A Sewing Day

Last Friday my friend Yvonne came for the day to sew :) I managed to get the binding done on Daniel's quilt! Yay!


I did it on the machine with a herringbone stitch. I thought it would be quicker, but in the end it turned out to be very fiddly. Over the past few days I tied the rest of the quilt, and now it is done :


I also worked on my disappearing nine patch quilt and did 10 nine patches. I still need to make them disappear...


When I got my ironing board out to use for the day, it got caught on something sharp and ripped:



It really need replacing a long time ago, but I've been putting it off - one of those fiddly jobs that takes me away from my quilting! When it ripped I decided I'd better make a new one right away. I used the binding and string from the old one (unpicked it) and then sewed it to the new fabric:



So two projects done for the July already!! Yay! Now I need to work on some boms... especially stitcheries, I am getting behind on them.

While I worked on the above projects, Yvonne was busy with this most gorgeous quilt:



It's called Snowflake Medallion, and it's from a class at Ballarat Patchwork. I am very tempted to take the same class one day if they offer it again. I haven't done real applique, so it would be good for me. Here are some close ups:





Isn't it just beautiful?!

Well, that's all folks. Better get back to school :)