Have finished the top of this runner. I am impressed with how quickly it has come together but really it should come together quickly as its such a simple design! Still trying to find a place to photograph stuff in this new house. On the laundry door here!
I have it sandwiched, ready to quilt. Milly has been spending too much time on the wii this weekend, so I booted her off and she came and drew at the table while I pinned away.
I finished these on the weekend. It was a three day weekend, so I got a lot done! Wouldn't it be nice if every weekend was a long weekend?
So these stars are for AJ. After I completely stuffed up the first lot of material she gave me with these odd looking stars! These ones look much better, I am sure she will like these better!
She sent me enough for three blocks which was very nice of her!
And she inspired me to make this star block. It is the start of guess what? Another table runner! I'm using from the stash a Kona solid called Honey Dew and the prints are from a range called Filigree which I brought mid last year and have sat in the green drawer since then. It feels good to be using from the stash.
I made the deadline! Had a binding issue as I didn't have enough of that deep orange, so had to break it up with some spots. It measures approximately 30cms x 80cms.
I peiced the backing too. I'm hoping she likes it as she didn't open it there and then..... guess I'll find out tomorrow.
Okay, the challenge of sewing a table runner in 5 days... easy! I knew the birthday girl who it is intended for likes orange and I knew it had to be a quick design, so I selected some orange fabrics and made these little squares. The brown peice of paper underneath had a rough sketch on it of how many squares, their position and size. Once they were made, then I added the orange to the sides of each square.
And then more orange to the top and bottom to join them all up and I got this!
Let the quilting beginning! I popped the ipod on to ignore any demands by the children as I have till 6 tonight to have the binding on, label, wrapped and the card written! Time to stop blogging and get back to it!
Great excitment yesterday. We picked up our brand new boat!
Daz has been doing the research for the last 12 months, we looked in Perth when we were down for Christmas and last year when up in Darwin, so it hasn't been a snap decision! We had a "what are we waiting for?" moment the other week, took it for a test drive last weekend and well the rest is history now!!
Yesterday we picked it up and had a drive out on the Lake. It got the thumbs up from Grace.
We drove past Elephant Rock. Can you see why it is named that?
It is so lovely being out on the water. It is a long weekend here in Western Australia, think we may be taking the boat out!
I finished sewing the binding down on this last night. So in the second month of the year I have completed one Christmas present! Wohoooo!
It measures 23 by 45 inches.
And for the back I didn't quite have enough green, so added a strip of red. No idea who it is for, I'll just fold it in the cupboard for 10 months now! A friend is turning 27 on Monday and I am inspired to whip her up a table runner now, 5 nights, can I do it? Enough time blogging, time to get sewing!
A friend at school this week announced she is pregnant. She had been away sick Monday and Tuesday and when I saw her Wednesday I asked if she was okay, she smiled shyly and said "I'm 4 months pregnant" I shreiked with joy, hugged her and started to get teary. I think her road to this baby has been difficult, I am so happy for her! So this morning I started making a quilt for the baby. Half of the blue about is from my scrap bucket, I don't know if it's a boy or a girl, was thinking about a rainbow colour theme to cover my bases, but then thought nope, I'll just make two, one blue and one pinkish.
Here are the first six blocks. I'm going to go for squares within squares, as usual maybe, but I love sewing them! Six rows of four blocks, sashed with white, sort of a smaller version of this Blue Squares quilt, one of my favourite quilts I have ever made. Maybe just a hint of orange this time.
