Bleh

I'm feeling bogged down by all my unfinished quilts stashed around here, so I have decided its finally time to keep my little fingers away from new fabric (which can be very hard as I work in a fabric store) and to start finishing some things!

So, today I cut and sewed my binding together, using this wonderful tutorial to match all my stripes ( I was on the right track so when I saw this tutorial it was like a lightning bolt!) Then decided to do things out of order, I attached the binding THEN decided that it needed more quilting so then I did all the extra quilting on it!

So now it just patiently waits for some nibbler than mine hands to sew the binding down (nudge nudge Mum!)
(These are bad photo's too by the way. Its getting late, I'm very tired and blogger stuffed up the first time I tried to post this!)

Quilting Day 1

I have to have the basic quilting completed on this by Monday night. hmm...

Step 1

Baste. This Dresden plate will be 3 inches across when finished.

166

459 to go.

Gee's Bend

This book was totally worth the $95, and the probability of eating baked beans on toast for lunch and dinner for a few days next week...

Honestly, after going through the book it made me really disappointing about the quilts at the Quilt Indulgence Festival. The flyer I received three months ago had three quilts on it I REALLY wanted to see, and those three quilts were not here! However the other international quilts at the show more than made up for the Gee's Bend let down. I now need to work out if I can afford a subscription to Patchwork Quilt tsushin (which is no. Its 11 800 YEN a year, for six issues a year. Thats $31 AUS a magazine.)

To Appease Mother

My internet exile has ended! Firstly, these are two of my quilts hanging at a local quilt show, in a shops stand. Mine is the pink and black one, and the one to the right of it (which is just a quilt top, I'm picking it up on Monday, buying wadding and a backing fabric and working frantically to get it quilted in time for the next quilt show in a weeks time)

Here are a couple more civil war blocks and one in progress.


This one above is actually made incorrectly. As I was working off a black and white photocopy I didn't realise that the colours are reversed in the opposite corners! However it looks so good I don't think I have the heart to unpick it and throw two blocks away and make two more!



And then there is a new hand sewing project (like I needed another one). Its going to be a yo yo quilt!

I'm slowly moving through my stash cutting two squares of each fabric to make two yo yo's out of each fabric. I started on the scrap pile, then moved onto the spots, which is why if you look closely about 80% of them are spotty. I have 83 made, have the fabric cut for another 43, and to make a 25 x 25 quilt, will need 625 yo yo's! But remember, so far I have only cut the scrap pile and spots drawer, if I end up cutting 2 from all of my fabrics then it might end up being a wee bit bigger than that...
When I get to about 300 I will start whip stitching them together. I am waiting for a friend to produce her antique yo yo quilt (and in her fashion she said "oh I don't know where they are, I'll have to find them") so I can get a look at how they did it. I know its just whip stitching but I still want to see someone elses first!

Next post I might show you my 3 inch across dresden plate, but I need to find it first!

Also, I need to make this quilt.