Long Lost UFO

I was pottering around on my day off yesterday and I found this long, lost UFO.

It's part of a borders quilt. I started this quilt in March 2002 (according to the class schedule I found with it). This class is where I first remember meeting Andrea .

Oh yes, I had big plans for this quilt - it was going to go on my king sized bed. You should see the drawings I made on graph paper.. well, that's not going to happen now. These colours aren't really my bag now.. and some of the fabrics well...

Here are a couple of borders ready to attach (above). All I had to do was 3 little pieces of applique on one of the corner blocks. I have done that now, and need to trim the blocks down to fit the border. That is where the quilt will stop.

I thought to myself, "Yeah! I can liberate the rest of the fabric!!" But.. some of it will be liberated in quite a different way.... I wonder what size quilt back it will make if I join them all together??

And here are today's Gypsy Girl blocks...

Nearly finished another one!!

I've sewn the binding on my Little Tailfeather quilt ready for hand-stitching.

Mum has custom-quilted it so beautifully. I couldn't be happier. I will show you in more detail after I sew the binding down... Ooh! nearly another finish!!

Gypsy Girl.. a new project!!

I love these Meadowsweet fat quarters... I am going to use 21 of them to make a new quilt.

Here are some more of the fat quarters on my ironing board.

Don't they look fab all together?


This is the first stage of making the blocks. I have made all 31 blocks up to this stage...

And these are my first completed blocks.

Not much green in these ones... all the colours will spread out in the finished quilt...

This is going to be a nice quick finish!!

Pieces of the Past quilt top finished!!

Yippee!! It's such a good feeling when you've met a deadline!

This morning I finished sewing the borders around the outside of the quilt. This afternoon my DH added the binding on with Photoshop!! LOL!!

The soft waves of leaves look really colourful on their dark purple backgrounds. The blocks are quite geometric, and I feel the leaves take away their harsh edge. The quilt seems to have so much movement, it is really eye pleasing, and I am really pleased. VBG.

Mum, this quilt top will be coming your way very soon... I hope you can fit me in!!

Okay, next job!!

What do you think?

What do you think of this border?

Do you see that bit of bright red fabric on the right side? That is what I ordered for the outer border, but the colour wasn't right. It was a bright blue red and I needed to use a rusty red.

I've sewn on the top and bottom and I will audition cornerstones tomorrow. Tonight I need to finish re-appliqueing the leaves over the edges of the sashing.

I just hope this border is not too busy.

Fun news!

We had a little win over the weekend....



Andrea's Nearly Insane quilt was awarded First Prize in the large pieced and appliqued, domestic quilted quilt section.

My miniature quilt was awarded First Prize in the small quilt/wallhanging section.

And Lizzie's quilt won First Prize in the Circus Challenge!!

Okay, it's confession time. Lizzie runs the Civil War Bride Quilt blog... and we challenged each other to finish our quilts for the Ballan Show in 2 years time... that will mean we have spent 3 years on the quilt (on and off, mostly off lately.. I haven't worked on my CWBQ since November last year.) I know I can pick it up again in June... I can't wait!!

Eye candy at the Ballan Quilt Show

So much to show you from the Ballan Quilt and Craft show this weekend. This is Helga's Sunbonnet Sue quilt (I snapped this picture for Rosie)...

The theme for the show was The Circus. I just had to show you all the props on display....

I have no idea where they got a carousel horse from!

This is the entrance to the display. How special!!

These screens were especially painted...

I had to show you this quilt.. just stunning.

Andrea just finished this quilt in time for the show!!

This is one of 3 quilts made with a very traditional look... I couldn't resist snapping all of them. Would you believe they are all made by the same man (Neil)?? He used machine blanket-stitch, then had them professionally quilted.
Correction -Bernadette left me a message after seeing this post: Neil quilted this four-block quilt himself. Thanks for the tip Bernadette. I whizzed past some of the labels too quickly and jumbled up the info.

I love this Dorothy fabric. Doesn't the rainbow really stand out?

This Baltimore is another Neil quilt... just gorgeous.

I like this strippy stars quilt - I can see myself making it with repro fabrics.

Another Neil applique quilt...

These lollipops were made from fabric - part of the circus-theme atmosphere.

What a stunning quilt!! I just had to share it with you...

I hope you feel as inspired as I do!!