What I did to day? Today I wrote a blog on 6and6in2018 this is 6 UFO’s and 6 new Projects that I have worked on this year. I have had visitors all this week, I have been lucky enough to babysit 2 of my DGC 3 times this week as its school holidays, and one of my sons flew home to spend 5 days with me so I have had no time to sew and no time to write up a WOW or WIPs blog so sharing this one with you all. Happy sewing All Glenda
Thank you Meredithe and Anne for this group which has motivated me all year.
This year has flown in and out each month so quickly I kept forgetting to write up a blog!? To day while baby sitting Ive taken the plunge and started my blog for this month. I have not written any thing on the photo’s yet but will hopefully get some done today as well. Ive linked to make my self try and finish it!!!!! Below are some of my UFO’s and some new quilts???? It has been a great year for me productive wise, many finishes which is unusual for me LOL
I bought the centre of these wee circles about 20 years ago online they are 1930’s fabrics, the bowtie fabric ive had for about 10 years and earlier in the year I took the bull by the horns and deiced to make up these blocks in to a quilt top>
My finished UFO 1
I found these QAYG blocks in a secondhand shop around 5 years ago, I had to unpick most of them as very few were cut to the same size then I added the last 2 fabrics around them.
UFO Abstract log-cabin finished! 2
A new QUILT :-One night I had a dream about a Dragon-tree quilt? When I woke up a drew my tree straight away on some fish and chip paper!!!!
Pinned to black fabric which has iron-on-fussing added and then drew around the pattern by fine chalk and carefully cut my tree out in the black fabric
Then carefully placed on to a sarong and ironed down followed by machine appilque. My dragonflies are machine appilqued using sparkly blue and red thread as these are the colours of the Dragonflies we have in the summer over our pond and swimming pool.
Dragonflies! New Quilt 1
I made these blocks when teaching a beginner class for appliqué, there were 6 blocks in the class but I made extra blocks for this quilt top. My challenge to make it more interesting for myself for was I could only use black and white and a touch of red.
Finished UFO 3
New mini quilt, these lovely wee houses were put up by Tiffany I made one as a challenge by a friend which turned in to 16 I loved making them
Mini quilt these wee houses are 3 1/2 inches finished? New Quilt 2
Centre of Esther Aliu free BOM Queens Garden for 2018
Queens Garden New quilt 3
My last QAYG hankie Block so happy to have these all finished They are made from beautiful fine delicate hankies from around 19 50 to 1960 many were my mums. Grandmothers flower garden blocks are repro-prints from 1930’s .
Finished UFO 4
Centre for Morning Glory one of Esther Aliu BOMS for 2018 I adored this quilt centre the first time I saw it.
Finished centre I worked Bordier-Perse for my flowers instead of building the flowers by applqiue. I love this as it is and will quilt it as a wall art. Finsihed New Quilt 4
Unpicking and redoing a great many of these churn-dash UFO’s of around 15 years!!!!! after removing all the blocks that had any dark patches with the churndash shapes and only using the cream patches and I can see the secondary pattern so easy? I unpicked all those blocks that I had used a dark fabric>
Another finished UFO 5
Ive all ways wanted to make a Red and Green quilt, my friend Nancy Paris showed me a quilt top she had made and I loved it, this was the start of my Red and Green quilt this year, all the stems and leaves are machine appliqued down but I’m making my circles and hand aplqiueing them and padding them also.
Of course I had to change the pattern or it would not be me LOL I changed the shape of the leaves and added more leaves on the joins of the blocks so my secondary patten shows those leaves forming circles? Not finished by a long way as I have a huge border to add yet, so we wont call this a finish LOL
I made a Florence Peto My Calico Garden years ago in bright colours and the blocks 6 1/2 inches square, and have always wanted to make it again in the more traditional colours she made them in the 1950’s
and her she is??? in 4 1/2 inch blocks and more traditional colours Finished new Quilt number 5
Esther Aliu released a bonus design Juliette this year and I just had to make it, from the first stitch I could not stop sewing this beautiful design.
Beautiful beautiful Juliette. Finished new quilt Number 6
A mini Round Robyn made about 12 years ago by myself and 6 other quilters? I did not want it to make it in to a pillow and be chewed by dogs or have dirt feet propped up on it LOL SO it stayed in draws since it came back to me. 3 weeks ago I came across it again and deiced there and then it was going to become a bed quilt!!!! See below a all most finsihed bed quilt top, If I finish it this week I will update this photo. Finished UFO quilt 6
Finished quilt top, I just have to sew on the black and it’s ready to be sandwiched for quilting. I need to take a photo in the day time to show the true colours.?
So I have meet my challenge? Thank you so much Anne and Meredithe for a great year. I have made more new and finished more UFO’s but these are the ones I wish to share with you now.
Cheers Glenda FNQLD>
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