And 3 more, 3 quilts and 3 posts in a week,

 One for Jacquie, a lovely flower garden

 with some fussy cut blocks, shame I was asked to do a panto not do something simple from the front but it is a finish. I think the blue makes a lovely border.

 Two is for Pam, I love the colours here, vermicelli was asked for, I wasn't sure so laid poly over and with a dry wipe pen tried other options, liked the vermicelli. KISS

 Three is my piece for the Lutterworth Piecemakers exhibition next week. The BOM /QAYG was not done every month, my bad, in fact it has been a mad catch up to a deadline but has been quilted in sections on my Bernina, with the exception of the borders, and all joined together. I found this process a little tricky but am glad I have done it.

This is possibly my favourite block, not a trapunto tree as we were supposed to do but a block I started at Phillipa Naylor trapunto class at Walcote so I thought it was appropriate, right technique different design, the hexagons were a substitution too because I had a hexi love at the time and I lost the instructions for one of the house blocks so put in the schoolhouse block I made for Rocheberrie quilters and I totally ran out of time and fabrics so had to make adjustments.
I hope the BOM organisers approve of my variations.
Till next time Liz

Just like busses

3 come together, one for Chris,

 

one for Lynda,

                                        and lastly Sun bonnet Sue delivered to Margaret this morning.

Borders for my Lutterworth Piecemakers QAYG are my next task, can I get it done for the exhibition on the 19th and 20th October at Walcote Village hall I do hope so, but watch this space. If I do get it done will they be able to hang it, as it was not completed I did not sign up.

Till next time Liz

One Flower Wednesdays

 
http://journeyofaquilter.blogspot.ca/p/one-flower-wednesday.html


Look what I found, a group to share progress of hexie flowers. One flower a week and share progress once a month, I should be able to do that, I am sure going to try!

The big textile show and getting back to business

This was where I spent last weekend.

All set up and ready for action.



The quilts were all chosen to demonstrate something I wanted to discuss in my workshop.

It was a great weekend but I had fretted about it quite a lot and am glad to be all put away and back to what I regard as normality and some quilting. This is a lovely string quilt by Chris, I just put ribbon in the sashing and border and up and down in the blocks with the piecing. I am sure it will bring some colour to some child's life.

Picture taken on the washing line this morning It was a bit blowey and I had to be patient.

Till next time happy quilting. Liz

Lucky Me!

This fabric pack of 30 fat quarters was offered on Facebook by Starr Fabrics, one of those giveaways where you have to like a page and leave a comment and post on your own page.
http://starrfabrics.danemcoweb.com/
and guess who won. I think I squealed when I realised it was not a wind up. They will ship to Master Chaos number one  who is expecting to be in the UK for a couple of days next month. I do hope he will be able to have a bit of free time. Two very good reasons to look forward to October.

I have been spending time in preparation for this event.

http://thebigtextileshow.co.uk/

I was asked to hold a workshop on both Saturday and Sunday for people who fancy trying free motion quilting. I spent all morning chatting to people about quilting and then the workshop was in the afternoon. I had a lovely day, met some lovely people and look forward to doing it all again today.
Till next time
Liz

Quilt for Grace

An ex colleague gave birth to a baby girl very prematurely, thankfully she is now home and doing well. Am having difficulty settling to anything much today as sadly we have lost a great member of our theatre, very suddenly taken, a great shock, a reminder of the fragility of life and the need to tell those we love how much they mean to us.

John, I will miss you X

Another project started Doh!

 I love the hexi quilts that are about again. I must have made them as a child but thankfully there is no evidence apart from the metal shape in my sewing box. I remember tracing round it onto old Christmas cards and then struggling to stitch through. Thankfully things are a bit easier now, I had printed out a page from this web site http://moxyideas.com/downloads/   ages ago but not done anything about it then last Rocheberrie I saw someone making some blocks and instead of stitching right through the card she just put tacking stitches on the back. Why hadn't I thought of that. It makes things so much easier and less stress on sore joints and the card is easy to remove by snipping one or two stitches and wriggling the card out, leaving the rest of the stitches behind, great if you intend to applique the flowers onto something later.

 I have no idea what I will do with these but they were a compelling project this weekend while I was feeling a bit lack lustre.