FNwF

Yesterday was the first Friday of the month and that means Friday Night with Friends over at Gone Stitchin'.   Earlier in the week  a list was made  of three items that I would like to complete during the month of August and last night I took the opportunity to finish off my origami table mat.   I saw this sometime ago on the "net" and knew that one day I would have to make one which was started a couple of weeks ago on my quilting retreat.    I put in an extra "petal" in mine as  I wanted to have a more "closed" look in the middle and not put a candle in it.  

I can see a few more of these being made using different festive fabrics.     It is quite a "labour intensive" project but well worth it.

Now that feels good having crossed one item off my list and that only leaves two to go.   Some of you who have read  my previous post know that hubs has been slowed down by a very nasty bug and he will be needing lots of R & R over the next few weeks or even months so that will give me plenty of sewing time so I maybe able to cross the other two items off the list also.

Back soon with my progress and in the meantime

 Happy sewing all

Seven down and........

Five months left to go before I have completed 12 months of  Quilty 365 circles.   The circles below are for July however I have two left to do to complete the month.      The fabrics have been chosen but not cut out as yet.  

Things have been a little hectic around here at present.  Hubs had a very nasty bug going on and ended up in hospital for 3 days on a drip.   Once he was stablised and the correct antibiotic prescribed he was discharged home in the care of the acute nursing team who visit the house on a daily basis to complete the intravenous  medication.    This is how our lounge room looks while they are in action.

I will never look at the light fitting and a wire coat hanger in the same light again.

Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

OMG - August Goal/s

Is that being ambitious and thinking that I can achieve more than 1 goal this month?    Time will tell I guess.     So for this month I have decided to keep on working on my "rail fence" blocks that I started at the quilting retreat.

Next on the list is sewing  the buttons on my origami table mat that was also started at the retreat

Then comes the tedious task of finishing pulling the paper off my spiderweb blocks that have been sitting around for longer than I care to admit.

Thanks Heidi for keeping all those participating in OMG on track each month.

Hopefully I can report back at the end of the month with at least two of the three finished!!!!! and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

FNSI

This month  I was sewing alongside all the other FNSI sewists as well as being in a room with 40 other quilters.   I was able to join in again with Eastwood Patchwork Quilters for their annual quilting retreat at Kurri Kurri and had a fabulous time as always with the group.     It is lovely to be able to just sit and sew then get up from whatever I was working on to wander to the dining room and enjoy all the lovely meals that had been prepared for us.   After each meal it was then back to the sewing room and pick up where I left off.     No table to clear or  kitchen to clean up afterwards - bliss.

The workroom all set up with our machines

My "space" for 3 days

  

So what did I do?     Firstly I sewed around some more of my "daily circles" which can be seen in front of my machine.     Then onto making an origami table mat which I had been wanting to make for sometime.     Almost ready to join up the last seam and sew on the buttons.      This is my project to finish off this week.

I then made a start on a quilt using a variation of the rail fence pattern.   Firstly joining up the squares

Then adding  the rails

And last photo shows the blocks that I managed  to construct all sewn together.

I am very pleased with the effect of the white "rails" and will continue using up my coloured squares and white rectangles until I have a decent size "snuggle quilt".

Thank you Wendy for giving us the opportunity to sit and create then be able to share our work with others.  

Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

Done and dusted

I put  the last stitch in the blue and white bedrunner late yesterday afternoon and was able to run about between showers of heavy rain and get a quick photo of it hanging on the clothesline.

I am very pleased with the result and it will be my "show and tell" at quilt group tomorrow.    Some of these blocks were made by other members of my quilting group so they will be able to see how their blocks ended up.

I also had time to sew my hot pink 9 patch blocks together as can be seen below

I had to  have a little look at all of my pretty rainbow blocks before storing these ones away.

It never ceases to amaze me at how good all those little bits of scrap fabric look  when sewn together.

It is time to get myself organised for a quilting retreat that I am going on in two weeks time.     I have been giving it some thought  to what I would like to do and my mind keeps wandering back to black, white, grey and pink.    Being another wet day it is a good excuse to go and have a play with my stash and see what I can come up with along those lines.

Linking with Oh Scrap and Red Letter Quilts - OMG for July.

Back soon and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

Half Way Point

It is now the end of June and I have arrived at the half way point of the year and have 6 months of circles for 365 Quilty to show for it.   The circles below are for June  and as you can see I have a few to finish off but have found the appropriate fabric to suit the day.  

I think that it is time to get all my circles out and have a play with them to see just how they are going to end up but before that I need to sew up my 9 patch  blocks that I am making for the Rainbow Scrap challenge.     This month the colour is hot pink and it seems that I do not have a shortage of pink in my stash.  

I have finally finished pulling all those threads through, burying and tying them off on the bedrunner. Should I confess that it took 4 1/2 hours to do so!!!!!  

On with the blue and white binding that matches the border and another finish.    Hopefully I will be back before the end of the week with a photo and in the meantime

Happy sewing all

FNwF

As the cold wind blew and has been doing so for the past 2 weeks it was time to make an early start in my sewing room to keep warm and cosy.     I was making good progress with my bedrunner but did stop off to make the big girl quilt for Miss M so back to the bedrunner.     All pinned and marked out for quilting

In the machine and ready to go

I decided to quilt diamonds and triangles using my walking foot and now I have the boring task of pulling through the threads, tying off and burying them.  

Thanks Cheryll for hosting another FMwF.

Now that I am so close to getting this one finished I have decided to make it my OMG for July.

Back soon with some photos of the completed bedrunner and in the meantime

Happy sewing all