Would you believe it?

I forgot to add this quilt to my list of finished items for 2009. How could I??

Mum quilted it with individual borders around each block, the appliques are outlined, the little quilts are quilted free-hand... I have borders of flowers up the sides, clouds in the sky and a garden bed of flowers in the grass at the bottom.

It's the dollhouse quilt.

Aha! Another finish for 2009!! How many is that? I'll have a count...

Miniature Mountains

I have started a new miniature quilt - this is the Delectable Mountains block. Each block measures 4.5 inches unfinished. I need to make 20.

Well, that's 5 down and 15 to go!

Centrepiece

This is going to be the centre block in the 12 Days of Christmas quilt.

So far, it's a bird in a tree and some holly. LOL!! I've got more handwork to do on it... It's ready to take when I can hand-stitch...

Christmas is on it's way...

I still feel like I am getting ready for Christmas... Here are 2 out of 4 cornerstones I prepared for the 12 Days of Christmas quilt. I've got another 2 to go, and a few of the centre blocks left to do, then the outer border.

Hopefully I will be finished by Christmas. LOL!!

5-golden-rings

I only had a little bit more to add to this block... and now it's finished!

I have been working on so many things (but they are all from the list of 5!!).

I can't wait to see this quilt finished. I love it more all the time.

The Stuffing Brothers

When Rosie gave me a sock monkey kit and book for Christmas, she bought one for herself too. (see my last monkey post).

We have both been busting to start our sock monkeys, but we are not allowed to work on them if we are not together. We finally got together for a few hours last week, and this is what we got up to. This is the first sock, we have drawn on sewing lines to make the legs and main body from one sock.

Sewn and cut out above.

Ta-da! Here is Peejay turned right side out...

Would you believe two Peejays?

The next sock is a little scary... first we cut out the tail...

then the mouth..

Both our mouths are different, we need to decide which way up the mouth will go - you can see in the book there are so many variations.

Arms have been made, so has the tail.. Okay, let's go and stuff.

I think Rosie found it hard to stop stuffing, the sock just kept stretching to fit in more stuff.

What a fat monkey!

Mine was splitting himself if I tried to stuff too much in (the sock was laddering).

We found that Rosie had too much stuffing in her Peejay, so we took some out, and put some into my monkey.

Rather like Blood Brothers, this makes them Stuffing Brothers.

I can't wait until we meet up at quilt group this week so we can do some more on our Peejays. Now that we don't need our machines for a while, we can work on them at quilt group.

So cute... I want to make more... I need more socks!!

Golden

5-golden-rings are on their way in this block for the Twelve Days of Christmas BOM.

Just a few more details to add...

I am really looking forward to seeing this quilt finished.

What's on my list of 5?

1. sock monkey (yes I started him, show and tell later)

2. Pieces of the Past (applique blocks)

3. QuiltAid 2010 blocks and finishing

4. Embroidery and stumpwork sampler

5. 12 Days of Christmas

And, I am excited about them all!! Ok, I'm back on track. It's amazing how making a list can re-focus what I am supposed to be doing.