Showing posts with label Modern Whimsy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Modern Whimsy. Show all posts

Wednesday, 17 April 2013

WIP Wednesday - Spring has sprung!

After the bedlam of the Easter break it's great to be back in routine and have some quiet time in the afternoons to rediscover my sewing mojo.

I've been reading how organised everyone is and how they're ticking items off their finish-along list already, you know who you are!

My Spring Whimsy quilt is pretty much all pieced, I just need to put a little bit more white around the edges. I have ordered the wadding and backing so there will not be anymore progress for a couple of days on this one until it arrives.


And don't you just love it when friends come around, see the blocks hanging on the design wall (sounds posh but is really just a piece of wadding held up by trouser hangers suspended on picture hooks!) and bagsy the quilt before it's even pieced! And she said she'd pay me for it as well! Result!

Another item on my Finish-along list is to resurrect my kaleidoscope blocks which were a complete failure at my last attempt. I went back online and printed the templates again, re-read all the instructions, comments & feedback and voila! Two lovely blocks so far!

I think this particular project was about overcoming the fear that I couldn't do it and mentally being in the right place to try again.  I was able to recut the triangles I had previously cut to the wrong size which I am very relieved about because I DID NOT want my Denyse Schmidt prints to go to waste!



Stats:
No progress this week year so far on the;
Solids HST Diamond Quilt - needs re-basting as I've changed my mind about the backing fabric!
Black and White King Size Bed Quilt - completed quilt top, partial quilt back
Dresden Plate - partial quilt top
Kids T-shirt Memory Quilt - some t shirts cut....

Finishes this week: 0
New Projects this week: 0
In Progress: 7

Linking up with Freshly Pieced

Friday, 3 February 2012

Nah nah ne nah nah!

No I'm not impersonating a fire engine! I'm doing that very annoying 'look what i've won' noise!!!!!!


The very lovely and super talented Laurie Wisbrun was having a giveaway of her new Modern Whimsy line and I won!!! I'm no #86!!! I'm very excited. My package came in super quick time from the States and also included the Bejeweled pattern by Amanda Murphy.

The prints are so spring-like with lambs, rabbits, swans... but they'll have to wait as my next project will be to finally cut into my FQ stack of Laurie's Tufted Tweets.

And whilst we're on the subject of lovely and super talented ladies, Lily's Quilts is hosting the Small Blog Meet at the moment, so if like me you have fewer than 50 followers why not hop over there and link up, take a look at some other small blogs and make some new friends!

Small Blog Meet
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