WOW or WIP’s with Esther http://estheraliu.blogspot.com/2018/08/wow-winter-play.html
Juliette to be?
Over the last week I was more in the garden than at my sewing machine or sleeping!!!
When I did find some time to sew I was to tired, when I could stay awake I worked on the leaf borders for my Scrappy churn-dash quilt top.
I’ve managed to machine appliquedown all the vines for my leaves and have all most 1/8th of the leaves done, they are working out to be much easier to do than I thought they were going to be?
using two different threads on the top, one dull gold for the taupe colurs and a olive green for the brighter greens. It seems to be working ?
I’m happy how quickly these borders are growing. All vines and centre flowers are appliqued down now.
Last night I spent several hrs sewing some of my strips of my scrappy churndash together.
Starting to join my strips on my scrappy churndash quilt top to be!
Where I stopped last night, I still have two seams to do, but I was to tired to pin any more, so made up another leaf border and placed 3 of them around the centre to see how it was looking, these borders still need to be machine appliqued down. My table is not big enough to show the top border? It would hang over the end! But you get the idea of what it will look like, I’m so happy to see those strips almost all sewn.
This is how I work with the long stip of the border, it helps to stop the other leaves from lifting while I applique these ones down
Yesterday avo I spent a several hrs adding the iron on interfacing to my hexagons and 1/2 hexagons of Juliette so I could iron down my applique pieces ready to machine appliqué them, some people don’t do this stage but I find it gives a nice finish to my machine appliqué stitch’s. May be when I’m a better sewer I won’t need to do it to? But in the mean time this is how I work.
I will have to decide on the last border when I have sewn all these pieces together and appliqued every thing down, months of sewing here for me?
Where I was at last week? My Juliette quilt to be? designed by Esther Aliu you can find her pattern on her online shop. Nothing is ironed down or sewn yet? I need my table for another quilt top I’m working on so I’ve packed up Juliette see below.
Back of a hexagon of Juliette, Ready for the interfacing.
Interfacing cut 1/4 of an inch smaller than hexagon so there’s not so much bulk on the seams.
I lightly crease my fabric on the centre lines to place my first 4petals and circles.
All placed ready to be ironed down
These are all the pieces to make up my Juliette. All hexagons and 1/2 hexagons appliqué pierces are ironed down, now to find time to machine appliqué them down? There are 4 hexagons and 8 1/2 hexagons.
Ready to be stored till I can sit and machine appliqué all the applique down on Juliette
I have made a new wee area were I like to sit and have my coffee in the sun?
Have added a wee water feature to the right of where I sit so it’s lovely hearing the water bubbling away.
On my left is a tiny waterlilly pond with lots of tiny fish?
We have taken the railing down on the front patio, added a step below it and I’ve thrown a couple of cushions down and it’s such a lovely place to sit in the winter avo sun? We have wide verandas around 3 sides of the house so we can find a cool spot during the hot hot summers.
Finally my tree that was almost wiped out has sprung back to life and is covered with new soft growth?
I’ve turned my Clay pots in to a hanging feature rather than plant holders after fighting the wild turkeys off for months. They dig up all plants in seconds?
Thank you for taking the time to drop in. I’m off to link with Esther http://estheraliu.blogspot.com/2018/08/wow-winter-play.html on her WOW or WIP’s then it’s back to doing those last two seams on Scrappy! And may be appliqué down some leaves on those borders??? Cheers Glenda.
lovely work as always – love that black with the bright bold colors!
Hi Karen, we both seem to be on a roll at the moment, hope mine lasts yours all ways does LOL Family life seems to happen when I’m on a good roll!!!!!! I’m sure going to miss BirdBrain quilt love the colours and those birds were so so cute. Cheers Glenda
What beautiful leave borders!
Thank you Pamela, I’m lucky enough to have lots of lovely scraps of green tones to be able to make them. When do you fly in to Cairns I thought it was this month?????? Cheers Glenda
Hello Glenda,
love your leaves border with all the beautiful variations oft green.
In your garden, there are always new beautiful things to discover!
Marita
Hi Marita, Im throughly enjoying making those leaf borders, I thought it might be boring applqiueing all those leaves down but they grow quickly so its fun. Hope tis still fun on the last border LOL Cheers Glenda
I am in love with your garden space. It is so private as well. I love where I live but I really don’t have a yard. It is a good thing this year because we had a fire on our mountain that compromised our drinking water. Because I don’t have secondary water, I could not water my lawn for many weeks. It did not die but doesn’t look so good.
Stabilizer for machine applique’ is really a must. I believe it makes a big difference. I prefer hand applique’ so I don’t use it much.
Hi Deana, I’m sure the weeks have been shortened Wednesday comes in so quickly each week, if it wasn’t for Wednesday’s and Esther’s blog for WOW or WIP’s I would loose weeks and may be years LOL. Was sad to read about your water catchment been burnt out, so sad and takes years to recover. I’ve seen some terrible fires in different parts of the world this year, quiet friten8ng how many there have been. Sadly they destroy every thing it touches. We are lucky we hav e our quilting to take us to a lovely place of peace Stay safe . Hugs Glenda.
The border leaves look absolutely wonderful on churn dash. They bring the whole quilt to life. Juliette looks lovely. You have a lot of patience to machine stitch applique but you’re stitching looks lovely. Enjoy an extra cup of coffee on the veranda for me!
Dear Gretchen I was sitting having a coffee with you a couple of times this week on my veranda, thinking of you so busy on your farm and wising I could drop in on you in person, but Mail is a very good substitute. My garden steals so much of my time this time of the year, ever6 thing has to be done before the wet comes back so that we can get through it with out to many drammers. We are all ways trying to improve the run offs for the torrential rains then. But I love the wet as I can sew 24 24 LOL. I’m so happy that I have been able to learn mach8ne applique from Jenny as it’s enabling me to keep doing my applique, but I DO miss my relaxing hand applique which I can only do in a small times frame now. Hugs Glenda
Bonjour Glenda,
Que de travaux sur ce blog ,une merveille,j’ai admiré les patchworks,le merveilleux jardin,comme tous cela est agréable!
Un vrai plaisir,bien sûr je suis allé voir ton LE ,superbe!
Esther nous gâte avec de si beau projets.
Merci d ‘être passée sur mon blog.
Amitié a toi
Dear Marie, thank you for dropping in to visit. Seeing you work on your Love Entwined has made me pull my own out of storage again. So thank you for the motivation. Each year I add a little more to it. I do enjoy hand applqiue the most but arthritis is making me use a sewing machine to applqiue now days. Cheers Glenda
Love your work Glenda!! You have plenty to keep you busy there; both inside & out.
Garden looks lovely & lush. Mine not so much at this time of year in Wagga Wagga NSW – lots of big frosts this year.
Hi Linda nearly missed your mail it was buried in spam mail, so much coming in even with my block on them. Lovely to find it as I was deleting them all. You do live in a cold spot in OZ. Your tailwY quilt will be lovely to snuggle under next years winter or is it going to some one special? Garden takes so much of my time this t8me of the year by night time when I can sew at times I’m just to tired or lack the motivation to pick any sewing up? I have lots that should be motivating me some lovely quilt tops of Esther’s and others. Oh well there’s all ways tomorrow LOL. Thanks for dropping on. Cheers Glenda.
Hi Glenda, yes thank goodness for tomorrow’s!! Motivation & enthusiasm is often lacking after the day’s work, and lets face it, Life often gets in the way.
My railway quilt will be a wedding gift in November & I utilised a French General jelly roll I had to make it. Thankyou for your lovely comments.
Looking forward to seeing your progress
xx Linda