballet theme.

3. Quilt this finished quilt top.

4. Complete an up-cycled jacket for a competition.  I haven't got a picture for this as it is in the design stage in my head at the moment.

5. Lucky last.  I had made a lot of progress on this but got stuck and put it away.  I will look at it again when I complete the others.


Looking forward to the next three months and then seeing everyone's finishes.

Pamela

Thursday 14 July 2016

When Life Falls to Pieces Make a Quilt

Hi to everyone
It is a long time since I have blogged and the time has gone so quickly at times.  I have named this post after a heading on Emily Bailey's blog which I happened upon and I felt it summed up where I am at.  (www.em'sscrapbag.com).  The good thing about it is that I have again put together a list of things I would like to try to finish and found a couple that I did finish for FAL Q1 but didn't post.
First the unposted finishes:
No. 5 and 6 - two cushions which now look very nice in my lounge.


No. 9 - A pillowcase for Emily with dinosaurs on it.  Dinosaurs especially requested.


Also, not on my list. I made two Christmas presents for Derek and Jill in England,  Two place mats.


Not as bad as I thought!!  I also had a good tidy up and rearrange of my sewing room and got lots of gardening done.


My little basket of polyanthus and pot of herbs by my back door.
Great to be back with you and fired up again!