I finally found my Churndash quilt top last week and have sewn on the last border, so wonderful to have it completed. Background of the churndash blocks are a silk and the pattern cotton. More I see it the more I like this quilt top? Loved making the borders for it.
Trying to find time to write my blog this week, now 8.30pm Wednesday evening. I will share some of what Iv’e done and doing and have received over January and now February, I’m not sure what happened to Jan???
Iv’e Just set out another memory block of my mums treasures. She use to make these ladies in the 1950’s placing one in each corner of a metre square piece of coloured gingham fabric, I still have one some where?
I have removed all the little bits and pieces and sewing down the top lac e that reminds me of hanging wisteria, and the Crinaline lady using beads. It’s slow and relaxing, much more so than writing a late blog LOL. First I laid some dusky pink silk fabric then the share lace over the top 1/2 of the block with a 1/2 inch lace across the very top to anchor any thing up there to later on? Will take me 5or 6 days to addthe beads to her dress and the above sheer lace.
Stunning a exciting solids
A fabulouse and over whelming gift I’m still recovering from this beautiful gift a quilts dream come true?!
Who can go past cheeries
Fabulouse panel of fabric
I was hoping to get this wee beauty going this week but I have not even uncovered her.
Hubby’s going to put a handle on the wheel when we find the right one. This wheel is the heavy wheel that was made for a crank shaft, the lighter ones came out in the 20s when they started to add the little electrical motors which were mounted on to the back of the machine?
After Hubby had adapted the above a friend bequeathered this beauty to me, some thing I have been wishing for since I was around 23? when we moved around the Pacfic Island when we often did not have power, so if you wish hard and long enough it happens.
my dream comes true she’s very old and needs a great deal of TLC but with thT a love she will go I’m sure?
She has 6 lovely draws and one long one still. Only thing missing is one wheel
oh my goodness she does need help, I don’t think she has been touched for 30 or40 years!!!
But with a wee clean she looks different all ready.
Love the art Nouveau paintings?
Number that tells us how old she is. 1923 so she is almost 100 years young LOl.
top is quiet damaged sadly.
Every one of the additional parts for the sewing machine are there including the original box? Brings back lots of childhood memories as I learnt to sew on my mums singer treadle?
there are mudnests every where from the mud wasps.
it does need that top replaced sadly.
This narrow long draw had dozens and dozens of mudnests.
this does not look good but we will see what we can do?
Very sad to see how corroded this piece is, but I’m sure it will clean up?
Well I will close on some photos I took this morning off friends QAYG hexagon quilt top? 
Thanks for lasting till the end LOL. Off to link up with Esther Aliu now on her lovely Wednesday session of sharing. Cheers ALL Glenda
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