2 finishes

These have both been done for a while so last night, when I should have been making dinner, I dragged them outside for a little photo shoot fun.

Up first is the diamond pinwheel quilt, pattern by that girl that quilt.  The pattern should be available soon.  I'll email Jennifer and find out when.  I quilted this using Angela Walters' hooked feather design from her book and it was love!

Next is my Swoon.  Started back in October and finally done.  Good grief!  I don't normally quilt using pantographs (a paper pattern that you trace using the laser pointer on your longarm) but they're fun to do ever so often and I was really stuck with how to quilt this.  So,  blooming feather by Anne Bright.  Looking back I should have done something less fussy.  Whatever.

I was just putting the quilts away when Bea came along and walked across the Swoon.  I would have been mad except it really was at the perfect spot!

happy weekend,
c

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oh, there's been some sewing

It kills me when people say "oh, I'm working on this but I can't show you, it's a secret."  Dude, come on!  Who could be more important than me and my desire to see your stuffs?  Ok, by me, make that all of us in blogyville.  So....

Yo, I'm working on stuff and it's secret.  Unhuh, you know it.

Okay, really.  Two sewey fests, July and August.  People were crazy enough to ask me to join in.  Don't they know half my stuff is held together with spit and dog hair and I've never turned a paper in on time, ever?  So because I can't show or tell for a bit, some sneaky peakies.  The shot above, with all that purple and brown, the scariest colours in the world, is for Sew Festive Handmade's Christmas in July.  My post will be landing on the 9th - and yeah, it's all about the purple and brown and making you love it, too.

And this little chocolate box is a stack of Winterkist from the so awesome it's hard not to swear when mentioning her Monica (via the equally hard not to swear about Katie).  Monica is so cool her guild has a semi-naked guy employed by the guild solely to hold up quilts for show and tell.  I mean, come on!  Anyways, Katie's doing a Winterkist sewey fest in August and I'll be stitching up something for that, too.  Woot!

Finally, something else you can't see all of, mostly because it's too windy to take a photo outside.  I have quilted my Swoon.  Woohoo!  Hopefully this weekend I'll manage to get that magic combo of no rain + no wind + extra hands and take some better pics!

xox,
c

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Oh, yeah

I'm wrestling with a massive headache today but I still managed a little sewing and a silly photoshoot.

I kind of love the chair in this photo.  Because I  love those chairs and because I just think it's too funny that I have to pull a chair out from the kitchen to use the clothesline.  Oh, and if you peek behind the quilt top (so, yes, it's a finished top, not a real finish) you can see the forest our house is plonked in.

happy hallowe'en
c

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No sewing for you

That seems to be today's motto.  I kept trying, stuff kept intervening.  But...

Yesterday I sewed 2 more swoon blocks and cut a third, which, when that third one is sewn, will mean they are all done!   And I also decided that I'm not going to make this into a king (I was planning on wider sashing and a border, not extra blocks.  I'm not that crazy), it's going to be a queen and live on the spare bed.  Or get dragged around from couch to couch.  So there.

Oh, and that Aneela Hoey dog fabric?  I loved it so much I bought a whole shwack with the intention of making a skirt.  Ok, of losing 20 then making a skirt.  Now I could just make a belt, not one of those skirts your dad would call a belt, an actual belt.  I hope her new fox print comes in grey.  Maybe that will be my skirt.

Have a lovely weekend all,
c

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Weekend Sewing

This was such a great weekend of hanging around the house, getting lots done.  We did some gardening, resulting in what I like to call the Christmas Massacre.  Jamie and I pulled out about 100 evergreen saplings, all in a strip measuring about 1' by 5".  I'm not a big fan of pulling out trees, but these were all really close to the house and so crowded that none of them were ever going to make it.  I was filthy and sore, but it smelled like Christmas!

So, some work happened on the 2x wedding ring.  I'm shocked how much I'm loving working on this.  I'm sick of the palette, but it's such a challenging/rewarding pattern that comes together really quickly, so the reward is pretty great on this one.

And another Swoon block!  I think I've picked the fabrics for all of these, but I have some yardage from Ruby coming from Pink Castle Fabrics so that may change things a bit.  I'm really hoping I can get all the blocks done by the end of the month.  We'll see.

And I'm making headway on my embroidery bee blocks.  These have to be done by the end of the month!  Stitch, stitch, stitch!

adios yo,
c

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