Well, here we go. It looks like this year will also be racing by, must be my age, Ha! January has kept me busy. Awful, wintry weather hasn't stopped my shop from opening as normal, mostly because I can walk there but I did have to wear my good wellie boots. I didn't, and wouldn't have, driven the journey, way too much ice and snow for my safety! I find it a bit scary to be honest.
Anyhow, it's all gone now, we're back to grey gloom. Perfect for sewing it seems!
Before Sewing Prevention Season took a grip, there was quite a lot of secret sewing going on.
This is Jackie's version of the Boho Heart quilt by Jen Kingwell. Jackie was inspired by the design but, as you can see in the second photo, she designed exactly what she wanted on graph paper. Using many more intricately pieced blocks and lots of tiny, 3" units. Can you see she quiltied millions of hearts all over the quilt? Toot toot toot Jackie, a super, fabulous and finished in good time, gifting quilt.
What a clever (vegetarian) sausage Jackie is!
More secret sewing here. Christabelle sent this picture after gifting the quilt to it's new little owner. Fabulous bright colours for the little guy. Quilted with going faster air lines to make the cars look like they are racing. Toot toot toot for your fabulous, fast cars quilt Christabelle.
I'm hoping this quilt has been gifted by now. It's delivery got slightly postponed as Mother Nature sent an awful lurgy for the recipient so Gail had to hide from it! It could have been a cunning plan to give Gail a little more sewing time? No matter now. It's fabulous and finished
And a beautiful Batik fabric for the backing, showing off the quilting design. Toot toot toot Gail.
Rose was happy to have finished this piece. It will be the centre stripe on the backing. It's been a challenging make, working with the angles always is, but Rose persevered. Sandwich time soon!
Sandwich Saturday happened last Friday!
Lesley is so happy with her quilt. Bright and girly and made with lots of her own stash, it's just lovely. Now starts the job of quilting, this is Lesley's first quilt. It's a design from the book Material Obsession, it's quite an old book but is available as used copies, it's out of print now.
