Stitching News

Just a brief catch up. Lot's of projects are being made. New ones started too. My classroom is a hive of quilt making activity, and chatter!

Farmer Lynda is ready for one of our toot toot toot fanfares for her fabulous and finished Birchenbower Trees quilt. Hours and hours of quilting have kept Lynda very busy for quite a while so she's super chuffed to be able to use her new quilt.

Rose came to make a dinosaur sandwich. This is another of Elizabeth Hartman's patterns but Rose did a bit of PMS (pleasing My Self) and added the colourful borders around each dinosaur, looks great doesn't it.

This is Sarah's work. She has embroidered all the main pictures, ever so neatly. They were all on a pre-printed panel and once they were all stitched, Sarah cut out the blocks and framed them. It's not large enough yet so,

Flying Geese units will be used in the border. 40 were needed in total here they are all trimmed up, they will be sewn together with some appliqued paws. Intriguing eh.

Judy's making a set of table place mats for gifting to a special friend. They will all be identical to this one. Judy's mind is elsewhere, as she's had to put her triangle project on one side to make these mats. 

Jackie was just packing up at the end of her day when I ran into the classroom bit declaring that I needed pictures! The ladies pack up so efficiently and My poor blog is so neglected of late. So Jackie obliged, held her quilt up for a quick piccy, this is a quarter, obviously! Lovely, rich reds.

Sue needed to get this baby play mat finished rather Lick-etty-Split so she was delighted to see enough table space to be able to make her sandwich. No sooner had the last pin gone in, her Juki was set up and lot's of quilting was done. This was made using an Eye Spy Six Pack.

Cheryl came to choose a perfect backing fabric for this splendid quilt. Elizabeth Hartman strikes again. Her patterns are very popular with my customers. Cheryl will be making a Llama sandwich next week. It's a huge quilt and will, hopefully, be finished in time for gifting to a special couple.

We enjoyed a busy and fun Checkley Sunday Sewday last weekend. It was lovely that it was still light when it was time to go home too. Birds are chirping high in the trees, spring is just around the corner, it's a lovely feeling isn't it. 

The next Checkley Sewday is on Sunday 23rd February. I have a good list of people planning to go. It's the last one for a few months, until June, which feels, and is, a long way off.

4 weeks from today we will be on our first sewing retreat of the year.

Plans need to be made, now-ish! These decisions never get any easier do they!