Friday Fun Day

Hello my fellow stitchery friends,

I have been busy beavering away at all my existing projects, and some unexpected new ones. I like to juggle things. So one of the projects that I have started is my Birds of a Feather Quilt – another Gail Pan Design, and I have prepared the pieces and have two blocks made which are 5 1/4″ finished size. My plan is to have one columns of pieced blocks either side of the panel which I am busy quilting at the moment. (Hopefully the measurements are correct.) Then I will frame it with two borders – so hope it turns out quickly. My idea is to use a feather stencil over the borders, and maybe just shadow stitch in the pieced blocks.

Here are the pieced blocks and panel design –

and the stencil (free with Today’s Quilter magazine)

The 2 smaller pictures are from Today’s Quilter issue 110

You may have read on another blog that I have finished the top part of my Memory Quilt and have fixed the wording I wanted in the border and making the pieced binding material. This is now joining my ever increasing pile of quilts needing quilting. With the left overs I practised another block design which I had learned online from Kate of “The Last Homely House” on her YouTube channel. She is really lovely and charming, explains how to do things and laughs a lot. This was the resulting pattern, it may not be perfect but it is a scrappy quilt. I was chuffed with my effort. They will be 3″ blocks when completed in between the two zigzag lines top and bottom.

Feeling confident I have made two more quilts using the block mentioned above, but in two different ways. It was fun to play around with the blocks and I wanted them to be deliberately different. They are hand machined on my old Singer Hand Cranked sewing machine. It runs like a dream, I love it so much!