Time to start quilting & NO COMMENTS are coming to my email

 Apologies if I haven’t got back to some of you if you have left comments. Blogger is not sending them through to my email again. Why do they keep changing things? It is so frustrating. I am checking every couple of days but it is more time consuming. So SORRY.

NOW FOR THE SEWING STUFF…..

Before I could start quilting I needed to give my machine some love

Look at that dust

I was in an international swap with some ladies in the USA back in 2019. We each had to make multiple book blocks and another item on a bookshelf block. In return I received many blocks from other people. I managed to finish the top in 2020. It was basted in 2021 and started quilted in December 2022.

I will have to do another label to show the completion date.

I had done more quilting on this quilt than initially thought.

Trouble was the bobbin thread was coming through to the front on the black fabric. The thread kept on breaking. This was probably the reason for putting it in the cupboard. 

So I got started.

Took my time and the sewing went much better. I have nearly finished the black background areas.

I am using glide thread which is very slippery. I found these little clips that fit onto bobbins. They keep the thread from unravelling 

I wound a couple of bobbins ready for a sewing session.

I tried a few flowers on the border. My machine was sewing well. I am not the most even quilters but I am happy with what I do. There are a mix of flowers. No set design. Just whatever happens.

This quilt might see a finish…

It’s the end of January. Where has the month gone.

 This month has been hot. The car temperature got to 50 deg Celsius. Did I say it’s been hot. I really haven’t been in the mood for sewing, crafting, blogging or anything really. I’m not sure what is going on with blogger but I now find I cannot comment on half the blogs I follow. I go from one to the next comment then the next one won’t allow me to. So please know I am reading them but cannot leave a comment. Work has been extremely busy. So thank you Chooky for the chance to have a few short zooms.

While on Zoom I also started knitting another teabag scarf. Photos on another post to come. But for sewing I made another zippered placemat. It went together very quickly. I have started another one for a demonstration/tutorial I am doing at quilt group. 

I am using all the scraps from left over from a mystery quilt I made.

Having fun sewing them altogether.

Zip step 1

Zip step 2

The zip is in

The top is all together

I’m ready for quilting

My red table scraps don’t meet the criteria with the snowmen but they are red.

https://thejoyfulquilter.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-2022-table-scraps-challenge.html

Sewing along with Angela and my red scraps 

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2022/01/scraphappy-saturday-week-5-wrapping-up.html

And yes, you were right Deana. This new placemat will be a gift for a friends birthday soon as she really loved mine when I showed her. She also goes on a lot of picnics so it will be used a lot.

I have had the grandsons for overnight where we had pancakes and icecream for breakfast. Their dad thought I was crazy. They boys loved it. We have also celebrated the youngest grandsons 11th birthday. It was fun. Sorry . No photos of that..

I idi a little sewing job for a friend and sewed some patches on his leather jacket. I said a bottle of wine would be a nice Thank you gesture. Well, he got the message and gave me 3 dozen bottles. I think I owe him a huge thank you.

Also had a great all day sew at our quilt group. I worked some more on Bonnie Hunters RT mystery. I have not got very far. I also made an accordion purse but it is not completely finished. The girls on zoom got to see where I was up to.

My daughter has been a bit sad after hearing news of a friends decline in health. Friends have started a go fund me page as they need help to make what’s left of her life a little easier. A lovely 40 year old with a loving husband and very young son has to deal with the terrible disease, Alzheimers. I had one completed charity quilt left to donate and my daughter wanted to pass it on for comfort and later on as a memory of her. My beautiful scrappy BUTTERFLIES. So tonight I sewed on the label and it’s ready to be delivered.

Please help out if you can.                  https://gofund.me/426383ff

Look at the perfect matched label.

Well I haven’t been able to find a finished photo so must get one before it gets sent of to its new home.

If you have reached the bottom of this post… Thankyou.

I have not felt like doing a post for a while so it is all in one. If you see my side bar the last 2 years I have not been up to where I normally was. Is this due to covid.

Looking forward to February