Grandmas braid is done on

I got the job of quilting a friends beautiful Grandmas Braid quilt.

Her colours went together really well. With lovely bright purples, blues, burgundy a & floral.

It was a course done many years ago and before the top was only half way done it was put in the cupboard. Now, since it was dragged out it has been put together ready for quilting.

Oh no !!!!!!!

When I went to baste it, after all her work, it was very out of skew. Working with all edges of bias is very tricky. It bent in every way it wasn't meant too.
Anyway, to help out a friend in need I had another wonderful friend put it all apart and trim all the strips.
This is what we ended up with.......

 The piping between the braids

          

  The odd lengths of braids. All 9 of them

 

. Then we have the different lengths of borders.  

   Wow, back in one piece and a lot of trimming to do 

              Borders are on & it's time for quilting.

IT's NOW QUILTED WITH AN ALL OVER STIPPLE TO TAME THOSE BIAS BUBBLES.

I think what happened was when strip 1 & 2 were sewn together the edge curved, next was strip 3, curved some more and then strip 4......until all 9 were sewn on. It ended up being 1 big stretched curve. BUT it doesn't matter now. It's all together and fairly straight.

Fantastic and great effort. 

( what are friends for )

I thought I would tackle this project and join in with Friday Night with Friends. Go on over to see what everyone else was doing.

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I have thought I might get started on those Xmas presents & Kris Kringle ideas.

If I make 1 or 2 a month it won't be such a rush at the end of the year.

So I have started making double ended oven mitts.

 thanks to  RSC14 @ So Scrappy

Irene's block

I was partnered up with a newbie in the 12" Block Swap this month.

Irene asked for any block in blues, pink, green & yellow. 

So I thought pretty baby.

I did a nice Disappearing 9 patch..

I added a little gift.

No one has to put in anything extra but I like to add a little surprise.

Teddy Bears in Bed Under a Patchwork Quilt

 I have finished a babies cot quilt. It is so cute.

I am very happy with the way it turned out.

Most of the blocks were listed on Starwood Quilter site. This is an online book club where we read a book that is in some way quilt related. Then Susan puts up blocks & their links for all to make.

I have tried a few different blocks in different sizes to make up this cot quilt.

It measures 36" x 50"

Here is a close up of the quilting. Lovely teddy bears.

Grandmas Flower Garden Hexagons a go go

I have this special friend who has just finished a wonderful quilt.

Her grandmother started hand stitching, cutting papers & collecting fabrics about 25 years ago. Sadly she passed. Luckily my friend inherited the fabrics, papers and some blocks pieced about 15 years ago. 

With the help of me we pulled it out of the bag, sorted through it and the lessons began.

My friend had never made a quilt before so here we started. Teaching what English paper piecing was & how to hand sew. Well, she learned quickly and the flowers grew & grew. Slowly over the year they built up and we shopped for a path fabric. Cornflour blue was chosen to match the bedroom. 

The size was then decided to cover a king size bed to nearly the floor.

The flowers were joined together, now it was time for the quilting. I was determined to give the quilt what it deserved. HAND QUILTING. I just love it. So another lesson was given so she decided to quilt in the ditch around every 2nd round. Years later and it is done.

It is beautiful and finished. Sitting proudly on her bed.

Excellent job and well done. I am very proud to have inspired my friend to complete this quilt. 

It will be treasured of many years.

What a beauty. Congratulations V. xx

Slow Stitching Sunday

I spent the early morning sorting out my cupboards, finding UFO's and listing them on another page 2014 UFO's

Then I realised how long I have been working on projects, how long it has been since I have touched the project. So when I came across Slow Stitching Sundays I thought it was about time I pulled out my hand quilting project. I haven't worked on this for a few years. I actually started this quilt 10 years ago. I bought this kit from a shop/house in  Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia called Chocolate Coated Fabrics. It was for my 40th birthday. I will be 50 soon so I should get back to it & get it finished.

It is Blue Hearts quilt with lots of machine pieced 4" log cabins, hand appliquéd hearts & hand stitched Celtic bias. I love it.

I have started to echo quilt around the fans. 

The centre hearts have quilting in the ditch.

What better project to spend my Sundays relaxing & hand quilting

Sues block in the 6" block swap

6" BLOCK SWAP AUSTRALIA

Go on over and have look at this site.

I have joined this to get me back into a little bit of sewing.

Each month you are allocated a partner. You make 2 blocks for them & you receive 2 in return.

Here are my blocks for Sue B.

Sue asked for Red & White baskets.

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I have also decided to do the

http://superscrappy.blogspot.com.au/p/rsc12.html

I think I want to make a single block each month and then at the end of the year put it together. So it will hopefully be 12 blocks.
My block has measured 18" unfinished. It will make a nice size quilt.

It is also a wonky star block made with all scraps in January's colour Blue...

I followed the tutorial for Reverse Rainbow Starburst Block & quilt idea here

This is the finished quilt over at Flutter Kat

Following So Scrappy

I have had a good day today following So Scappy

I decided to give it a go and make some of Angela's January Blue blocks.

Here are my first 2 blocks. They measure 6.5".

 Roman Stripes

Half Square Triangles

Go on over and have a look at what's going on at Rainbow Scrap Challenge Sampler

My Chevron blocks

January's Chevron Blocks for BLOCK LOTTO

I have done 4 of these blocks.

3 are purple and 1 is a very dark brown.

These were made with the easy technique for 1/2 square triangles.

8 at once. EASY.

Go on over to have a look.

Click on the link BLOCK LOTTO above.