Hello Everyone

Firstly my apologies for not posting last time, life not very kind to my health at the moment and also the car has been back in the garage, this time it needs a new head gasket. It’s three weeks now. Getting a bit expensive in the old taxi to work and back. As I suffer from motion sickness it prevents me from going on a bus. Any-hows, onto the important things in life.

A little bit of a change this time, I had to put aside my Temperature Quilt because I needed to purchase some more card inserts. I do re-use the cards several times but I find the ones with narrow points tend to crumble quickest. Instead I decided to push on with the Christmas Quilt. I had purchased some stencils and with my Frixion pen drew out some designs. One design was stars and swirls and the other was hearts and leaves. Hope you can see it on the quilt pictures below. Lots of twisting and turning of the whole quilt. I do not use a hoop just have it loose in my lap. The inspiration in this quilt was from a design in Todays Quilter magazine perhaps two or three years ago.

Hearts Stars

The rest of the quilt is just shadow hand stitches around the shapes, see centre image.

And this is an overview of the entire quilt

The backing fabric will be bought forward to the front to create a binding. Not traditional but I done my husbands quilt like that and it is surviving.

The backing fabric is sheet music images.

Well that is me for this week

Well that is me for this week, please visit the other members sites listed below.

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Kathy, Deb, Sharon, Margaret , and Daisy

Hi Everyone

I have managed a lot of sewing these past three weeks. The books and raven are complete, I love the raven so much and then I have started on some of the border design. It is very intricate in design and as you can see I have been breaking it down in chunks.

Here is an image of the complete lace border on the top, it’s going to be so nice to finish this now.

This is where I was last time …

This is my progress

Well that is me for now. Please take a peek at the other members as we all work on individual projects across a broad spectrum of sewing.

Bye

Daisy

Avis, Claire, Kathy, Margaret,

Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Daisy, Cathie,

Linda, MaryMargaret, Cindy, Helen, Sharon

Hi Everyone

I hope everyone is well and a warm welcome back to Sharon.

I have managed to allocate a large amount of sewing time to my Hallowe’en Project these past three weeks. I have stitched the clock, the last of the border outline (remember the border is an intricate lace pattern), and started on the books. That will leave the raven/crow design. I am not sure whether anyone else feels like this but I have a rushing feeling inside of me when I can see the finish line ( runners call it “second wind” I think), but I have managed to stave it off, don’t want to make any silly mistakes. It’s is quite hard though.

Well enough of my waffle here is where I was previously ….

Here is my progress …

Sorry about the tone of light. I changed the time on the clock to 5 minutes to midnight just for effect. (Originally it was stitched at twenty five past eight.)

This has been really good fun to stitch. If you are interested then it is by “The Steady Thread” and I believe she may create another Hallowe’en Project for this year. (not sponsored by this creator).

That is me done, please peruse the other members projects as we all work on something different.

Bye for now,

Daisy

Avis, Claire, Kathy, Margaret,

Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Daisy, Cathie,

Linda, MaryMargaret, Cindy, Helen, Sharon

Hi Everyone

I have managed quite a lot of stitching on both the projects that I have assigned to this sew a long. So this week is the Cotton Reel Temperature Quilt. January is all complete in that I have sewn all the days and then most are sewn into a longer strip. I have started on February and have the first two weeks completed. The days are actually prepped (see a previous post where I said that I had prepped a few months) ready to be sewn on an evening whilst watching TV.

Here is a photo of the first two weeks in January and February. (Sorry about the quality, light isn’t very goods as it is raining outside and is quite dark.

My head is telling me to separate the months with a strip to make the quilt easy on the eye, My heart is saying no leave it the way it is, the transitioning of the colours both across and down the quilt are enough. Which way should I go???

Does anyone have some ideas?

Well that is me for this week, Please take a peek at the other members projects.

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Kathy, Deb, Margaret and Daisy

Hi Everyone

In between celebrating I have managed a little bit of sewing on my Black work, two fun little bottles are now completed and next it is the large clock. Hopefully I am on schedule to finish this project in time for Hallowe’en ( All Hallows Eve). I thinks a concerted effort will suffice.

Here is where I was last time …..

Here is my progress

Well that is me for now, please peruse the other members as we all work on individual projects and skills.

