My week started out great with this find in my Opp Shop on Friday. Some one had made a huge coushion with this fabric, I sat one night and unpicked and unpicked roughly two hours it had been made with a floating wide border and no cutting of the fabric just folded and folded, so ?I ended up with two whole pieces of fabric roughly 1 1/8th metre square.
This fabric was a coushion
Fabric washed and pressed ready to use, I just love this panel, I was thinking of border perse whenI bought it but now will keep it for the centre of a quilt as it’s to beautiful to cut up?
My Calico Garden quilt top is finally finished.
My Calico Garden is finished and put away till I can find time to sandwich it?????
When sashiko quilting my Bargello last week I removed on the the rustproof safety pins and to my horror it was soooo rusty! So mostly this week I ahve been machine quilting the Bargello down, this is taking for ever as I need to pin each tiny piece of fabric I’m going to machine quilt with 3 pins to make sure it will all lay flat!!!!! Its very very time consuming but Im happy how its coming up it is going to lay very very flat LOL
I discovered that all the quilting pins over 1 30 of them have rusted!!!!!
Each time I have to pin like this before machine quilting these tiny pieces down 2inchs long and stat at 1/4 of an inch wide?
First I draw my design free hand difficult to photography
Then just sashiko along those lines or change them if it does not feel right?
Love how you can just let the needle go where it wants too?
Today I was looking for some thing? but I didn’t find it but came across a few UFOs
A mini Round Robyn made about 12 years ago? around 20inchs square? I love it need to build a quilt top around it?
A challenge was to make a wedding quilt We had to use the colour we least liked using mine was brown?
I hated mine when it was finished so decided to make a embroidery Heart in each blank blocks? My idea was the brown was masculine for the male and the flowers were for the women in this marriage quilt to be?????? I started this around 25 years ago!!!!!
Close up of one of the hearts? I did love making up these wee heart designs.
I had no books I just made these hearts up as I went.
I also did not know how to do embroidery so learnt as I went?
most of my hearts just grew?
many of the stitches were from my memories of my mum doing beautiful beautiful embroidery when I was a tiny child. I just kept making up stitches.
Quilt As You Go logcabin quilt is finished
Back of my log cabin
Finally finished and on its way, I will miss this one as I love the colours but it’s going to some one special in my life.
Thanks for visiting and staying till the end LOL No garden photos as not 100% today so writing from my bed. Just a virus will be back on my feet tomorrow I hope. Off to link with Esther on her WOW or WIP’s now. Hope you all have a wonderful week of sewing or dreaming of sewing !!!!!! Cheers Glenda from Australia in the far north tropics where winter never comes. .
wow you have been busy! Love your calico garden and your Sashiko work 🙂
Hi Elaine so lovely to see you again, it’s sad how time slips by and we miss each other over the months. This year has been a very very busy one for me, I’ve been very controlled on my sewing which is so not me LOL. But I want to get some UFO’s finished so I can pass them on to friends and family to use? My biggest time consumer is learning to machine appliqué and quilt? My thumbs have arthritis and can no longer hold a sewing needle for hrs like they use to. Jenny started helping me machine appliqué nearly 20 months a go and I’ve started to machine quilt in the ditch and straight lines which is all
I need at present, have taught myself to sashiko quilt the Japanese way using a thimble in my palm and this means I can still hand quilt but don’t need to use my thumbs all the time. Thanks again for visiting just been enjoying your blog, great tip on laminating the pattern pieces, I have a laminated so will try it next time I make a pieced Block. Cheers Glenda.
All of your projects are so beautiful! They’re just lovely, whoever receives them is going to be thrilled. You’ve been busy too finishing up UFQ’s! Yes, we’re at an age where we need to get these quilts finished and passed along to family and friends we love. Hope you’re feeling bette soon, Blessings!
Thanks Gretchen was laid low for most of the past week, so i did not answer any of my mail till today. I have done very little sewing but found a box of more UFO’s????? Which I will share some of this week LOL Cheers Glenda
Wow! The Calico Garden is gorgeous. The bargallo is so beautiful. And I love the panel you rescued! You made wonderful progress on those unfinished projects. 💕 so exciting to see all your work.
Hi Lennea have been off colour with a touch of the flu this week so very little done till to day and yesterday of this week. So nothing has moved much. May be next week LOL !!!!! Cheers Glenda PS All I did was turn around 50 red circles for grapes on my Red and Green quilt to be!!!!
50 circles? That is plenty! Well done!
I cannot believe how much stitching you get done each week. I bought the Calico Garden pattern years ago but never started it. I had forgotten that all the applique bits were already printed onto freezer paper. That certainly would speed things up.
You are lucky to have your Calico Garden on freezer paper Chris my pattern is not. But to be honest this time round when making it i cut most of the pieces of flowers free hand cutting pieces of fabric which all had iron on fusing on them, so they grew very very quickly, not making templates or needle turning the edges and all machine appliquéd down. Cheers Glenda
Love the bargello. But I really fell in love with sashiko!!! So beautiful.
Good call on the floral/paisley rescued fabric. It will make a captivating center for a quilt.
Thanks Preeti I love doing sashiko and since I have been using the sashiko palm thimble it makes it soooo much easier and no strain on the thumbs. What I love about sahiko is you can clearly see the design you are working in sashiko quilting. Cheers Glenda
oh, my. So many lovely projects. I hope the rusty pins didn’t leave a mark. I guess a tropical climate might cause that. Wonderful embroidery as well. It’s sometimes amazing what we can find in the dark regions of a quilting space.
Far to many projects and this week I uncovered several more!!!!!! I just need longer night so I can finish some of them!!!!! Trouble is I get an idea and can not stop till I play with it or make it????? Have almost completed machine quilting one of the Bargello panels and no visible rust marks, the marks are there but on the black and dark fabrics not showing thank goodness. Cheers Glenda
WOW Glenda, what a find!! You’ve been very busy this week
Linda xx
Thanks Linda I wanted to start making a quilt straight away with that panel but finally convinced my self to finish just a few projects piling up on my sewing machines first LOL Which I have been doing!
Wow, that’s a lot of projects! I love them all 😉 Pretty hand quilting on the Bargello, and I love your Calico Garden!