SAS - Another 12” Sailing Ship done.

 Wow. These blocks take hours to do. I am lucky this is the last of them. It was also the hardest.

I have most of the ship made and am now trying to fit the areas around it to make up to a 12” block.

I am trying to incorporate some SAS pieces to blend in with the other blocks. 

This, so far, has taken me 2 hours.

Another 1 1/2 - 2 hours saw me finish the block. What was I thinking when I drew this up. 

And here the 4 ships are together. Next on the to do list will be to make the smaller blocks up to a 12” block. So that means the outside sashing borders can go on.

I am happy how these are looking.

I am on track for our first sewing weekend in Feb to sew as a group.

SAS . My blocks have sailed.

 Okay, so our official sit n sew day for my Storm at Sea quilt SAL isn’t until February. You know what it’s like when it is all cut out and you just want to sew. I have been playing with my block of a ship. I’m glad I did it at home because it took me hours. I think these harder blocks need a lot of concentration.

Anyway, this is the block I wanted to start on. It’s the 9” one.

It took about an hour to find all the pieces and lay them out ready for sewing.

It is looking a bit of a mess.

Well the ships mast is done and some of the boat part too. This was about another hours work. I’m not sure how the overall quilt will look but I will give it a go.

Well, obviously I am getting tired as this isn’t quite right. Oopsie 

Jack has been used many times while making this block but wow it’s looking good. I am happy. I can see the boat. There are a few eye spy blocks too to keep the kids amused. 

This is the last Saturday for https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2023/01/scraphappy-saturday-wrapping-up-blue.html

I have sent off another Aussie Hero Quilt

 You may all remember this quilt I made a while back.

I watch the email every Monday until I find someone requesting what I have already made. Finally I was lucky enough to have someone request RED, WHITE & BLUE.

There have been so many months where the requests have been so hard. They either request so many things or so many hard things to interpret. It gets very overwhelming. I have kept this one simple. This person requested more but we are doing this as a charity so I’m not going to stress.

This is what I have made& sent.

The front

The back

Or which ever way you want to use it.

This recipient loves the Western Bulldogs. AFL

Christmas mini slow stitching

 I have gone back to some slow stitching on my Xmas mini.

Slow Stitching Sunday

Its hanging sleeve is getting sewn then binding time.

The coat hanger was cut down to use.

It looks a bit wonky in the photo but it really isn’t that bad. The hanger has made it look a bit funny.

I just need to finish the stockings now.

STORM @ SEA Go Cutting day

 Our quilt group is having a sal for the Storm at Sea quilt design. They bought a go cutter die for us to use to make things easier.

 It still took hours to prepare and cut the shapes ready for our sewing day.

And now I have them all cut and ready for our weekend of sewing.

It was also aSaturday so I am linking up with Angela from SoScrappy for Scrap Happy Saturday as this months colour is blue.

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An easy charity quilt

 My friend was given a pile of fabric for our charity quilts. When she looked through there were a few pieces of fabric that could be used as cushions or blocks put into a quilt. Instead of cutting them apart we thought we could just quilt it as is. There was also enough of one fabric that would be suitable for the backing. As well as a suitable binding fabric too.

Now to get a member to quilt it.

A relaxing day slow stitching on a Scrub Stitchin’ pouch

 I have continued with my stitching on this cute Scrub Stitchin’ pouch. 

I have all the hand stitching done.

Now time to follow the pattern to assemble the pouch

I got the zip put in. YES I can do it.

The stitchery piece is appliquéd on and the pouch is complete

STORM @ SEA sailing ships.

 I have all my pieces cut out on the go cutter for this quilt but I need to have a few sailing ships to go in there too.

So I sat and had a play. Using up some scrap blues, which just happens to be the RSC colour for January.

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Having fun with scraps. Not really knowing what I am doing. Just having a play.

And this is what I have done so far. They are cute..

Here are the 2 blocks side by side. These ones measure 6”.

I need another block that measures 9” and one that’s in between the 2 sizes. I’ll be working on them soon.

Mini Christmas Wallhanging

 I have started working on an old UFO. My Christmas Mini.

The pieces had all been embroidered and waiting to be joined together.

All pieces are now trimmed and ready for joining

This wall hanging is only small so I thought it was a good chance to piece it together doing QAYG. It made the process a bit quicker.

This is what it will look like when done. I still have to make the stockings and hand stitch the binding down.

Slow stitching

 I have picked up my stitching that was started a while ago.

Here is the start of today

And here is the end of today.

Every little bit helps.

Linking up with Kathy for slow stitching Sunday

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2023/01/slow-sunday-stitching_02094618467.html

Dalmatian Round Robin

 Time to get this cutie out and do something with it.

Getting the backing and wadding ready to layer the top

I have just basted my Dalmatian Round Robin quilt ready for quilting.

I’m not sure how I will quilt it but I’ll give it a go. I’ll work it out as I sew along.

Storm at Sea Sew-a-Long

 So I have pulled all my blues and started to cut the sizes required for them to be put through on Saturday. It is a slow job but I will get there.

Here is my plan

Starting with the outside border colours

It’s a slow start

The pile is going down

There is still more to cut.

The trimmings to be thrown out

And I am linking up with Angela for scrap happy Saturday with my scrappy blues

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2023/01/back-to-normal.html

Settling into 2023

 We went away for a few days to celebrate a friends 60th. It was a little bit of a drive but not too far. As we were spending a few days there we took our bus. We parked up then relaxed. Look at our view. Who couldn’t relax looking at that. We sat on the front porch and chilled out.

Time to go home and on the way we came across these little fellows.

Now I am home it’s time to get some sewing and planning done.

New Years Day 2023

 HAPPY NEW YEARS 2023