12th Sept 2018. WOW or WIP’s with Esther

My week started out great with this find in my Opp Shop on Friday.  Some one had made a huge coushion with this fabric, I sat one night and unpicked and unpicked roughly two hours it had been made with a floating wide border and no cutting of the fabric just folded and folded, so ?I ended up with two whole pieces of fabric roughly 1 1/8th metre square.

This fabric was a coushion

Fabric washed and pressed ready to use, I just love this panel, I was thinking of border perse whenI bought it but now will keep it for the centre of a quilt as it’s to beautiful to cut up?

My Calico Garden quilt top is finally finished.

My Calico Garden is finished and put away till I can find time to sandwich it?????

When sashiko quilting my Bargello last week I removed on the the rustproof safety pins and to my horror it was soooo rusty!  So mostly this week I ahve been machine quilting the Bargello down, this is taking for ever as I need to pin each tiny piece of fabric I’m going to machine quilt with 3 pins to make sure it will all lay flat!!!!!   Its very very time consuming but Im happy how its coming up it is going to lay very very flat LOL

I discovered that all the quilting pins over 1 30 of them have rusted!!!!!

Each time I have to pin like this before machine quilting these tiny pieces down 2inchs long and stat at 1/4 of an inch wide? 

First I draw my design free hand difficult to photography 

Then just sashiko along those lines or change them if it does not feel right?

Love how you can just let the needle go where it wants too?

Today I was looking for some thing? but I  didn’t find it but came across a few UFOs

A mini Round Robyn made about 12 years ago? around 20inchs square?  I love it need to build a quilt top around it?

A challenge was to make a wedding quilt We had to use the colour  we least liked using mine was brown?

I hated mine when it was finished so decided to make a embroidery Heart in each blank blocks?  My idea was the brown was masculine for the male and the flowers were for the women in this marriage quilt to be??????  I started this around 25 years ago!!!!!

Close up of one of the hearts? I did love making up these wee heart designs.

I had no books I just made these hearts up as I went.

I also did not know how to do embroidery so learnt as I went?

most of my hearts just grew?

many of the stitches were from my memories of my mum doing beautiful beautiful embroidery when I was a tiny child.  I just kept making up stitches.

Quilt As You Go logcabin quilt is finished

Back of my log cabin

Finally finished and on its way, I will miss this one as I love the colours but it’s going to some one special in my life.

Thanks for visiting and staying till the end LOL   No garden photos as not 100% today so writing from my bed.  Just a virus will be back on my feet tomorrow I hope.  Off to link with Esther on her WOW or WIP’s now.  Hope you all have a wonderful week of sewing or dreaming of sewing !!!!!!   Cheers Glenda  from Australia in the far north tropics where winter never comes.  .