How did Dec come through so quickly this year. My DGD has all ready started her school holidays and next year will be her last year at college????? My WIP project for this year is still not finished which I’m disappointed at but it will have to be 1915 goal now. My LE is slowly growing and I’m happy with that. With family living back here now I find I’m doing little sewing jobs here and there for them so we can not do every thing, well I can not LOL.. BUT I have cleared my mending pile which I’m so happy to have done before Xmas.
I cut out and made a wee DJ block B4 Chris’s Soccer Field,
All pieces have freezer paper ironed on behind them, this makes it so much easier to work with when the pieces are so small.
I used a dark chocolate and a light cream and maroon fabric, I have to admit that it took me at least 4 hours to make .
A D.J. block ready to be put away with it’s others waiting for one day till they are ALL finished.
Tacked to pattern ready to be filed in to a sleeve wight eh others from Row B of DJ’s
This cathedral pillow came in to the Opp Shop last week I fell in love with it it is beautifully made and the colours were me, I was sad to see it there when some one had spent so so many hours making it for some one.
23145 Also brought home this fully lined sheep skin jacket from NZ it is so soft but sadly the cuff had been ripped off nearly completely on one sleeve so I carefully unpicked the stitching and rehang sewed it back on, now it is as good as new.
I’m thinking about making a Kimono jacket out of some WIP’s I have, I have more than enough bed quilts and far to many blocks completed but no were to go???? I guess we all have this problem. These are some sample blocks I did several years ago when I was teaching beginners appliqué I always liked to make the blocks my self each time and I made these Black and white with a touch of red blocks way back then. I did frame them ready to make in to a quilt but they are still UFO’s!!!!! I have enough blocks for the front and the back of the sleeves and I will make the back a solid black. It will be padded and quilted so a winter jacket.
Today I’m adding long sleeve Stretch cotton fabric inserts
Work shirts I’m adding the long stretch fabric sleeves too.
to DS’s building work-shirts that are short sleeved not good in our hot summers at 36C I added them to one of them during the week and he said they worked perfectly and would I like to do them for a living I said no thank you LOL.
Was looking for my 12 Days of Xmas wall hanging have not found it but found this,
I made the background fabric up added the top leaves and lotus flowers then passed it on to the next quilter after 12 months and 11 other quilters adding something it arrived back home and what fun it was to open it.
close up of one corner the fish and the Mandarin Duck have so much detail and the fish men and boat are such tiny pieces of fabric I love this detail, then we have the sea snake that wriggles behind the fabric which the quilter unpicked to be able to do this. I will thread some wool through it to make it more round and scary LOL. Then some one added the wee frog it just goes on and on. Oh yes there is a cobweb and spider there too!!!!
it was a wall hanging I made with 12 other ladies online about 7 years ago. I made the background fabric and added the lotus flowers and leaves then each quilter added some thing else after 12 months it came back like this. It is a quilt the more you look the more you see. I think I will add a border now and give it to a children’s ward at the local hospital. Kiddies would love it.
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12 Days of Xmas Esther’s design which was a BOM several years ago and what fun it was to make each month. I made mine larger by adding the candles, more parcels and the holly leaves below.
Close up of 6 of the days
The other 6 days!!!!!
Garden is still full of colour that I showed last week. So will just show a couple this week.
Our little Pap Paw is growing fast now the rains have started.
I’m off to link with Esther’s WOW or WIP’s nowhttp://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com/
Thanks for dropping in. Cheers Glenda
I do not do a lot of mending – your family is lucky that you do! it does cut into your quilting time though doesn’t it. I had not thought of Xmas yet and really need to start to decorate one day! I do not know why I haven’t felt like decorating yet this year just not in the mood I guess.
Hi Karen I’m afraid I feel the same, We are having Xmas at one of my DDIL place this year and not having to organise Xmas day it just seems like another month in the year so far. Another DDIL is going to put up our Xmas tree wight he kiddies as their home is just to small for one that you can put parcels under. I have made the Xmas mince and pastry and the mixed fruit is sitting on the bench for the Xmas cakes LOL but thats all. Oh yes and I have one parcel wrapped. O Glenda
Oh Glenda, I have a few buttons to stitch on and a few hems to take up or down and my goodness, do I ever get around to it? Hardly! It’s so nice to see your WOW and catch up with your corner of the world. I can’t believe how many quilted items are making their way into Op Shops! What does it all mean? And I can’t believe it’s already December…but I am trying to get a grip on that. Love your flower pics. And LOVE your 12 Days WIP. I’m just finishing mine, should be done soon…..
Thanks Esther for dropping in, I also can not come to grips with it been almost Xmas. I was just saying to Karen it just feels like another busy month of 2014 but it will soon be 2015!!!!! My DGS even said to us the other day can we have a Bar B Q by the swimming pool for Xmas instead of the traditional sit down turkey and all the trimmings LOL. So we will have a Xmas breakfast beside the pool so we have both. I’m busy clearing a space on my walls so I can hang my 12 Days of Xmas and just starting a Beatrice Potter quilt for a Xmas present????? O Glenda