A Project of a Different sort.

A few weeks ago I saw this on our local buy and sell and I just could not resist.

I have started, as you can see there is a drawer missing, I have gotten all the paint off that, it looks great.

A few years ago I did a similar one.

There it is behind all my mess on the sewing table. I do have a better photo somewhere (just not sure where I filed it)
Anyhow the new one will look just as good. I am not sure what I will do with it once it is done, but I will worry about that then.

A FEW PICS FROM WHEN I WAS AWAY

The cruise boat that Cheryl and I went on in Bundaberg

 The tree in the back is not a multitude of trees it is just one, it is huge!

 Donna and I at the railway station, after I spent the night with her.

Cheryl, me and Donna, (left to right) at Donn's favourite fabric shop in Brisbane, where all the prices are below $10 a metre.  Lovely shop, and lovely staff, now if I could just remember what it was called.

And last but not least my flowers that were not there when I left to go to Qld.

Oh Dear, I am just not good at keeping this up to date

This is where I have been, Hervey Bay Qld. I spent a beautiful week with my friend and we visited here, we walked all the way out on this 'wharf' (not sure what is its correct name) overall we walked about 6 klms that afternoon.

A couple more done

I really am not doing these at an amazing rate, they have been "Mostly" done for a while, just finishing them off. 

This is one of my supervisors, obviously asleep on the job, the block is 9 1/2 inches so you can see how big Ollie is.

My first ever usable quilt.

I just found a photo I took of my first usable quilt.

This  is now a rag, but I have it on an old lounge and the youngest poodle thinks it is a fine place to chew here bones so it need a wash (fell apart a bit more with that).
Here is a photo of it slung across the clothes line, it was too heavy to hang properly, so I let it dry a bit first and then rearranged it.
It was made out of used (second hand) fleecy fabric, I put the fleecy part on the outside. double sided and fitted our queen size bed. It kept us warm for many years. There was no quilting, just two sides sewn together, lol this was before I knew what quilting actually was though, this was to keep warm.

Eeeek

I just realized that I haven't been in here for ages, so much has happened in the last few months, my Mum passed away after a few years with dementia, a release for her, and my husband also passed away after being bedridden with Multiple Sclerosis for a lot of years, also a release for him, but a terrible shock for the rest of us.

I am not writing this to get sympathy, just so that "I" know in future what was happening, I do this blog so I can keep track of what I am up to, and also to show my on line friends.

So on that note I will just put up lots of photos of what I have been doing, sewing was a reprieve in the middle of everything else.

 A red and white block.

 A bag which I found in bits in an op shop, all the pattern and pieces where there, just had to be put together.

 Another red and white block, this one was supposed to be a boat, but I don't want boats on my quilt so I made a patched heart instead.

 This will be a table runner, it may still get a little larger, still thinking on that, it is made from strips that are then cut to make the shapes, unfortunately I can't remember where I saw it being  shown. I think it was a u-tube.

 My latest stripy quilt.

 My newest friend.

More red and white

 A book for Penny that can't get ripped up.

And the lone star that took a long time to talk myself into trying, and after all the talking was not that hard to do.

Now there is sure to be more that I have not put up, but it will wait, today I am doing yet more red and white blocks from the Just take 2 BOM.

And the latest on the Just Takes 2

 This is not a block from the Just Takes 2 BOM, this is one that I made to replace one that I just did not like.
The second quarter of the quilt is now put together, for those that are also making this, it is my style, any blocks that I don't like I am removing and replacing with something else.
I also goofed badly with the big one bottom right of number two photo, I made it the wrong size, so it is now on point with a teeny border round it. The reason it got to be the wrong size, is totally my own fault, I am transferring (drawing) the patterns into EQ and using the rotary cutting instructions in there. I got the size wrong, but Hey it is my quilt, and it will be different to all the others.

This is what the second quarter looks like, there are also a few blocks left over which I thought was sort of strange.

I do not like the way everything is paper pieced, and the huge wastage of fabric.





This is the way it is supposed to look. Notice that the aeroplanes did not make it into mine either.

More red and white

I love to play with EQ,  I found the top block on the Patchwork times blog, Where Judy Laquidara is making  Nicole's Sofa quilt. I loved the symmetry of the block so had to have a play with it. I added  the second block, I had to draw that one myself, and this is what I came up with. At the moment I am so in love with red and white.

Sunset Sails

I forgot about this one, A wall hanging called Sunset Sails

Been a while

I just realised that I had not been in here for ages
so I will just put in photos of stuff I have been making

 Some of the BOM blocks that have been created

 A reversible bag

 Ocean Party

 Four Sentimental Journey blocks, and yes the last two are not meant to be finished yet, but I was on a roll, and it has been hanging around too long.

And lastly my beautiful grand daughter, unfortunately she is the only one of the four girls I get to see regularly, she is becoming a real little person, and a show off for the camera

I am stuck

I have no idea what I will do next.

This quilt started out as an experiment, I liked the centre block, so then added to it, I might add here to that it was just fat quarters that I had and the light colour is calico.  There are now three different colour grays in it.

Is it going to work for me this time?

I have been following the Just Take 2 BOM, and working along trying really hard to keep up, Last week I dedicated a few days to finish the first quarter. This is what I have ended up with.
Now if you are also making this you will see that there are a couple of blocks in here that should not be, that is because I became frustrated with what I had made and decided that it was just not good enough and so I made my own. It is the hand piecing that is not working for me.

Anyway........ I am happy with what I have made, the feathered star especially and the applique one in the bottom right hand corner (which by the way I did with vliesofix and blanket stitch on the machine)

This one is certainly testing my staying power, and since I have finished this quarter there has been new blocks put up, which I cant start because my printer is out of ink. This is a very good excuse and I am sticking to it.

More Blocks

 Two blocks for the April BOM

And the blocks for March and April Sentimental Journey

I have been really slack with posting what I have been doing

But I have not been idle.
During the first few weeks of this year I became a pattern tester for Arbee Desighs Ltd.  Check them out  here.

    

This one is called Star Crossed, it is foundation Pieced, But once I got the hang of it, it progressed easily.

And this one is called "Star Medallion" .

The original pattern was made with Floral Fabric, but I was anxious to get started and I did not have enough floral to get the repeats so used the fishy one instead.

Unfortunately neither of them is quilted yet

Someone is watching me

I wonder who it could be?

And I have made fabric from Scraps

This is what I have so far, while it was raining I went well, two days ago it stopped raining and so did I.

The latest project

This is my latest project, it is on going, all those little bits scattered everywhere are from my on going scrap box, normally I sort it all into colours when the box is full, bu this time I am going to do something else. I am not going to elaborate just yet, I will put up a new post when I get part one done. So far it is taking a lot longer than I expected.