Black & White sample blocks with a touch of red 3rd Dec 2014

How did Dec come through so quickly this year. My DGD has all ready started her school holidays and next year will be her last year at college????? My WIP project for this year is still not finished which I’m disappointed at but it will have to be 1915 goal now. My LE is slowly growing and I’m happy with that. With family living back here now I find I’m doing little sewing jobs here and there for them so we can not do every thing, well I can not LOL.. BUT I have cleared my mending pile which I’m so happy to have done before Xmas.

I cut out and made a wee DJ block B4 Chris’s Soccer Field,

All pieces have freezer paper ironed on behind them, this makes it so much easier to work with when the pieces are so small.

I used a dark chocolate and a light cream and maroon fabric, I have to admit that it took me at least 4 hours to make .

A D.J. block ready to be put away with it’s others waiting for one day till they are ALL finished.

Attached to pattern ready to be filed in to a sle

Tacked to pattern ready to be filed in to a sleeve wight eh others from Row B of DJ’s

This cathedral pillow came in to the Opp Shop last week I fell in love with it it is beautifully made and the colours were me, I was sad to see it there when some one had spent so so many hours making it for some one.

23145 Also brought home this fully lined sheep skin jacket from NZ it is so soft but sadly the cuff had been ripped off nearly completely on one sleeve so I carefully unpicked the stitching and rehang sewed it back on, now it is as good as new.

I’m thinking about making a Kimono jacket out of some WIP’s I have, I have more than enough bed quilts and far to many blocks completed but no were to go???? I guess we all have this problem. These are some sample blocks I did several years ago when I was teaching beginners appliqué I always liked to make the blocks my self each time and I made these Black and white with a touch of red blocks way back then. I did frame them ready to make in to a quilt but they are still UFO’s!!!!! I have enough blocks for the front and the back of the sleeves and I will make the back a solid black. It will be padded and quilted so a winter jacket.

Today I’m adding long sleeve Stretch cotton fabric inserts

Work shirts I’m adding the long stretch fabric sleeves too.

to DS’s building work-shirts that are short sleeved not good in our hot summers at 36C I added them to one of them during the week and he said they worked perfectly and would I like to do them for a living I said no thank you LOL.

Was looking for my 12 Days of Xmas wall hanging have not found it but found this,

I made the background fabric up added the top leaves and lotus flowers then passed it on to the next quilter after 12 months and 11 other quilters adding something it arrived back home and what fun it was to open it.

close up of one corner the fish and the Mandarin Duck have so much detail and the fish men and boat are such tiny pieces of fabric I love this detail, then we have the sea snake that wriggles behind the fabric which the quilter unpicked to be able to do this. I will thread some wool through it to make it more round and scary LOL. Then some one added the wee frog it just goes on and on. Oh yes there is a cobweb and spider there too!!!!

it was a wall hanging I made with 12 other ladies online about 7 years ago. I made the background fabric and added the lotus flowers and leaves then each quilter added some thing else after 12 months it came back like this. It is a quilt the more you look the more you see. I think I will add a border now and give it to a children’s ward at the local hospital. Kiddies would love it.

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12 Days of Xmas Esther’s design which was a BOM several years ago and what fun it was to make each month. I made mine larger by adding the candles, more parcels and the holly leaves below.