Sunday night

She looks like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth but.......

this little darling can create a lot of havoc.  She was leading the dog on a merry chase through the house, leaping off chairs, over cupboards, and across tabletops when in her mad dash, she knocked my camera to the floor, the lense popped out and is now jammed.  This is the second time it's hit the ground with a thud in recent days, so it might not recover......fingers crossed it'll be ok.  But until I can get it seen to, there'll be no linking with pictures to Peg of my OPAM finish for February, or Anthea for Piece Yourself Together to show my few hexies I made (first hexies!), or Angela for Scraphappy Saturday with my pink blocks, as all those pictures are on the camera still.

I put the borders on Walter's quilt last week sometime, and I've since sandwiched and basted it, and most of the quilting is now done. I'm pleased with it this far. The colours are not quite true, the yellow is not as bright as this.  I'm still deciding on binding, maybe a blue....any suggestions?

Time to do a bit more quilting before bed......

'til next time

Scrappy Saturday

.......linking up with So Scrappy at http://superscrappy.blogspot.com.au/

In the RSC15 a few people are making wonky star blocks.  I thought, no, not for me.....until I saw Jo's finished rainbow quilt here ( scroll down a bit to see her quilt, it's beautiful) and immediately decided I wanted one too.  So that was what I did today........prepared my squares and stitched up a blue wonky star, first block for my own rainbow.  It's 17 and a half inches finished, nice and big and quick to sew.  I used Flutter.Kat's tutorial here.

I stitched a couple more rows of Walter's quilt  but no photos, that's a bit boring.  The rest of the day I spent in the garden, after two days of very heavy rain we had sunshine, so it was a perfect opportunity to get the weeds out and the lawn mown before it all grows another foot or two.  No pictures of that either, weeds are boring too.

That's all tonight, my next post will be on the Grow Your Own Blog party at 2 Bags Full.

'til then...........

More scrappy blues

too hot to do much sewing, but enough to feel I've accomplished something........

Week 3, more wonky log cabins, linking up again with RSC15  (rainbow scrap challenge 2015) with 6 new blocks.Making these is a bit like eating potato chips, it's hard to stop at just one.  I'm running out of ' 'just blue' blue scraps though and have used some pale and dark blues to finish off blocks.  I have a plan for next week to start some blocks in the aqua shades to begin a quilt for a friend's birthday.

All 14 blocks, hey that's quite a start!

And what to do with all the teeny pieces trimmed off the edges and left over threads.....or orts as I've seen them called, which just means scraps......pile them on some wash-away( solvy) and make some more fabric of course!

Scraps on wash-away

            after being stitched in a net or grid pattern

after washing

close-up of 'new' fabric

This forms a pliable but firm 'fabric' that can be used for embellishment, or cut up to make shapes. I'm going to use it to make a gift for a friend's birthday next week, have a few ideas about what to make with it, there'll be stitching and beads for sure.

..........and an update on Walter's quilt......coming along nicely 

 blocks sewn into fours, and one long strip sewn 

I'm going to need to add borders or it won't be wide enough so I followed Kate's example and have been auditioning fabrics.  I think this brick red works well for a first border, but as I don't have very much of it, there'll be a trip to the fabric store very soon.  Not sure about the second border, something blue I think, but I'll wait and see until the red is on.

Molly!  too hot to snuggle close thank-you

'til next time.....