Sandwich Saturday

On a Saturday!!! Just like the old days, sandwiching on an actual Saturday!
All four of these sandwiched (on a Saturday) quilts belong to Merlot. She's on a mission to catch up with all of her ongoing quilt tops, while trying to keep up with the baby gifting quilts, which she is producing at quite a speedy rate trying to keep up with Mother Nature!

This one made a long time ago using a William Morris Layer Cake. 

So long ago that Louise barely remembers making it.

This is the same design Louise has made a few times, this is the medium size. Previously she made the large size using photos printed on fabric. In my last post there was a picture of the smallest size made with left overs from this one.

Very colourful scrappy design. No further info at the moment as

I didn't get chance to ask about this one.

Using just two fabrics! How lovely this looks. 

This quilt needs to be finished Lick-etty-Split. 

It's special gifting day is looming! 

Stitching News

Hello! I think things will settle down for a while now. More sewing retreats are booked but, for a short while, my shop will be open for normal days and hours. The classroom is busy and projects are coming together very nicely

Merlot has been very productive making baby sized quilts. This is a design she has made before but this time with lots of little fussy cut squares. It's sandwiched and ready for quilting. Nothing too dense as Merlot wants a lovely soft quilt.

Mrs. Lou Lou is so happy to have finished all of her quilting on this huge quilt. The binding is on and just needs to be hand stitched over to the back, not her favourite job, which she might just have mentioned once or ten times! It's almost ready for a toot toot toot fanfare. The pattern is by Elizabeth Hartman, no surprise there.

With trumpets up, This quilt is fabulous and finished! 

Toot toot toot for Christabelle. She was able to dedicate a chunk of her sewing retreat time to the quilting while chatting away with the like minded lot of us! This lovely Winnie The Pooh Quilt will be gifted to a tiny person very soon.

Another Elizabeth Hartman pattern made by Merlot. She's actually made many of her designs and enjoys all the intricate piecing. It's a very lovely gifting project and the dinosaurs look very friendly in all the bright colours. 

My I Spy Pre-Cut Six Packs are just the ticket when a gifting quilt is needed with very little time to spare. The pink sashing Louise chose for this one gives a small clue to the colour of the baby! A pink one! Just the binding needed now.

This is one of my retreat projects. The centre was appliqued during my February retreat by the sea, the stars were stitched in Shrewsbury! It's going to be a well traveled wall hanging!

Stitching News

I'm back from another sewing retreat and getting ready for 'back to normal' day tomorrow. I found photos from before my shop closed for the holiday, here goes.

Gail had been stitching more and more daizies, so we laid them out to get a good mix up of the fabrics. This is just the main centre of the quilt. There will be hundreds more daizies around the borders. It's possible I might have exaggerated but Gail feels like is will be hundreds!

Josie used an apron pattern from an Art To Heart book to make this cushion. A very happy cushion and perfect for this time of year. Toot toot toot Josie, a fabulous and finished happy cushion.

Josie's wall hanging. She purchased a kit online which included the Liberty fabrics, which she loves to work with. Next time we see this project it will be finished and ready for tooting. At least that's what she declared at the end of her last class.

Christabelle came to make her Pooh sandwich. The plan was to get it quilted during our retreat. I can confirm that she succeeded! I saw it with my very own retreat eyes!

This sandwich belongs to Sarah. 

She said it's her favourite quilt design so far. 

I'm sure she says that about all of them, ha ha ha

Lorna is enjoying stitching again. She had lost her sewjo for a while but she's definitely finding it now. This top was made using a William Morris Layer Cake purchased many years ago. Now it's sandwiched and ready, it will be quilted.

This it a tooting moment. Lorna only made the sandwich a couple of weeks ago and here it is finished! She is very pleased with it, and rightly so.

You can see very well all of the quilting from the back. Flight lines and big birds. Fabulous, and finished! Toot toot toot Lorna.

And a complementary cushion with the one that got away. 

You have to love a matching cushion don't you!

We can all start planning for the October sewing retreat now. It seems ages away, but you know how time flies!!! 
The October retreat is fully booked at the moment. This is great news. I have a waiting list of eager stitchers and should you want to be added to that list, just let me know.

There will be another Merry Quiltmas Sewing retreat over Sewing Prevention Season. 24th - 27th December. I know I have mentioned it before, and I will mention it again!!!

Last but not least. Our annual pilgrimage to The Festival Of Quilts.
I've now started to collect your payments for the trip. It's £40.00 per person which includes your show entrance ticket. You can pay by cash or by bank transfer, just email me and I can send you the details.

Enjoy your day folks x