New Project ( X3)

 This was to be another year of getting UFO's finished but I have given in to temptation and am starting three new quilts! Oh dear!!

Ingrid came across this book and decided this would be a good sew along project, so we are sewing will Jill here in St Leonards and Fiona of  BubzRugz fame. Ingrid and I started this week, Jill has one block made and Fiona is awaiting the pattern book I think, no doubt we will all sew along at our own pace.

These are out of order, but not to worry, this is # 4

 this was #3 block

# 1 & 2

blocks 5 & 6

Block 6 remade to try and get the centre a little better.

These blocks finish at 4 inches and there are 72 of them plus a centre applique block.

Last January (I think) Ingrid and I had a look at these patterns and decided 2021 was the year to make this quilt, so this goes onto the to do list as well!

Then I was looking thru this book yesterday and decided to make the quilt with half square triangles, maybe this weekend, we will see!

These are some of the gifts I gave Ingrid this Christmas, we did our swap last weekend so I can show now! I saw this Halloween wall hanging on Instagram so copied it and made it for Ingrid, it will hang on the front door next Halloween.

I also made a table topper, I found a template so tried it out, Ingrid then wanted to try it out and made

It is now quilted and has a centre, I didn't take another photo of the near finished project, it just needs binding now.

I also made a little hanger using Barb Smith buttons, here is Ingrid off to the Quilt store!

Ingrid gave me lots of beautiful presents

Ready covered hexies, wooden stamps, a beautiful pincushion, a zipper pouch, stickers and tin

oops blogger has turned this around, a mug with balls of wool on it, a purple pumpkin (I need to make a stalk and some leaves for it) and a planner to organise all my projects!! It has lots of helpful hints, I need to start reading!

a beautiful stack of fabric to use in the Schoolgirl Sampler

a wallhanging showing Ingrid's love of small blocks!

A wall hanging showing my love of batiks!

And a Tomte wall hanging, how cute is that!! The quilting even has Tomte's in it! I can't put this one away yet!

I went out into the garden after lunch to dig up some spreading plants that hubby wanted to cut back, job done I noticed he had pruned a tree and left the prunings on the ground, quite normal around here, so I thought I would help and gathered up a wheel barrow load, then went back for a second. This tree has the end of a dead branch that sticks out at about head height...you can guess what I did!! I said to myself many times watch that branch and of course walked straight into it, I am not a happy camper! Needless to say the rest of the prunings are still where they landed and I have not emptied the wheelbarrow!! I have a fat eye lid and cheek bone! I think that end of branch has to come off - that will go onto the to do list.

I am off to have a cold drink and to eat some potato chips!!

Happy stitching.