WOW or WIP’s with Esther Aliu 1Nov 2018

1. Some how it’s Nov and I’m seeing Christmas trees and decorations for sale and I feel like I’ve just put mine away from 2017?  I’m thinking of Christmas food to make when I’m cut

ting fabric,  I’m thinking who will be coming home this Christmas for Christmas dinner?  Then I get so carried away with my quilt top my day has gone LOL. Then its Wednesday again and it’s WOW or WIP’s with Esther

This week it has been a week of making my scrappy blocks in to a quilt top then the challenge of making a top and bottom border. Fun of challengers is you get to play longer? My scrappy blocks are all starters and Enders when I’m sewing on my machine.  Started doing this in Feb this year and by June had made 13 blocks.

It still need the last 3 seams sewn but I have got side tracked thinking about top and bottom borders?

Now I wanted to make it longer not wider for a bed top.

My first attemp but it was out of balance?

I tried some left over pieces from another quilt top??? A knew that Red was to strong but kept going!!!

Tried adding a few circles? I love circles LOL

OK those strong reds have to go??? Will try just circles and be radical? Nope TO strong like neon lights in Hong Kong!  You just see the lights an$ not the beautiful harbour!

I’ve all ways wanted to make some squares in squares let’s try them???  Nope far to heavy. ,

Let’s turn them? No out of balance!

Yes in balance but not in harmony???

Vicki sent me a photo of a simple  but lovely border that I felt would work but it would take quiet a few hrs to make???  So I stoped protastering yesterday and Bingo!!!

If at first you don’t succeed try try and try again, but for me it was 8 try agains LOL

those Scrappy squares are 2inchs cut, border is made of 2inch strips longest 3 1/2 inches long.

Making the scrappy 2inchs by 5 inch’s border strips there are 18 of these ones in each border.

So that was my week of sewing .  Let you into  a Secret those last 3 seams are still not done LOL

Update Wednesday 9pm I have been ironing dry old napkins, hankchiefs, or sevettets made from Lawn, linen or cotton for some hexagon vintage blocks I’m dreaming of making ?  I will use them as fillers so they will be cut up, so it does not matter if they have holes in them seams are coming undone or lace is eaten by moths in some parts?!

Old linen and Handkerchiefs been recycled into vintage hexagon blocks like Rhonda Cox Dort lovely hexagon blocks on Quilting Vintage.

I love this old hat box I found in a thrift shop.

It holds some of my old linen pieces.

Taken in my garden at 6.30am this morning.

Now some creepy crawlies, yes they are back again.

He flew on to hubbies back last night 2inchs long and had a nasty pair of nippers, he was not happy when I was trying to put him out side?

Advantage of dust on the floor here, centipedes get caught in it, on my bedroom floor this morning? Dead but it must have been in the unit for some time?

Update 11.30am Iv’e just been in the pool to cool down?

I noticed while in the pool the corner creeper left hand side was covered in dozens of buds the first time it has ever flowered like this ?

Buds every where!

These buds normal don’t open but this year must have been the perfect climate or it’s mature enough now after 25 years LOL

And the perfect bloom?

Thank you for visiting and staying till the bottom of the page LOL  I’m off to link with Esther now on her WOW or WIP’s

Happy sewing or what ever you enjoy doing. Cheers Glenda