Stitching News

The pesky P is back. No-one knew where it disappeared to or why it wouldn't work. Eventually, I could type nothing but the pesky P, which was a bit weird. It was typing it's very own self in all the searching things. Spooky!!
We've had a busy couple of weeks in the classroom and shop, yes it is an excuse!

Christabelle sent this photo of her finished Stack-n-Whack Kaleidoscope quilt, complete with the wonderful, Faux Pipped Binding. There's a lot of extra fussy cutting in this quilt, all the little squares are identical on each block. The borders are all the same too, an excellent job.

This is a picture taken in my shop, obviously. You can see the quilting while it was in progress, lots of free motion. The lovely blue Moda Grunge background is a better colour in this photo and those orange-y bits, wow, do they pop.Toot toot toot Christabelle, an absolutely fabulous and finished quilt, already gifted and loved.

Gail has just a few more stitches of quilting to be done on this lovely baby gifting quilt. We won't see it again though as it's going to it's tiny, little new owner before we see Gail again. It's very cute, fabulous and aaaaaalmost finished, so we can raise the trumpets a little early, Toot toot toot.

This is Jackie's first large quilt. Almost all of the fabrics are from a few of Moda's French General collections. She learned a lot of top tips while making the quilt with all of it's Hour Glass blocks. Toot toot toot Jackie, a fabulous and finished, rather scrumptious quilt. The next project will be even larger. It's safe to say, Jackie fell, hook, line and sinker over to our dark side, where there's always a warm welcome!

Preparations are going well with the folk who are joining us on the retreat in March. Some, those who live a little closer to my emporium, have been popping in to buy essentials, very exciting.

I made a final decision on my retreat project, which is hilarious because I made that decision three more times. Yes. I'm taking 4 projects!!! I'll never learn.

It's not to late to join us for 4 wonderful days of stitchiness!

A reminder, with no apology!

Plus, My shop doesn't open on Mondays.

Stitching News

I've got demons in my computer. I'm doing my best to manage it/them, I have Hp people on to it but now my " p " key doesn't work , for goodness sake, it's driving me NUTS!
I have a lot of ictures to share with you too, ha ha ha! well, it made me laugh! Here goes:-

At home, Christabelle it quilting her fabulous Stack-n-Whack Kaleidoscope quilt. It's a rather large quilt so, in class, she's piecing these very cute Tilda ladies, for the Dreamer Quilt, a free download from Tildas World  it has lots and lots of tiny little bits of fabric to be cut for each one. Look at the hair HST's, teeny!! 

Gail has her faux piped binding stitched and finished already on her baby gifting quilt, so she's just adding a bit more quilting around the applique shapes. There's a lot of thread colour changing involved.

Our Pam brought in her Churn Baby Churn quilt project. She needed a little help understanding the layout as she's made lots of different sized Churn Dash blocks, pleasing her very own self! They will work, just a few little fudging mathemisms will be needed. It makes such a fabulous photo with mine on the wall there in the background, don't you think?

Shirley has finished quilting this lap sized quilt, and very pleased with it she is too with a very snazzy and rather beautiful Batik backing. We spent a while searching for a good binding fabric, with success. Shirley had the binding fabric already, but she's given up the search, it's disappeared. It will turn up now she chose another, it always does. 

Jan was able to make her lovely, Autumnal coloured, Lap Quilt sandwich. Most of these fabrics were left over from other projects so this really is a bonus quilt. Smaller quilt sandwiches can sometimes be made in class, larger ones need a sandwich Saturday, on a Friday! 

This Llama quilt is a larger one, so a sandwich Saturday, on Friday was planned. Cheryl Cheryl arrived bright and early to pin it all as I had most of the day with the tables booked. All sizes are catered for in my very own classroom.

Our Pam was next. This is one of three baby gifting quilts she's making (actually four now!) This design is a pretty simple one for quilting, at least it could be. I think Pam is going to stitch around all those letters though. It will look lovely.

Sarah was delighted to be making this sandwich. She is already deep in the throws of planning her next project, a large one! so she want's this one quilted, done and dusted, lick-etty-split.

Merlot is ready for our trumpets to be used. A fabulous and finished, foundation paper pieced, Animal quilt, and how blooming cute is it!!! I love it, those googly eyes are rather splendid. Toot toot toot toot-etty-toooooot  I placed the book there, just in case you might be tempted?

A closer view, this book is in stock on my inspiring bookshelves, in my wonderful quilt shop. They are all Foundation paper piecing patterns, if that's your thing you will love it. If it's a new to you technique, I could help you get started?

I can't remember who asked me about the Best press ironing spray when I had run out. I just want you to know it's back in stock, lots of flavours!

We will be closing the list for our March 3rd -6th sewing retreat very soon, Wednesday I think. If you found your very own self tempted and wanting to go, you'd better get a wiggle on.

Checkley Sunday Sewday is coming up too, 23rd February, a bit more wiggling is needed for that list too.

I ho*e I haven't missed too many p 's? I've had to co*y and *aste every one!

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!