The Garden Is Growing

I have finished another two Garden Song blocks.

Really enjoying making them... almost half way (Listen to me - isn't that how we motivate ourselves to finish a project, when we've only made 3 blocks???)

The variety of flower petal fabrics (around the outside of the applique centres) are starting to look interesting.

They certainly look more dynamic together as a team. Well, I did choose the fabrics because I thought they looked together.

Time to keep sewing!!

Bird in the garden

There's a bird in this garden!

This is my first completed block for the "Garden Song" quilt, designed by Nancy Halvorsen of Art To Heart.

I am machine blanket-stitching. This is the project I need to focus on... for now anyway.... LOL!!

A little bit of froth

There was enough fabric to make a tablerunner in the Java fabric too.

Look at those coffee bean prints!!

I love a quick finish!! (Just every now and then...)

Thanks for quilting it Mum...

Coffee has perked!!

This is the Java wallhanging.

I just love the freshness of the colours in the fabric print.

It sure makes me want to perk coffee in retro coffee makers, and drink from Spanish coffee cups.

I know just where to hang it too! (Derr, it's already hanging, that's how I took a photo...)

If you squint, you might be able to see the coffee cups Mum quilted on it for me - with steam curling out of the cups. Love it!!

Pretty Boho

I think there is smoke coming out of my sewing machine!! I just sewed and sewed.

I really should listen sometimes. I ran out of bobbin twice while sewing one particular seam (How do you do that? I finished one bobbin, then put in another with only a bit of thread left on it. I wanted to empty it so I could fill a few bobbins at once - not enough for the whole row of sewing though). So, onto the third bobbin for that row.... then I had to unpick it all. Sewed it in the wrong place, silly me!! I should have listened - the machine was telling me something!

Now the centre of the quilt top is all sewn, I can sweep the floor. Yuck! All the threads and fluff that drop when handling fabric! It's a very dusty occupation, this sewing caper.

I need to audition borders, then sew them on. Now the quilt pieces are off the floor, I think I will leave it for a few days. I am exhausted!! (but a very happy kind of exhausted!!).

Pretty Penelope is developing her own Boho sort of feel, and I am loving it!

Avoiding housework in more ways than one

I am finding "Pretty Penelope" (as I have nick-named this quilt-to-be) to be an absolutely addictive plaything. To design the quilt layout, first I had to make as many blocks as I want (at least to start with, I could always make more or exclude some if necessary).

Then I arranged all the strips before doing any sewing.

Next I made the cornerstones and laid them all out. I had to avoid placing the black cornerstone with a black frame as the four-patches were totally lost where that occurred.

So, the entire quilt is currently laid out on the "design floor" (i.e. the floor, in lieu of a "design wall"). You can see only the first couple of rows are assembled. There is a lot of sewing to do before this floor can be swept!! Hmm... avoiding housework by making quilts works in a few ways, doesn't it?

Pretty!

Just starting something else new. I hope it will come together almost as quickly as the Java quilt top!! Although, as I am designing this quilt to suit the fabric, I expect it will take a little longer.

It's just so pretty! ... from the fabric range "Penelope" by Lakehouse.