Thursday, May 21, 2015

Foxglove at Night Wall hanging

I just love these blocks.  The colours are sooo vibrant.


And finally, put together and all those paper bits removed from the back.  Yeah!


Thursday, May 14, 2015

Alphabet Progress

I have been delving into old projects and trying to finish some that appeal to me.  This one I began with the letter blocks in June 2014.
Now look...


And now...


And more...


Thursday, May 7, 2015

Braided Strip Quilt

Progress on this rediscovered lovely...


First some math and measuring...


Ta Da... one top done and ready for quilting...hmmm

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Wheel Around Quilt

Here I am back to working on this project.  More than half of the blocks were done from my last go round (Sept 2013) with this project and they were all cut and prepared for sewing so it was easy to put these last blocks together.


Then into a finished quilt top.


Monday, April 13, 2015

Finished Our Father Quilt

Yeah, this was done a while ago but...just enjoy...


Some straight forward outline stitching....



I followed Jenny over at Elefantz and am very pleased with the resulting quilt.



Thursday, April 9, 2015

Re - Quilting

I had made my eldest son an orange star quilt when he was in grade mmmm, 11 I think, in 2000.  It was my one and only time using an invisible thread for the quilting.  It turned out to be awful mainly because over time it grew a terrible beard of see through threads...

I took it back into my care after Christmas and began doctoring it.  There was enough intact thread to act as basting so I ran a line of quilting with cotton thread on either side of the original diagonal lines in one direction.



It was a bit troublesome but I wrestled it into submission.


Considering the fabric is 15 years old the quilt is hanging in there pretty well.  I did not find any other problems other than normal wear.


Friday, February 27, 2015

Planned layout for Spring Embroidered Hexies

So I got an idea to lay out the big hexies with 60degree triangles between...


I am not sure that is very clear but now that some of them are sewn together I can take another picture.