A finish and happy smile

This afternoon I sat back at the machine and finished the New York Trellis quilt top

Tomorrow I will trim off the spare triangle bits, my challenge will be to get it straight!!

I am also joining up with Anthea over at Hibiscus stitches where we are sharing all things EPP. 

My little contribution this time.

Happy stitching.

Feeling good

Last week I cut some fabric ready to make a quilt top when I was on retreat, as that didn't happen I decided to start on it today. The pattern was in the last Down Under Quilts magazine, it  is called New York Trellis.  I thought I would use fabric from my stash, so have used different colours. I started just before lunch

and laid the pieces out on the carpet, only to find the 6th row didn't fit! After much head scratching I realised I had cut all the longer pieces half an inch longer than I should have, so some unsewing happened, followed by some trimming, and then more sewing

and now I have this, the colours could have been better balanced but on the whole I am happy with it.

The Supervisor gave it a glance and went back to sleep!! Now I need to iron all the rows and begin joining.

We had a walk down to the beach this morning and on our way watched two dogs running into the water chasing a ball, we watched, a Chow is far to dignified to chase a ball!!!

the weather was slightly different today to yesterday.

We have a large group of New Holland Honey Eaters in our yard and morning and evening they are all out playing and talking, for little birds they are very loud!

I borrowed a photo from Mr Google.

I have a date with the iron!

Happy sewing.