FNWF

Oops....I signed up and forgot to do a post last night.

I was completely side tracked with a knitting project. Now I am really not a very good knitter, and not very fast either. But I finished this in one night.......it's a Penguin Pullover! It's a charity pattern for penguin rehabilitation at Phillip Island. I'm only doing one for now, got that little bit of knitting out of my system!

Here it is being modeled by a toy dugong, I didn't have any penguins on hand. But as you can see in the second pic, they do look very cute on the penguins.

Have a great weekend, hope you find some time to stitch.

Susan x

Bits and pieces

I've just been working on a few different projects. My September nine patches are finished, I'm looking forward to seeing them all together before too long.

Playing with teeny tiny pieces of fabric for Irish Circles. The centre circles are sewn together, and now I am making the small appliqué shapes for the ring and centre corners.

I couldn't resist the community project that Sharon from Lilabelle Lane is working on. It's a beautiful variation of an Ispy quilt, for a little fellow called Blake. These are the novelty blocks I'm sending.

My wonderful in laws are visiting for the weekend, and we are enjoying a glorious Fathers Day and first day of Spring together. After a scrumptious lunch the only decision is whether to nap or sew......

Susan x

Distracted by a good cause

I've always wanted to try a two tone checkerboard quilt but thought I'd start small. Ive also wanted to make a little quilt for Blankets of Love. After digging through my stash I found this pretty blue check cut in 2 1/2" strips (I can't remember why I cut them), and some cream. It sewed together so quickly.....just like strip piecing the nine patch blocks. A quick trip to Spotlight for some bunny flannel on special, and a couple of evenings quilting with perle thread, and my sweet little quilt is finished. I love how it turned out, that it mostly came out of my stash, and that it may bring a small amount of comfort to a family going through a hard time.

It's a bit dreary here today, the blues are prettier than in the photo.

Thankyou Cheryll for coordinating such a kind and generous program.

Susan x

In the mail

Today I finished sewing down the binding on my quilt for Caring with Quilts. It will be in the mail tomorrow, on it's way to brighten someone's day (I hope). I'm happy I took the time to finish it off, and whilst it's not the best quilt I have ever made, I like it more today than I ever have before. It's amazing what a bit of quilting can do to an ordinary flimsy.

My little hexies are all sewn together, and will soon become a bag. The fabric behind is what i'm using for the lining.

I think they even look pretty from the back.

So ends another wonderful weekend. Have a great week.

Susan x

Slightly mad

Some of you will think I am more than slightly mad after reading this post. Anyway, after pulling out a UFO to donate to Caring with Quilts I decided that it was a job for a machine quilter, as I have no idea. My local quilter very kindly squeezed me in because it was for charity, but I ended up canceling.

So instead of paying for quilting, I donated to Blazeaid, got out my perle thread, and got to work. A couple of late nights last weekend, and any spare minute this week has been spent hand quilting around the circles on my quilt. I'm happy with how it looks, it didn't cost a cent, and it was really fast with the bigger stitches. Just have to get some binding for it today, and hope to post on Monday.

Hope you have a lovely weekend stitching.

Susan x

FNWF

What a great night/day of stitching. I finished the top of my nephews quilt. The pattern is called Fair and Square from Crazy Mom Quilts. Sharon at Lilabelle Lane whipped up another quick quilt top from this blog last night too. It was a very easy pattern to follow.......will definitely use it again. Now I need to think about how to quilt it.

As it turns out I can show you my block for the nine patch swap, I'm just a little early. In 6 months time, 72 little nine patch blocks in a variety of reproduction fabrics will come back to me.

I also pulled out a UFO to finish for Chookyblue's quilt drive Caring With Quilts. It just needs to be quilted.

Unusually, I did not do a single stitch by hand yesterday, but I had a rather nice time with my machine. It really does speed the process up, but I guess you all know that already!

Hope you had a fun and productive night, enjoy the weekend.

Susan x