This Goes With That a design by Sue Daley I started this in April 2010 when Sue first put it up on her web page. I changed my quilt top by adding many plain navy blue silk hexagons to make my hexagons that have several pieces stand out more as I felt they were been lost with so many just joined randomly; plus to give the quilt top a design of its own.
My last piece ready to be pined to quilt top I can not believe I’m almost there!!!!!!
Now to sew this piece to the quilt top. May be a weeks sewing here then to do the edge of the top and bottom of the quilt top. I will add hexagons along the top and bottom to give it a straight line. I will show how I do this when I get to that stage.
Top finished after 4 years and 9 months LOL. I wonder how long it will take to quilt and bind it????? I still have 50 hexagons to make for the binding???????
Have ruined quilt top around so you can see this end hexagons as wel
Finally I have added the last border to this quilt too. (Its the top edge) Now to hand stitch the border to the back and then machine quilt this last border; then lots of hours hand quilting the centre!!!!! Will I get this one finished this year??????
Yes I am crazy below proves it????? LOL
I bought these 6 panels from USA around 20 years ago, they were on EBay for around $50.00 US which cost me around $100.00 Ozzie back then in freight and buying them. I just loved the colours and fabrics they intrigued me. When they finally arrived I loved them even more but was sad to see how some of the fabric even though they had never been used or washed were disintegrating. Around 2005 I started herringbone stitching around all the pieces of fabric and replaced those that were so perished they were falling off. It was a very daunting task I did not have many of the fabrics from that area in my stash, I’m guessing they are from around 1920-1930’s as they have used plain sugar and flour sack muslin for the backing. I did have some pieces of cotton 1930 feed sacks and silks from Japan around that time. But finally I had very little choice left so put it away for another day; then 3 days ago an online quilter offered me some antique satins and velvets if I ever used them……………. Life is strange here I had put this away as I did not know where I would start to find these fabrics or buy them and now out of the blue they are been offered to me. SO a big thank you Julie. This means I will able to restore another panel. If any of you look at my Monday blog and recognise the fabrics and can date this quilt for me please let me know glenda_jean@bigpond.com Many thanks in advance.
My new challenge now I have got on top of the last two above.
I’m restoring the blocks as I do herringbone around each patch stitching through the backing as well to stabilise the blocks. I have replaced the blue at the top and the pink silk bottom left hand corner.
backing is made from sugar and flour sacks 1930 or before!!!!
You can see more on my crazy panels on my Monday blog
http://www.patchworkdreams.com.au/?p=6125
We have had a week of rain and some heavy heavy falls 12 inches in 24 hrs Friday night. Now the river is in flood and very very dirty.
Wet wet wet
With the wet our tiny wee frogs are back in the hundreds they are only about 1inch long but you would not believe the noise they make!!!!! Last night there were dozens of then sitting on the passion fruit leaves . Leaves look big because they are so tiny.
His voice box grows to as big as he is, here he is just starting his call
Here you can see his throat swollen out so much that it is bigger than he is!!!!! When they all start croaking at the same time we have to shut the doors and windows that side of the house if we want to watch TV
Beach was very very moody this morning after all the storms and rain still hanging around.
Here it comes again rain and more rain but we had 2 hrs where we were able to enjoy a hours walking then an hour sipping coffee and talking by the waters edge.
Storm out at sea when I arrived.
Back home again and will work on one of my 3 quilts above this avo..
Off to join Esther now Cheers Glenda.
Beautiful quilts Glenda, think my favorite has to be your dresden plates. love the clours and the fish and butterflies work so well with the plates.
Your wee tree frogs are gorgeous, watched a programme on them just the other day.
Hugs Jenny
Hi Jenny, I finally finished that last border yesterday morning then machine quilted it also; now to do the centre as well but I will hand quilt there this will take me a long time as I’m a slow hand quilter as my hands don’t last so long these days. We have batten downed the hatches again as they are warning us for torrential rain over this week-end and warning for server floods. We missed the rain in Jan it was our hottest on record but Feb looks like it is going to make up for it, the trees and rainforest creatures will be happy they need it to survive. Cheers Glenda
everything is so green! I love looking at the outside shots. I love that hexie quilt – I am almost done with mine and then it will sit for who knows how long in the “to be quilted” pile.
Hi Karen today I managed to do the herringbone around 1 1/2 squares on the crazy quilt, and finish machine quilting the last border of the dresden quilt. Now I want to add the final hexagons to the bottom of my finished Hexagon quilt to be able to sandwiching for quilting, hopefully I will get one end done this week. Yes even in the dry it is very green here as we live on the edge of the rainforest so it is always green. We are getting warnings on the news that a huge storm is heading this way over the week-end and there will be mass flooding. We are up high soC one of the lucky ones. Cheers Glenda
Loved photos of quilts and nature. Good for you getting that crazy quilt done it will be gorgeous. Love the beach photos , it is so cold here going down to -15 celcius tonight.
So sick of snow ice cold.
Bunny
Hi Bunny I was going to work on my crazy quilt all morning, it is now 11am and not a stitch done!!!!!! But lots of odd jobs that need doing are done LOL. I had a lovely 2 1/2 hours by the beach yesterday early morning 7.30am till 9,30am so I need to catch up on house chores today LOL Hugs Glenda who is about to climb on the roof and clear the gutter as the water is running over the gutter not along it??????
I love the panels. I clicked over wondering if they were paper pieced. Maybe it was crazy quilting? How interesting that you bought them on ebay so many years ago.
Hi Marsha no they are not paper pieced they just grew LOL. A 12 1/2 inch square of muslin was roughly cut several still have the sugar and flour labels on them. then the fabric has just been sewn on randomly. Some of the fabrics have been used more than twice but there are 100’s of different fabrics from silks, cottons, velvets and rayon. Some of the squares were worked from the outside in and others from top to bottom or from the centre. It really is crazy patchwork as pieces are just stuck on and stitched down, some have nice cut edges and some very jagged thick and thin turned under edges that were not cut just turned under and stitched down. It’s a real learning curve as I stitch herringbone around each tiny piece of fabric. To day I managed to get 1 1/2 blocks done, I find it very very soothing and relaxing sitting there and enjoying these old fabrics. Thanks for dropping in. Cheers Glenda