I’m sharing a tiny Easter quilt Esther designed in 2013.
Happy Easter every one.
I started this wee quilt in 2013 for my DGS and finally turned it in to a quilt on Friday last. It is about 6inchs square the grey area is the design. He has pinned it on to his wall the last two years but this year he is able to hang it LOL I quilted a red square and added the black border,then machine appliquéd the tiny grey centre to the red square I had quilted then machine appliquéd around all the main parts. Now it is a real wee quilt !!!!!!! Around the outer edge of the grey we are putting the years he has it hung, he now has 2013 2014 2015!!!!! I wonder how many years the dates will added in the future. ?????
These lovely old hand embroidered doilies from around 1960’s came in to the shop, I brought home a pile of them to wash and press, we will sell them on our cake-stall which we have once a month. These ones haves small holes in the fabric or the crochet is coming undone, but i thought that I could still use them in my crazy quilt as patches this way they will live another day.
28th March. Well I have been working on that last row of QAYG blocks, unfortunately I have run out of high loft wadding for the last 3 blocks ; isn’t that Murphy’s Law for you?????? I have completed one of 7 and hopefully will have a few more completed by Wednesday.
Final 7 completed. yesterday. Now I have to decide on how to arrange them and sew them all together.
I have completed restoring panel 4 now embroidering around each piece of fabric this is the first block I have done herring bone around each patch. I enjoy embroidering around these tiny pieces of fabric pulling threads at random and sewing.
I have just started resorting panel 5. this panel has a lot of patches that need to be replaced, but I have the fabrics now and time I hope LOL First block here needs 3 pieces replaced, I have cut the green pink and white pieces ready to hem then appliqué on. You can see my first doily I have cut to use, the embroidery is so so good I thought it was machine done at first.
I sewed these 3 pieces together first as they all had to be replaced and they were all next to each other, then hemmed around these 3 wee pieces of fabric except where they were on the seam allowance of the block, I unpicked the blocks here and then machine sewed them back tucking the new seam allowances in, this gives a neat look and finish to the added wee patches, now I will go and sit out side and appliqué these 3 patches down. Green patch is from Julie, pink a very very old silk tie from Paris, and the white is from a doily?????
How is that for a colour combination?????? Flowering in my garden at present.
A beautiful tree frog he came in to the veranda two night s ago. His body was about 4″ long and he was not scared of me at all, just sat there and let me get up close and personal. LOL
No beach today, hubbies car is on the blink so he is using mine till the parts arrive so I’m going to spend it sewing instead working on my crazy quilt out on the veranda listening to music, hubby fixed an old gramophone and I will play my old LP’s .
I’m off to link up with Esther now she has almost completed quilting her lovely Lilly Rose quilt.
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