Avis, Claire, Kathy, Margaret,

Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Daisy, Cathie,

Linda, MaryMargaret, Cindy, Helen

Hi Everyone

I have just celebrated in a quiet way a significant Birthday. Its was my 60th on Tuesday and whilst I was at work I received a gorgeous bunch of flowers (the pink bouquet in the photo below) with a lovely card. Work was busy but in an unusual way in that we are celebrating 150 years. We had the Dulux Dog (called Dorothy) to help us celebrate and a number of stalls set up for various brands to demonstrate their products.

I received some gorgeous presents, the yellow bouquet of flowers from my husband and he also bought me the Singer Sewing Machine Book Ends and the Sausage Dog set of tins (There are 2 of them inside the big tin), My mum bought me some material (not shown) and the Log Cabin Book, My Brother, the Scorpions T-Shirt and CD. What a co-incedence that they were celebrating 60 years of Rock. My Best friend bought me the cushion cover, a scarf and a 60th Birthday sash and a tiny box which is so charming as it is a herdy gerdy and plays You are my Sunshine. Small but perfectly charming.

I Love it.

I treated myself to the two wooden boxes and the Scrappy Quilt book from Laundry Basket Quilts. All in all a lovely Birthday. I didn’t need a large party just family and my best friend. Perfect!

I realise that I am blessed and fortunate to have such lovely items and am truly thankful.

Well that is all for now, tomorrow is posting day for the sewing group so must put some more stitches into my Hallowe’en project.

Bye for now

Daisy

Avis, Claire, Kathy, Margaret,

Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Daisy, Cathie,

Linda, MaryMargaret, Cindy, Helen

Hello Everyone

I have managed to sew quite a bit of my new Temperature Quilt but I am way behind still. Not daunted by this by the way as slow stitching is all about taking time. Time may go by quickly but when this quilt is DONE it will represent a moment in time forever (or as long as my stitching holds it together) !!!

Here is where I was last time, with all the component bits for February.

Here is my progress ….. the beginning of February’s days sewed together.

Well that is me this time, now please peruse the other members projects as we all sew something different and post every three weeks.

Bye

Daisy

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Kathy, Deb, Margaret and Daisy

Hello Everyone

So sorry for missing the deadline again. The car problem sort of took over our lives a bit. Hopefully it is sorted now – new radiator and new thermostat – much lighter in the pocket now .

However I manage a few stitches, just forgot to post.

Here is where I was last time

Here is my progress. I’m not too happy with the hoop but its staying.

Anyhows that is me for now, once again apologies for being late.

Daisy

Please peruse the other members projects. We all work on different projects with different techniques and offer each other encouragement.

Bye

Avis, Claire, Kathy, Margaret,

Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Daisy, Cathie,

Linda, MaryMargaret, Cindy, Helen

Hi Everyone

After getting some health problems sorted the car has been giving us a major headache and it is still ongoing. It is this that has prevented any amount of sewing. However I endeavoured to do something so after tidying the sewing area of my room I cut out loads of half hexagons ready for the end of February and the month of March and picked the fabrics so no clashes occurred. When I say clashes I mean no two identical fabrics are next to one another. It gets harder the more it advances.

Here is a photo, so I suppose some progress.

Hopefully next month I will have some proper progress on my projects. I am working on two projects (trying to get back on track with my schedule. Ha!)

See you next time

Daisy

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Kathy, Deb, Karrin, Margaret and Daisy

Hi Everyone

Well we have had a busy week with non sewing things going on ie the car keeps showing overheating, garage can not find the problem, very frustrating. Also it is my younger brother’s birthday tomorrow and he walked to ours to collect his present and have a natter. Very nice to see him.

Now onto the sewing, I have been quite industrious with my blackwork. I have sewn some more border outline and nearly finished the ghost or ghoulie in the hoop. Another complicated looking stitch.

Here is where I was last time

This is my progress ..

Well that is all from me so why not take a look at the other projects that our members are working on. We all work on individual projects and skills and post every three weeks.

Bye for now

Daisy

Avis, Claire, Kathy, Margaret,

Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Daisy, Cathie,

Linda, MaryMargaret, Cindy, Helen