Stitching News

Let's start with a fabulous and finished fanfare for New Sue...
This is a very quick quilt to make if you're ever needing on in a hurry.
It's a pattern for a Layer Cake but Sue used a pile of gifted to her fabrics
and cut her very own 10" squares...

This is the back of Sue's Hexagon quilt...
I wanted you to see her fabulous free-motion quilting. Toot Toot toot Sue,
Now here's the thing... This quilt is a keeper!
It's not being given away to anyone!! 

Giggly Gillian has her  lovely daisies stitched on to the pieced background. This cushion is going to have a zip in the back... so Gillian put it away until she can summon up the courage to purchase one of my zips...  No, that wasn't it at all... she wanted to finish her grand daughter's cuddle quilt first.

Toot toot toot.... Joan The Shop finished her Large Reversible Bag. The one she started at the workshop on Saturday, she only had about ten minutes more stitching to do... It's fabulous and finished and already full of bits and bobs

Fran Cup Cake is making a Hexagon quilt from a Moda Jelly Roll.
After sewing all the strips together, she cut them up again using her shiny new 60 degree triangle ruler... then sewed them all together again into half Hexagons... more progress as it happens. Fran want's to keep this project for working on is class.

Christabelle has designed another lovely quilt. Bears and honey pots... it's so very, very cute. This little quilt will be good for any colour of baby too as we don't know whether the new arrival will be pink or blue...
quite a cunning plan Christabelle!

Just Edna's Big One

Just Edna had a bit of a shock on Monday... She finished the piano key borders on her quilt top and trimmed them all perfectly in line... Happy lady.
She finished the large pieced backing, even happier lady... and then began to pack her project away... She tried to make a booking to come for a Sandwich Saturday... We have lots of our regular ladies away on their jolly holidays so... there was room for sandwiching TODAY... even for sandwiching a 2.80 metre square Log Cabin quilt!! Oh heck, thought Enda!

Poor Edna... she found she had her pins in her bag so there was no excuse to be found... we pushed the tables together and helped Edna make her giant sandwich... It's a good job I sell extra wide wadding... 3 metres wide in fact, that's 120" in old money. This quilt weighs about ten tons... poor Edna now has the job of quilting this beauty, she'll have muscles like Popeye when she's done! ha ha ha

Large Reversible Bag Workshop

Stitching News

It's not quite tooting time for Barbie, but she's almost there.
She was wearing her new glasses at Friday Quilt Club this week, the ones she requested especially for her stitching. Those silly glasses helped Barbie see lots of little leaves that had not been stitched around and a few petals that missed the blanket stitching... just as she thought she was on the home straight! Barbie wants it 'right' so she will be going over every flower wearing those new glasses... they work a little too well!

Yesterday, I showed you a picture of a quilt top that Jenny and I made with a Moda Layer Cake. Today I am showing you that I sat, with help from My Mum Gwynneth, and undid the whole thing. By Friday's end I had these blocks laid out... but this is not how I stitched them together...
more on this little project as it happens. Are you curious?

Skeleton Sandwich Anyone?

It was one of those days when lots of my regular Thursday ladies were not able to come, for one reason and another... including a broken hip, holidays, hospitalization, sitting on grand children and illness... a plethora of good excuses! So I took bookings for afternoon sandwiching... what a coincidence to get two skeleton quilts! Rose sandwiched her rather stunning Fund Raiser quilt too but I missed pictures of that...

Morning Judith's making her quilt for gifting to a sixteen year old fellow.
 She used guitar and music themed fabrics in the backing and borders.
I am sure he will love it.

PM Pam's Skeleton, also for gifting.
Pam found more skeleton fabric that glows in the dark for her backing.
We all popped into my loo with the lights off to have a good giggle about it
... easily amused eh! 

Morning Judith finished both of her wild life cushions with zips so...
lets give a fabulous and finished fanfare... toot toot toot.
The elephant design is an original by Christabelle,
who was happy to lend it to Judith...
 What a lovely and very generous lady.

