WOW or WIP’s with Esther June 27th 2018

This adorable cuddly Teddy was a gift he  is made up of 40 different pieces of soft fabric a real patchwork Teddy and I love him.

PLacing  the hearts is fun.  Making a Healing Heart is much quicker than buying a card and I think means more. You add a little of your self to it.

Sending a applique Healing Heart is much nice I think than just a get well card.

A Healing Heart will be on its way tomorrow?

Over 1/2 way? on making up these 1930’s 1/4 circle blocks, Ive had to remake most of these 1/4 circles to get them the right size. Have made them by hand.

Almost finished. Have since learnt this design was also called dinner plates and napkins I can see why now seeing the blocks laid out.  I’m using fabric from around 2010 for the bow tie shapes

Now on my work tables to sew all these wee blocks together.

Joining the blocks by machine , in rows then two rows then two rows to make 4 rows.

only the top two rows to sew together. love how it is growing.

I knew I had this fabric some where and a red from the same time around late 1950’s was in my  aunty’s fabrics, Im sure she bought it to make a dress but I saw a table cloth but never made it up, glad I didn’t now LOL

Added a red flan 1/2 an inch first then the yellow and now going to add the 1 1/2 inch red strip. next I have to find time to sandwich it??????

A stunning saffron and dove grey both are very beautiful

border on the saffron

close up! there is a metre of this heavy embossed fabric.

Same with the dove grey

Saffron also has machine embroidery around the bottom.

While looking for the yellow and red fabric I used above I came across two boxes with more 1930 blocks?????

Ive since found that it is called some times Glorified 9 patch or improved 9 patch, I think it must have a few different names.  these wee blocks need to be joined with a good contrast not the same florals as the designs is lost with out a good contrast.  will see if I have a reproduction fabric that will be OK .

That centre is a 1 inch plus volcano sticking up!!!!  the quilter ran a thread around those points and pulled the thread in and then has tried to get it to lye flat. it wont of course so unpicking all these blocks  and will remake them.

that red is made of wool fabric!!!!!  I will not put it make when I remake these blocks the colour and and fabric does not belong here?

Some nasty staining on some of the fabric, but love how they have patched the blue fabric to make another square for the 9 patch?????  I will leave this piece in as it shows how thrifty they had to be in the 1930’s and 40’s.

showing some of the wee blocks and the colours. these glorified 9 patches all have good contrast

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wee piles of unpicked squares that are all different sizes!!!!!

interesting patterns love the orange with the girls roller skating LOL

My pink cactus is just starting to flower

Roadfrontage is all most finished now just need to plant out some more Broms and a little more cleaning up.

MY herbs have doubled in size with the rain over the las5 3 days, at least some thing likes the rain?

White cactus is just starting to flower also.  Not so many flowers this year sadly.

IGreen green green every where, just on dusk and it’s just stopped raining too.