We have passed the 1/2 way mark of this year!!!!! Not sure how it happened but it did LOL This week I have been working on several quilt parts from LE, circles, Japanese quilts to my baby quilt.

Just finished my 2nd 365quilty circles quilt. now I need to sandwich it to do hand sashiko quilting on it. I say hand as now they can do sashiko quilting on sewing machines!!!!!

I picked up my Quilty365 Circles again!!! I have made 267 circles so far and this is my next 90 all cut out plus 4 1/2 inch square blocks all just fit neatly in to this wee cigar box. All my circles are cut from Japanese kimono fabrics.

I picked these little backings for quilting pins up for $1.00 I thought it was a bit gimmicky but for $1.00 I thought I would give them a try. But WOWWW they make the pins so easy to use when you have arthritic hands.
I could not wait to try adding my first two twisted flowers to my LE border I’m working on.

Adding my first two twisted flowers to this border. Stems are bias cotton ribbon 1/2 wide which I cut in 1/2 the stems ended up about 16th of an inch wide.

These pieces of fabric are very tiny but there are many smaller pieces yet to make for inside these leaf circles!!!!!! Stem is 100% cotton but rest is all 100% silk.

Finally hand appliquéd my black bias around my outer circle of the centre of Little Hazel, designed by Esther Aliu; it took me 3 1/2 hrs ?????

Close up of that slow stitching! I have pulled some fabrics for my swirl blocks and started cutting out the shapes on to washaway iron on freezer paper.
Japanese Ikat fabric

I’ve washed and just finished unpicking a beautiful Ikat cotton Kimono which I want to use on the backing of my Japanese quilt. this is a hand reset pattern using rice glue then dipped in to indigo dye baths. origianlly it was a 11 metre long bolt of fabric woven at 14inch wide only. Im going to try sewing it all back together again? then I will have the pattern flowing for the backing, it is such beautiful fabric and design it will be worth all the time spent doing this.

Trying to work out were the original fabric was cut and sew it all back together the design will flow when I sew it in to the backing for a quilt.

These panels are woven at 14inchs wide, and the design is set with a rice glue then dyed in indigo a long slow process but what a lovely soft soft look it gives.

I sat one night and appliquéd the face and ears on to some of the sheep. Easier than threading the machine up with pink thread as both machines are been used at present. This is going on to the bottom of a wee girls quilt.

Its fungi time again and when this one blooms you can smell it 50 metres away. I removed this one and the next day another one had grown in its place the one below. .

A fungi which has the most ghastly pungent smell, just before taking the photo it had around 20 flies on or around it!!!!!
I took many photos of my caterpillar making his web I wrote a blog during the week just on him. http://www.patchworkdreams.com.au/?p=8986
It has been wonderful to watch my caterpillar grow over the last two weeks.

He has attached himself here and over 24 hrs covered himself completely. I could not believe how he wove all those spiky hairs in to his web.
Ive been sitting here an hour and Im due down the range, so must fly out the door. Will Update when I come back. Happy sewing all who sew and thank you all for visiting me. Cheers Glenda who is going to link up with Esther now.
http://estheraliu.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/wow-wip-busting.html
Love your circles are you planning on having these quilts in a grouping on the wall- your circle quilts I mean?
Love that fungi the way it looks do to envy you the smell!! So many little fiddle pieces on Love Entwined – that might be why I have not been able to get back into it.
What a fantastic blog Glenda, has kept me scrolling up and down for ages as there is so much to take in and comment on. Love how you are using your quilty circles as several small quilts they will look wonderful hanging as a group. Great work on your twisty flowers they are fiddly to deal with. great to see your LE growing. Your black bias works so well on Little Hazel, wondering what fabrics you are going to choose for your swirly blocks? Gorgeous design on the Kimono you have unpicked, don’t know that I would have the patience but then I look at your fabric and yes it is worth the time. Never seen a Toadstool like your “stinky” one, so unusual it’s a shame you have to remove them. See you have identified your caterpiller, What emerges, a moth a butterfly? I’m having a quiet day today and hope to catch up on my blogging as have missed the last couple of weeks. Hugs Jenny.