Before this, however, I did manage to get the May and June blocks done for the Harmony Quilt. July is up now so I need to tackle that and then I will really be ahead!!! Wow! What a feeling!
Here are the "windclouds": (they are supposed to be windmills, but I thought they were clouds..)
They are very light, but when I put them with the other blocks they do look good, and when you are looking at them in real life instead of a dark photo, they look better :)After the windclouds I did the falling leaves:
I wanted to clear some floor space and lay all the blocks out, but haven't quite managed to do that. I will sew the tulips (next blocks) and then try to find a sunny spot to take a photo of them all.In the madness of life, I also decided to play a little.....
I started a disappearing nine patch.
From this:
To this:
I bought the blue floral fabric with Tracy on our camping weekend back in March. It was $5 a meter and I bought two meters knowing I'd find something to do with it :) The other fabric was from the souk (I bought a bolt!) and matches perfectly. So, frugal as well as fun :)AND I started on a quilt for Cameron... I shouldn't have started something else new, I know, but poor guy, he pays for all this fabric and I haven't made him one single quilt.....
So, I dragged out some "guy" fabric from Evelyn (my wonderful quilting teacher and friend in Riyadh), and made a start..... Since I hate checks and stripes because I can never get them straight, I decided to do a crazy patchwork and started with a stack and whack or stack and slash or whatever you call it. And I also made a few spider web blocks:
It is a start anyway. Notice with the spiderweb blocks - they DO NOT MATCH... hrmph. I tried unpicking, but it still didn't work, so I came up with a cunning plan to fix it later on.... you will have to wait and see :)
And so, that is all my sewing news.... back to school and housework now....
4 comments:
Okay, you are amazing! How in the world do you find time to do this. I guess I could do it at ngiht after the kids are in bed, but I that is my time to fall asleep on the couch! :)
That disappearing nine-patch is amazing! I absolutely love that. Something to tuck into the back of my mind for another project!
At last, some more news Joy - I have been checking in regularly so you have to update your fan club more regularly! My favourite is your man quilt and in particular the spider web blocks - the stripes don't need to match do they? I booked into a class to do a David's Crown quilt and I plan to take a real step out by using very funky bright fabrics - It will most likely end up on Caitlin's bed....another.Yvonne
Wendy - I'm not really sure where I find the time either... I just play a little sometimes when they are doing school or on those days when we unschool :)
Tracy, yes, I thought the disappearing nine patch was so cool when I saw it! It looks hard, but is really easy and effective.
Yvonne, sorry to take so long in updating :) I shall try harder to post more often! The stripes in the spider web don't have to match, but it would be nice if the white bits did... I shall fix that, you'll see :)
Happy Mother's Day ladies!!!!
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