A quilt I made in Papua New Guinea 17 years ago 4th Feb 2015

I have not blogged the last two weeks as I have not been able to find time to do that much in the sewing area let alone blog. What time I had I spent on the below quilt; I’m adding an extra border to it after 15 years of it been a wall quilt that kept been used to cuddle under!!!!!

I’m using kimono fabric which is only woven at 14” wide you can see it lying on the quilt, I have folded it in 1/2 which makes it 7′ wide now and pinned it ready for sewing by machine.

Border fabric machine sewn on and then I have flipped the quilt over so now you are looking at the back of the quilt. I have place a double 3′ strip of wool batting and next I will fold the added fabric back over that and pin down.

Border fabric folded back and pinned ready for me to hand stitch down tonight. I have ended up with a 31.2″ border. I like to have a double thickness in my final borders as most quilts I have rescued from the 1930’s the very edge of the quilts have frayed on that final border first.

A Corner section of the quilt; right side is machine quilted and finished, after tonight I will machine quilt the left side and I will only have one more side to do. Yaaaaaa!!!!!

I’m happy with the fabric choice and I think Laure will be to. I will hand quilt the centre and this will take time but I trust my hands more than I trust a machine when quilting LOL This is the 2nd or 3rd quilt I ever made while living in Papua New Guinea around 1998

I’m back working on making little tiny pieces of LE. I never tire of working on this beautiful beautiful design of Esther’s.

I'm making my varies for Part 11 in two pieces as this means not so many sharp con-caves and con-curvess and they sit much better.

I’m making my fairies for Part 11 in two pieces as this means not so many sharp con-caves and con-curves and they sit much better.

100s of laure leaves needle basted over wash away freezer paper. Over 2/3 of the way with these lovely wee pieces.

My wee wooden sewing box is filling up quickly with needle basted pieces ready to be appliqué on to Part 11 one day LOL

Back working on my This Goes With That hexagon quilt I started several years ago with Sue Daley as a BOM I finally finished sewing the 30 hexagons on the right hand side now to do this corner and the top will almost be completed may be 2015 will see this quilt top completed??????