Fruits of labour

These blocks are now fully grown and ripefor piecing - ready to add as the border to the Little Tailfeather quilt centre.These fabrics look so juicy!! No wonder I like these so much - these are the colours of my blog. Look at the font and surrounds. LOL!!

I hope to get the border added and the quilt top finished tonight and give it to Mum for quilting tomorrow. YAY!! I want to sneak a couple more finishes to my 2009 finished list before the end of the year...

The last raspberry

This is the last stitchery block from the raspberry cream pattern. This is an Angel... and she still has her halo!

I really enjoyed adding a second colour to the stitcheries to add a different accent on each little picture.

Here are 3 of the stitcheries... Rudy has gone walking.... LOL!!!

More raspberries please

Even though they are not rabbits, they are multiplying just like them!!

It's because I love stitcheries!! And these are so easy to do...

These are more from the raspberry cream pattern...

Awww... too cute for words!!

One more stitchery to go, then I need to put them together into a little wallhanging.

Only half grown

These little blocks are going to be the border around the centre of the Little Tailfeather quilt.

There are 24 blocks, but these are only half grown. They all need another round of log cabin before they are "ripe".

Well... they do look good enough to eat!! The colours remind me of Summer fruit (I have been eating peaches and nectarines... yum!!).

Who is this?

I resigned myself to the fact that I would not get the smoking jacket done by last Tuesday, and started another project that wasn't too hot to sit on my lap while hand-stitching.

Also.. I decided last year that I wanted to finish all my Christmas decos for 2009 by the 1st December 2009 so that I could enjoy them!!

I've still got a couple of other family Christmas presents to make too, but overall, I have finished Christmas shopping for my quilty friends.

Who is this little reindeer?

It's Rudolph... with his knobbly knees....

He is from the new Cinderberry Stitches pattern "Raspberry Cream". The original pattern is stitched in only one colour thread, but I chose a variegated red and pink and offset it with green.

Oooh.

Centrefold

This is the centre of the Little Tailfeather quilt.


I still need to add the borders made of log cabin blocks with little birds in each corner.

Even though I didn't piece each square individually (I used strip piecing), there were a heck of a lot of seams to match!! I pin each seam join with 3 pins, so it took all day to get the blocks together with all the little squares.

And onto the borders! Yeeha!

My homework...

This was my embroidery and embellishment homework. The pieces are appliqued on.

I have worked pears and leaves. Unfortunately the flash has blown out the fabric - I must have taken the photo too closely.

I've already learnt a few new stitches. Next we are working on the bird body with a few new stitches incorporating beading. I have another class in 2 weeks, so I will have homework to show sometime before then.