WOW or WIP’s with Esther 24th Jan 2018

First block of a BOM Queens Garden by Esther Aliu I’ve loved doing this block.

http://estheraliu.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/wow-quilting-home-beautiful.html

On Sunday my blog was wiped out completely it no longer existed, I was devastated, at first I thought the server was down then it said the plug was pulled on this site????? My hubby spent two hours Monday night talking with our server who was able to recover all my data and reinstall it over 7 hrs except for the last 3 blogs of this month!!!!!  I’m pretty washed out over it all knowing that this can happen.  Luckily we pay for my blog to be backed up on our server but if we hadn’t nearly 10 years of my sewing records would have been gone.  It’s making me re think about printing of some of the quilts I’ve made and going back to sticking them in an album!!!!  Of course it happens but I just was not awear of it????  SO if you want to keep all your blog records safe do a back up your self or pay your server to do it for you.  Rod put all my files from my blog on a disk last night for me and I feel a lot happier knowing i have it, now I need to put it in a safe place and remember where that place is LOL

Mums Jacobean runner finished so happy I was able to rescue this piece of her work for some one use and to enjoy.

A week ago my DGD 4 made her first quilt top on the little hand machine on the table.

On Sunday she spent the day with me and we turned that wee quilt top in to a quilt.  she has mastered the feed in to the needle so well I let her sit at my Janome and sew this in to a quilt top, I pressed the treadle and she did every thing else.

I finished machine appliquéing my Queens Garden block except for the circles on the crown.

As I’m learning to machine appliquéing I’m writing down the width and length of my stitches I do on each project, I’m so glad Ive done this as I for get  what I did after a-couple of days.

What a difference a day makes!!!!!  Applqiueing those wee circles down with a double applqiue stitch in side each other give depth, texture, and a sparkle to them.  Was Jenny’s ( Henry) idea.

Love how the maching appliqué has turned my yellow looking holes in to tiny wee Jems, I hope to get the other 6 done to day then the block is completed it was such a delight to make, Thank you Esther.

Taken in day light

This month have finished off hand quilting 3 more 1930 GMFG flowers just love th ese quant fabrics from the 1930’s.

On my window last night!

In the garden this morning After a weeks rain every thing is starting to look so lush again.

Vegetation grows on dead trees or alive ones every were you look in the wet.

Thank you for dropping in, now going to link with Esther on her WOW or WIP’s on Wednesday.  This blog took a lot to write after loosing all my blog on Sunday, but I think I will be OK now that I have written my first one since then.  Cheers Glenda