WOW or WIP’s with Esther
What greeted me this morning at dawn, it only lasted around 40 seconds but it was sooooo beautiful.
I’m cheating this week and using a blog I made up during the week, but it is what I’m working on to day also. I’m making a tiny house and at 1am I was working on my falcon wall hanging!!!!!!! Cheers Glenda
Im not sure what I will be adding here, have to check my photo’s to see what I did? First thank you yet again Lynette Meredithe and Anne running this this year it does help me try and keep on track LOL I will be linking this blog with 18 in 2018 at What a Hoot
Happy Easter every one.
Ohhhh dear its All new projects, I will run out of my 8 numbers soon LOL
NEW I loved every moment I spent on making this beautiful design of Esther’s. I’m not making the whole quilt just this centre for a wall art.
OK I finally finished my centre of Morning Glory A BOM for 2018 by Esther Aliu this was all machine appliquéd except for the cherries which I added padding too and hand appliquéd down to add a little 3D effect
Close up of the machine applqiue.
NEW I was only going to make the centre of this BOM but I just kept on going as I was loving these blocks that go around the centre and the borders got me too.
2nd block for Queens Garden a free BOM from Esther Aliu for 2018
Flowers are made of silk. Leaves cotton, my main stem looked to heavy for the rest of the delicate block so I added a fancy stitch down the middle of it and it made it look much softer.
NEW Ive all ways wanted to make a Red and Green quilt but never seen the right design to inspire me to say this is IT!!!!! Then Nancy in the USA showed me one she had made and that was it. It was a copy of a quilt made around 1880 and the copy was called . I’m making a modern version of it, I have changed the shape of the leaves, added different size berries, and using lots of reds, Added more leaves to give my block a circle look. but the lay out is basically the same? LOL
How my block will look, none of these berries were appliquéd down at this point. I was just looking to see what it would look like, there are around 200 berries for each block.
For my veins I added a embroidery stitch taken down to 1/4 size I’m very happy with how it looks. I’ve been learning so much about my machine the last 12 months since I started to teach my self machine applqiue.
I made a 1/2 leave so I could quickly draw my vein line on the 240 leaves I will be making?
On the right the normal size embroidery stitch and the left what I took it down to for my veins.
By adding leaves on the seams my leaves form a circle!
Centre Shannon roses are not ironed down just placed so I can see what it will look like. back right hand block leaves are also just placed. Waiting to machine applique those stems down.
As if I don’t have enough projects on the go!!! I have started making these tiny wee houses LOL They finish at 3inchs!!!!!! Nancy asked if I’d make them with her but I was not going to make them as I thought the challenge with such small pieces and machine made would be to much for me ? But when we had the terrible storms last week I decided I need something very challenging to take my mind off what was happening around me! First one took me 3 hrs to make LOL. And sure took my mind off the storm, next night we had 16inchs of rain in 4 hrs, again I need some thing to take my mind off that torrental rain, that one took me 2 hrs, tonight’s was just because I wanted to make another one LOL it took me One hour and a 1/4. So I’m improving time wise and now really enjoying making them LOL.
Trying to get my brain to work back to front is a real challenge????
First wee house that took only 3 hrs to make LOL
Then tiny house 2 just over 2hrs!!!!!
I’m calling this one Old-New but its not my UFO LOL
I did not make this beautiful beautiful crazy patch work bag, I found it in the thrift shop and had to rescue it, I spent the night I bought it threading pulled threads and sewing them back in to the bag. Now it looks like new, fabrics are velvets and satins it is so so beautiful, especially the bead work its been done by an artist of bead work.
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Stunning work!!!!
For the last two weeks up till 3 days ago we ahve had rain rain and more heavy rain and storms, then Monday night we were drowned in 14inchs of rain at our place and some areas over the catchment area 1/2 metre of water in 4 hrs!!!!!!
These falls are a 15min walk from our home. What the falls normally look like after rain?????
What the falls looked like after we had 14inchs and 1/2 metre on some parts of the catchment area Monday night.
Barronfalls in Flood yesterday Tuesday 27th March 2018 I took tis photo around 1pm Tuesday 27th 2018
Many had floodwaters through their homes some lost every thing. This is why I started making those wee Tiny houses and now I’m additive to them LOL
I was so surprised that a whole month had gone by and not one UFO worked on ? So today I’ve been working on my Hawk wall hanging that has been finished for about 20 years waiting to be sandwiched to quilted!!!
Shamed in to working on a UFO LOL This is a antique very fine wool panel woven for the lining of a mans Kimono jacket. I was lucky enough to find several yards not cut!
I’ve made up a backing from some very tightly woven navy kimono cotton also for lining a KimonoI just hope I can quilt through it? Now ready to pin
One finished UFO to the stage I wanted it to be, now to find time to hand quilt it?
I hand quilted around the Fallcon at 1am this morning ? !
I hope more of you have been more successful at working on UFO’s than I have been LOL
Also linking with Esther Aliu’s WOW or WIP’s today Wednesday 4th April 2018
Cheers Glenda
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