Yesterday felt productive even though I don't have much to show you today. I worked on my Folk Art Sampler blocks and made good progress. More on that on Wednesday. I even made the effort to fix the rabbit's eye.
Monday, March 18, 2024
Monday makes
Friday, March 15, 2024
Friday finish - dancer
Dancer by Barbara Ana from Creative Poppy was my project to complete for February for my Guild's UFO challenge. I completed the stitching and in a rush to take a photograph I used a spray to help eliminate the folds in the linen. BIG MISTAKE!! Of course, this is a hand dyed linen and is not necessarily colour fast which resulted in a water mark on the right hand side of the piece.
I have now added a piece of lace to the piece to cover the stain and framed the piece. The frame was purchased from a charity shop and painted with blackboard paint by my husband.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
WIP Wednesday - folk art flowers
It doesn't look very impressive so far, but I have completed four weeks of the ten released so far. Can I catch up by the end of the month? Or will I get tired of cutting out such fiddly blocks!
Monday, March 11, 2024
Monday make - folk sampler leaves
Friday, March 08, 2024
Friday finish - Summer basket
I bought this pattern and the baskets for the other three seasons in a destash. I had taken out my Halloween Terrarium to work on but there's unpicking to be done, so it soon went back in its bag. I thought one of these would be a quick and easy stitch. I used floss from my stash and replaced the light red with a pink and went for turquoise flosses rather than the greener aqua flosses suggested.
I watched the video of how to finish the pillows on Youtube and they are bigger than I expected. With my patchwork experience, they should be quick to finish - famous last words. I have pieced and quilted the cushion front so far. The turquoise fabrics are by Alison Glass and the red is by Libs Elliott.
I plan to finish this cushion and the Dancer by Barbara Ana over the next week. I now need to focus on my Challenge UFO for March which is the Halloween Terrarium by Tiny Modernist.
Wednesday, March 06, 2024
WIP Wednesday - new start
I love a good sewalong and I also love foundation piecing so this latest charitable project by @happysewlucky caught my attention. I have always loved a good stripe too. I am planning to do a 1 to 1 swap with UK quilty friends rather than join in with the official swap.
I made a test block yesterday and was so annoyed with myself with the mistake in the black and white stripe. This is option B in the pattern, and you cut squares on point which I found very wasteful of the fabric. I will be repeating this B block for a friend but planning to sew the A block to swap as it uses straight cut squares.
Monday, March 04, 2024
Jersey Eisteddfod