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.

First finish for July

I had some help to photograph this one in the sun today.

This is a first quilt by a lovely new quilter I shall just call J because this is for her daughter who is getting married soon, what a lovely gift.

I hope the wedding day will be as sunny, best wishes to them all. X

Finish on a Friday

In 2009 there was chatter about a ciggy quilt, why, I wondered, would anyone make a quilt about cigarettes?

Stupid me! 

Of course Siggys not Ciggys,  a quilt of signatures makes more sense. I made my blocks and posted them off, they were swapped, and these are what I got back plus a couple more from local quilty friends when the arrangement I settled on needed a few more.

This has been a UFO for such a long time, firstly because it took me ages to decide how to put them together and what to do about the inevitable blocks that were too small or squiffy then I stalled because I was short of fabric for the outer 3 inch border, I finally found it at Lady Sew and Sew at Malvern this year.

I plan to put a quilt label with a map of the location of all the block swappers.

So the question to Jane (who encouraged me to take part) is how is your siggy quilt  going?

Till next time

Liz

Back to quilty content

Raindrops in blue for Tracey

 

 

Feathers and swirls up the plaits and piano keys in the border for Beryl

 

 

If you don't like snakes don't look..... no really!

Well my patchwork friends here is one of the reasons I have been MIA.

 

I have some new friends. Can I introduce you to Angry the snake, the largest of four that have been on stage for Rugby Theatre's performance of Whistle down the wind this week.

Did I mention I have been doing props for that show?

 Anyhow, Dan has bought them to rehearsals and performances and dealt with them but on Friday I was told he would not be available for the matinee performance so I had to put on my big girl pants step up and deal with them. I was not exactly afraid of snakes I just didn't want to get up close and personal with them. As you can see by the big grin on my face this was a challenge I really enjoyed.

Angry enjoyed draping herself around my messy backstage updo.

Normal patchwork content will resume soon.

Liz