WOW or WIP’s with Esther 4th July 2018

WOW or WIP’s come far to fast this year??? I’m down in the city for 2 1/2 weeks baby sitting my sons home while he and the family are on holiday . Writing up my blog on my iPad which is so slow but where there is a will there is a way. https://estheraliu.blogspot.com/2018/07/wow-new-habits.html

Im treating these weeks as a retreat just for sewing !!! And loving every moment here this is my view while sewing it’s a tough life for some! It’s wonderful to be sewing out side all day even if it’s raining?

My view while sewing

House is up high so I can look out above the housesThis morning I machine appliqueing one of my borders for Queens Garden

How lucky I am.

It was very very peaceful till the road cleaner arrived in the area LOL

I have brought two very old UFO’s with me to work on. First one is a pile of 1930 blocks that I bought online 15 years or more ago from the USA Finally found out they are called Glorified 9 patch blocks, only thing Glorified about them is the sweet fabric that the unknown Quilters used, I say Quilters as these patches have been made by at least 3 different Quilters at some stage now I’m the 4th??? Some one tried to sew some of these blocks together but the melons that have been used were far to small buy more than 1/4 of an inch so in every join where the 8 points meet are huge volcanoes,

Back of volcanoe which looks like a mountain LOL

so I unpicked all the melons and started again but my blocks would not lye flat so unpicked a block and found that all the corner 9 patches had to much fabric some more than 1/4 of an inch, and none are square !!!! So I’m unpicking and recutting them all and slowly sewing them back into blocks!!!

Pieces of fabric I’ve had to cut off on just one block to make it lye flat? You can see why it was flutting LOL. I have the first two rows almost done?

Glad to see progress on these wee blocks as the fabrics are so sweet.

12 blocks unpicked, ironed recut ready to be sewn back into blocks?

I went back home Monday night as I had work early Tuesday morning, I decided to move all my boxes of fabric and bits and pieces out to the new storage room now that’s it’s all clos3d in to give me more work space and found another pile of UFO blocks I started around 20 years ago!!!!!

Spread these out on a double bed to see what I had? Now why did I reverse some of the fabric on some off these blocks???? You can see 4 in the first two rows as they are dark brown compared to the beige that is the front of the fabric in all the other blocks?? There are 8 blocks were the fabric is back to front and I will have to unpick and resew them?

Last night I cut and sewed cut and sewed after removing all the blocks that had any dark natal patches !!! Now only using the cream patches and I can see the secondary pattern form now?

Only some of these wee blocks are complete most need the spacers sewn on. But it now is starting to look like a quilt top t9 be?

Taken in day light this morning! Colurs are truer.

This shows you the beige silk kimono fabric that is making up the 9patches!

This is the repeat pattern on the fabric which is woven at only 14inchs wide. its 4 wee houses amongst the trees.

In the garden here to day, very different to my garden?

Stunning creeper that loves the high temps and dry

GLoriouse colour

close up.

these love the hot and dry.

my DDIL planted these tomatoes plants out just before she left 1 1/2 weeks ago and the were so big they had fallen down so I have staked them and started to prune and tie them.