Annabelle quilt for SaraJean 4th March 2015

My Love Entwine it slowly grows how I love this beautiful design of Esther’s. I have worked constantly on the DutchPixies as I call them this week day and evenings. I need to make up around 23 pink clogs and around 11 red ones then another 22 cones for the last side. SO there are weeks of basting and appliqué here still.

I have been working on LE for over a year now and still I get so much joy from working on it, but for some reason my 4th vase is eliding me, I just can not start it, I have made the vase but not one flower yet not even the stems I keeping asking my self why am I avoiding starting it????? I still don’t know the answer so the corner still sits empty!!!!

I have been working on finishing the backing centre of my Annabelle quilt and appliquéing Dutch Pixies on to my Love Entwine quilt by Esther this week. You can find more on Annabelle on Michelle’s blog. Last week I gave you her blog address which I’m sad to say was incorrect, I had added au on the end which is for Australia force of habit I guess, see below correct address I hope.

A simple Thread http://xstitchalley.blogspot.com/ http://xstitchalley.blogspot.com

Last week I made hearts 2 days and night and found some more WIP’s that I think might work here .

Changed my mind and decided to make the quilt in to a single quilt size rather than baby size????? She will grow out of a baby quilt so quickly!!!! So I made more circle blocks which added another 8inches to the width then added a green 2 inch border around the centre and again around the outer circles and hearts. This has made it 12inchs wider and 8inchs longer.

Centre back ground finished . I now need to make a border at the top and bottom to make it long enough for a single bed quilt I’m thinking of little sheep at the bottom and some Dutch memories at the top. .

I have made 3 little lambs in felt so far; I have taken this idea from the Little Lamb quilt of Esther’s. My little niece who this quilt is for her Mum is from NZ and there are more sheep than people in NZ at the top I want to add Dutch symbols as her dad is from Holland so I will be influenced by Omar’s Blues with that border.

UPDATE. 3 pm Wednesday I have been working on these wee lambs today have enough now for the bottom border off to look at Dutch symbols now.

Looking at the photo below I’m thinking wow this would make a wonderful wall art but i will never have the time to sew them all on to a large piece of fabric, but I do have lots of my grandmothers, aunts, friends and mothers buttons upstairs, may be one day one of my DGD and I could glue them on to a large black board??????

last week a huge bag of buttons came in to the shop, I was home off sick so the girls made up a basket of things for me to look after, some beautiful doily sets which are soaking in Nappy-san to hopefully remove the storage stains. I spent an evening sorting the buttons what fun that was now they are in jars ready to be sold.