The last time I posted about F2F was back in January, when we pulled out all the stops to get Pat's blocks made and away to Sue in the US, so it could be made up, and hopefully give her a chance to see it and enjoy the comfort of it.....a big hug from all of us.....in her last days. Happily, thanks to everyone's great effort, and particularly
Sue who put all the blocks together into a beautiful quilt, and her son, who quilted it, Pat was able to see her quilt and enjoy having it close to her for a short while. Sadly, Pat passed away in early February, but her quilt remains as a legacy to her, and will now be used to raise funds for the Ovarian Cancer Society in the US.....a fitting tribute.
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The finished quilt - what a beauty |
Looking back, I realised I've not shown any of the blocks I've made for the other F2F'ers since
here last year. So in order from then .........
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| Susan - August |
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| Sue - September |
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| Lyn-October |
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| Avis -November |
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| Christine - December |
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| Pat -January |
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| Emmely - February |
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| Claire -March |
You can go to the gallery
here to see all the wonderful blocks that've been made, or
here to see Avis's completed quilt,
here to see Lyn's in progress (scroll down a bit) or
here to see how Sue's putting hers together.....beautifully creative work, ladies.
And so on to me.....April! I'm a bit in love with low volume quilts at the moment, so I chose soft, low volume mauves, and soft light grey or cream for the backgrounds. Here's my blocks so far.....it's been so exciting to open the packages and find these wonderful works of art.....I really appreciate the work that's gone into creating these lovely blocks for me. Five to come...I think...plus my own, which I'll make once I have all the others together.
Kate has already launched F2F2 and you can follow along at the dedicated
blog if you like, when it starts again in June. I had thought I'd join in again, then realised I had enough ongoing commitments already for the year, but I'm thinking I might sew alongside and make just my own blocks, I even have my colours picked out.....I'll see when June comes around.
As soon as I finish the son's quilt I'll be making
Kate's blocks, which will be grey, black and white with lime green....a lovely fresh palette. His quilt looked like this a few days ago, it's all sewn together now and has borders, if I don't get dragged away to buy paint or hunt down door handles, I'll be getting onto the quilting.
Till next time.....
Wow, epic post! What a lot of lovely stuff you've saved up to show us. I am really looking forward to seeing your quilt assembled, so I hope your outstanding squishies hurry up and arrive.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you'll be with us for F2F2 in spirit, and wonder if you'd feel like doing a guest post a couple of times, to show how you're getting on?
None of it's really news to you :) but it was good to get it all into a post in one place. I m sure I could be persuaded to do a guest post occassionally, that could be fun.
DeleteI really enjoyed working with your colours and look forward to seeing your lovely blocks all joined up!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to play with arrangements once they're all here.
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