After sandwiches, we chopped up a Moda Printemps Layer Cake 
Only so that Jenny could show me something interesting... 
We had a lovely afternoon stitching away!

New Sue's A Winner

Back in August of 2013, New Sue made and gifted this fabulous Jelly Roll sail boat quilt, to a special friend.

The special friend was so impressed with Sue's work that she entered it into a local craft show. New Sue won lots of stuff. A first prize with a winners' cup, a splendid rosette and a 'sustificate' of merit... Wow, Sue... What a winner!! Maybe, I'm presuming really... do you think those coins are the prize money? ha ha ha

Stitching New

Jeannette Dilly returned with even more stunning blocks made up. She's stitching on her very own, brand new, Juki HZL F600, a superb machine with a great 1/4" button... or foot... whichever is best for you. Dilly says her accuracy has improved A LOT, that makes her happy happy happy!

Monday Sheila wanted to add a little Ric-Rac to her project... she couldn't decide which colour she wanted... we have 11 to choose from... but if you can't decide which you want... you can buy them all, pay for ten and get the  eleventh one free... how generous am I?? ha ha ha... you'll save 40 pence

Susan is still on summer leave from work so was able to fit in another play date with us... look what she's been working on... cute-etty-cute. She makes lovely projects and does beautiful stitching. All of those lovely fabrics were purchased in my very own, quite lovely, little quilt shop.

Just Jan is making a Persian Rug quilt. It's her very own design, I've seen the doodles and crossings out on paper! She started with making up the centre in fabric... the rest will be planned as it is needed... first on paper then, of course in fabric... quite a talented lady it seems, we will see the progress as it happens.

PM Pam purchased this little pillow kit at the festival Of Quilts. 
Seems we all love a little kit! It was every so fast to make up. Longport Lynda already owns the Sizzix Die for these lovely little pussys so, no doubt we will be seeing more of them.

Quilts For Sale... There's a tab at the top of this blog with quilts we have for sale.
Mum makes them up to order in between making samples for my lovely shop.
This is an Eye Spy style quilt. We also sell the packs of 30 x 6" squares, the ones in the centre there.

This little kiddie quilt is made from a new panel we received recently
As well as this finished quilt, we're making up kits for you to purchase, they include backing and wadding so you can make your very own little kiddie quilt.

We have packs of these fabrics too. 30 x 6" squares... those you see in the centre there. They are all from one of Nancy Halvorsen's delicious collections. Mum made piano key borders this time but there are lots of other options... lots... and lots. Wait 'til you see what we put on the back!!

Stitching News

Sporty Sue added the final 2 borders to her delicious sampler quilt.
She's thoroughly enjoyed making the blocks and has learned a trick or two along the way. Sandwich time is fast approaching for Sue 

Auntie June was so excited when it came to her very first sandwich time, with her Railfence kiddy quilt... She was able to use her brand new walking foot on her very own, band new, Juki HZL 210 for the very first time too... every step of the way this lady got deeper and deeper, she's here now... on the dark side!!! welcome June!!! ha ha ha

This is a special quilt brought in by a customer needing wadding and backing fabric. Those beautiful floral blocks are all Cross Stitched... neat, neat, neat... my goodness they were! It is her first quilt and is being made to be gifted... lovely.

A toot toot toot now for Morning Judith. One cushion fabulous and finished, though here it is cushion-less. Judith enjoys making pictorial quilted doo-dahs. Doo-dahs... a word that  includes everything I think!
Patchwork and Quilting... not just for covering beds!

Merrily ran up this little peg bag up, lick-etty-split at home. Toot toot toot for the finish Merrily... beautiful and very neat stitching, pattern from a magazine, as you can see by the artistic staging for my photo! ha ha 

Kate used her Simon Henry workshop sample to make a most fabulous tote bag... what a brilliant idea!! I would never have thought of doing that, would you? I have a few samples tucked away somewhere... it might be time to go rooting!

I am so very behind with things, enjoying a weekend at the Festival of Quilts made all the jobs back up... those blooming fairies didn't come to do it Cathy!