WOW or WIPs with Esther 13th June 2018

Hello ALL from down under where it is a picture perfect day now after a very heavy misty morning till around 8.30pm

Those white dots on the grass are all spiderwebs it’s an amazing site to see. When the sun comes out they all disappear?

Sun has burnt of the mist and it’s a beautiful day now 9.30am

My Abstract logcabin

During the week Adding the backing and wadding to my QAYG -. First I machine stitched the final border to the quilt top added cotton batting folded border over it then thread basted the panel down for machine quilting.

Two sides finished ready for machine quilting. Centre was done as quiltasyougo log-cabin blocks

Using a piece of fabric I bought from the USA 12 years ago from around 1930

3 down one to go?

All borders added now but need to thread baste the top and bottom they are just pinned at present then it will be in the machine quilting pile???

A healing heart ready to machine applqiue

Playing with some 1930s tiny pieces of fabric I bought on E Bay about 15 years ago from the USA for a few dollars back then, I came across them on Monday night when looking for some thing?????? And decided to play with them?

I cut out enough bow tie shapes in dark fabrics to frame all those tiny pieces and also needed to cut more of the outer circles to have enough to make up a single quilt top? Dark fabrics Iv’e had for over 10 years. Many of the 1/4 circles Ive had to unpick and resew but Im enjoying working on them and knowing finally they are going to be a quilt to be loved and used for the unknown quilter who started them 90 years ago?

These are all just placed only some of the inner 1/4 circles are sewn. Nearly all the 1/4 circles are 1930 fabrics. Some shirting and well worn the rest I think dress scraps.y

I’ve just completed on Block it is 9 1/2 inch’s square, I had to unpick the 1/4 circles recut them resew them, then carefully sew them to the bow tie shape, at the start of each seam it had to be 1/16th seam then go to Under 1/4 inch seam around the rest to get the block to lye flat. Now to do the same for the other 34 LOL. I have almost redone all the 1/4 circles and can start making these blocks now.

18 years ago we lived in PNG. (Papua New Quinea) for 6 years, it is a very very beautiful country and I was lucky enough to fly over most of it and visit many remote areas as my hubby worked in the aviation business. One of the most amazing things I saw were the women hand weaving beautiful bilum (bags), each village had their own designs they used in their Bilums when I returned to Australia to live I was gifted with many of these beautiful crafted bags. So today I’m sharing some of them instead of my garden.

Made from natural vanilla bean fibres and would be used to carry or hang a baby when sleeping or vegetables, it was a special gift.

Natural vibes. It Was used as part of their ceremonial dress. Very special and my pride and joy as it was a very very special gift.

below bilums are made now for gifts or for the tourist trade. It’s one way the village women can make some money.

PNG bilum bag, these are made from yarn replyed on their thighs to make a much stronger yarn then hand woven using a stick to poke the thread through or a darning needle if they are lucky enough, it is woven to look like knitting and it take months to make them, original ones were made from the vanilla bean fiber.