I found my way back to Storm at Sea

 Hello, it has been a while. I have had a bit of the ‘can’t be bothered’ mood.

I got my quilt back from Jackson and it is amazing. So much fun with the little fishes quilted in and so many bubbles. I love it

See the fish

And the bubbles

The binding was a little bit of the unknown and a challenge but I trimmed it up.

 Then I had to work out how to get a lot of bias binding to fit curves. I saw a great, quick tutorial online so thought, why not give it a try. The video uses 1/2 metre of fabric but I didn’t know how much I needed so I just used 1 metre. 

Only 2 seams and cutting lines. No drawing lines or getting twisted.

2nd seam done. Looks a bit messy but it was magic.

Finish the cutting

And now I have 20 metres of 2 1/2” wide bias binding

2 seams and cutting for bulk bias binding tutorial 

Binding is getting sewn on

Nearly done

On to the hand stitching. I don’t hand stitch down many bindings as I do a lot of charity quilts and hand stitching them takes a few nights.

Moving along nicely and I’m nearly done. 3 nights later and it was finished.

It looks super amazing. I am thrilled to bits with it.

This was a Storm at Sea SAL with my quilt group Sunraysia Patchwork Friends. Everyone’s quilts came out so different. I think this will make a little one very happy. One to put away until the right person comes along.

My project for the retreat. Storm at Sea. Moda Love

 I have been working on my Storm at Sea quilt. We were travelling to the retreat in Ali small bus so I couldn’t take too much with me. I had to be very careful with packing. Don’t forget I had to pack a heap of gifts that were purchased for the retreat too. So my decision was storm at sea which was already cut out with the go cutter and would take some time to sew up and finish. 

My decision was made. This is what I started with.

Now it is finished. I worked hard. This has now been taken by Annette to deliver to Jackson in Armidale for quilting. I have chosen 2 designs but I’m not sure if they are suitable. They are both edge to edge. I am very excited to see what he does with them.

The project for the weekend was a Moda love free project. 

Candy/Mini Charm, Charm or Layer Cake

It is a quilt you can make with any size fabric squares. 

This is what I made.

I decided to use the fabrics that came in the tin I bought from Judy.

So I searched through the pile and made the fabrics work. 

But OH NO…. I can see that I have mixed up 2 of the 1/2 square triangles. Now, do I unpick and fix or leave them. Well, I am not ready to use this up but I do know how I want to use it. I have decided to make it into a zippered project pouch.

Annette had one she was using and I liked the design.

But I especially like the 3d flowers that have been put on the outside of the plastic. Annette gave me some steam a seam to use for making them. I have not used this before so will give it a go.

Now for all the other Moda Love quilts that were made. I’m sure there were more made but these are all the photos I could find in the shared file.

 

This one is the size of a potholder. A Mini.

Early February SAS and a pin cushion.

 Hi everyone. I am going to be playing catch-up over the next couple of posts. I have had a good and not so good month and have not done anything to do with sewing. So now I will start with.

WHERE AM I AT WITH MY SAS.

I have turned both corners and it is looking good.

I got another row sewn together and another block laid out ready to sew but that has been put on hold until Scrub Stitchin. I think this is what I will be working on as everyone there wants to see it for show n tell.

Also ready for scrub Stitchin is this little pin cushion/clover clip holder. Last year when I was there Chooky gave me a pattern to try. Well, I finally got around to it. It was a tiny log cabin, paper pieced block. What to do with it stalled me but that is sorted now.

I dug into my scrap basket.

Started to sew.

Finished the block and removed the papers.

A pin cushion was made.

Then my clover clips added, ready for my sewing bag to take to Scrub Stitchin. The pattern wasn’t wasted.  It measures 5” finished.

Thanks Chooky

SAS progress. Are you tired of my progress photos.

I think I need to take stage by stage photos of my SAS to keep me inspired.

It is a very long project that I could easily loose interest in. 

Ok… I have the ship block done - now to make the corner par to join it to. Here are the cut pieces laid out.

Now sewn into a corner block

Next are the sides blocks of the ship.

The left hand side

The right hand side all laid out.

And stitched

Then I sewed them all together. BUT OOPS. I think I forget the lower left hand pieces of the border.

Here, this looks better. All sewn.

Can you see how I am doing the outer edge in a darker navy so it creates a border. Once the blocks are sewn together in rows there will be nothing else to sew other than quilting it.

SAS choppy seas and Jack Sparrow has visited again. Poor Dory

 I am slowly moving along with my Storm at Sea quilt. All my pieces for the next row are laid out.

Do you see Dory swimming around. Well she got a bit confused. The seas must have been a bit too choppy and she got knocked about. 

Swimming upside down.

So I had to have Jack Sparrow visit me. He got it sorted for me.

Dory is back to normal now so I could move on to the next blocks.

Can you see the stars across the top and the beginning of the first right star at night.

What do you think of the navy border that is being created. Once the blocks/rows are sewn together my borders are already done.

The rest of the row is laid out ready for the next sewing day. It looks a bit of a mess but I’m getting there. I’m also loving these project boards. They have made it so much easier to keep my pieces in place until they are sewn.

Another SAS block is done… and the next one prepared.

 Ok. I have been working on my next SAS block. I had made the little ship block a while back but needed to make it up to a 12” block. I have had it laid out ready to sew. Started piecing. This first part took longer than expected. I had skipped stitches, loose threads and other issues. I rewound my bobbin, changed thread, changed needle and tried again. It seemed to be better now.

So I continued on and completed the block.

But there were rocky seas with the piece next to the ships sail. It didn’t look right. So I spent half hour with jack sparrow

Then another half hour restitching to get to this. I think it looks much better. You can now see the ship and sail much better. 

How fun is Limo swimming around. Here the blocks are together. Now to get the last sailing ship ready in its 12” block.

I have laid out the last ship block ready to sew.