We are over 1/2 way in Sept which means it’s almost Oct and 3/4 of the way through 2017 and I have not done 1/2 the quilt work I wanted to this year!!!!!
This week I have been baby sitting and having visitors so not a lot done but my garden is looking nice LOL
I started these blocks so long ago Ive forgotten when pulled them yesterday when looking for some thing else LOL I showed you these last week well I did fill in one using the pattern block of part 7 of The Secret Garden by Esther Aliu’s 2017 BOM!!!!!
SO another block finished and only 9 to go LOL
Still plodding along on my part7 triangle, not sure what it is about these wee blocks but I get so much enjoyment out of making them which is just as well as its been a couple of months that I have worked on them at night time. I still have not found the first 4 I made????
Bottom 1/2 of Lucie’s quilt top waiting to be appliquéd by hand and machine I only have 14 days left!!!!!!
Last week I showed you two quilt tops that had been made by women in a workshop and they were given to me to finish???????
These are the two quilts that need to be finished this one is a double or King size almost.
Number 2 quilt top single or small double quilt top.
I need to come up with a solution to finish these two quilt tops with out any costs?????? or very little! On Sunday two new duvet covers were handed in to the shop single and double?
Here we have the very large quilt top and the double duvet cover that was handed in to the shop ? It will be perfect to back the double quilt if I unpick it, slightly smaller than the quilt top BUT the back can be used for the single quilt and the left over can be added to front green. I will make them covette’s so no batting required my solution is solved bar time and I will just have to fit that in some how.
Do you remember the the first thing you ever quilted??????
I went to a class on how to learn Hawaiian quilting? On Tonga Island about 20 years ago and this lovely women from Hawaii spent a morning with 12 of us teaching us the rocking stitch that the Hawaiian women use . Before she started she said if you are not prepared to sit here for 4 hrs while I teach you then another 4 hrs at home you will be wasting my time and yours because thats how long it will take you to learn this way and never forget it!!!!!!! It was true it took me just over 7 hrs that day and to be honest I threw the towel in at one stage and cried on my bed with frustration as I so wanted to learn.
My piece of fabric was a 30inch square of plain calico when I started to learn the rocking motion for Hawaiian quilting. It was just a piece of blank calico but I tooth brush painted it after I’d finished quilting it all. I learnt to do this before I started to do patchwork.
Close up of those small stitches I had to learn????? I drew this simple design as I wanted to learn to do very straight lines and curves in the one lesson LOL
Last week a lovely piece of synthetic silk fabric was handed in to the shop when we opened it we found it had either been left in the sun or some thing had been spilt on it. Been silk like it is very difficult to photograph.
This is the other 1/2 of the fabric . I brought it home as I will cut out the flowers so it does not matter that it is bleached in parts those flowers will still be OK to use.
Back of fabric see all those lovely rainbow colours they used in the weft of this piece of fabric..
these flowers will be so lovely to use in Broderie Perse
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Garden is smelling so fresh after a full day of rain it’s been 7 weeks of no rain which I’m so happy about but not the trees LOL
I spent a day cleaning up this area last week.
Even the back of tropical leaves are fascinating.
and dead leaves even fascinate me.
Off to join up with Esther on her blog now. Thank you for visiting and taking the time to read my blog. I will enjoy visiting you if you leave you name and blog. . Cheers Glenda
yes the year is 3/4 of the way over – is it just as we get older or what but the years are flying by – I will be 65 years old next week – I remember when I thought that was old! all of your quilts, fabric and plants look so wonderful – you always show such beautiful things.
Hi Karen, we’ve just had two days of rain so every thing has burst in to growth double quick time, my tomatoes are up to a metre high now in a month!!!! to much growth so may be no fruit. Beans are flowering and only 12inchs high!!!! I’ve never had any success with vegetables here in the tropics but I still keep trying even after 20 years LOL Having sewing machine troubles two down at the moment one to go so hopefully I get my Golly quilt top machine applqiued before it gives up too. Lucie arrives on the 4th Sept to claim it. Hugs Glenda
Loved seeing your hawaian stitching, well worth the time it took to learn how to do it, must help you with the Shashiko stitching you do today. Your quilt for Lucie is so cute, would love to see her face when you give it to her. Have a pink fabric very similar to your lovely blue synthetic silk, can’t bring myself to throw it out but the pink is such an awful shad, now there might be a use for the flowers yet. Love your garden photos, so lush and vibrant being in the rainforest. Hugs Jenny
Thank Jenny, yes Ive never forgotten it and have had 20 odd years of enjoying hand quilting and it has filled in 1000’s of hours when we were living behind barbwire fences!!!! Sashiko quilting uses a completely different movement, you use a thimble on your middle finger and it is a flat disc thimble that sits inside your palm at the bottom of your middle finger. It is a lot more kinder to your hand if you have arthritis in your thumb or fingers. SO I will be doing a lot of sashiko quilting on my quilt tops to quilt them in future. That synthetic silk fabric sheds some thing awful so I’m going to iron on some light fusing before cutting out the flower shapes. will let you know how it goes. Hugs Glenda
Hello Glenda,
thanks for the beautiful garden photos! I have some plants that bloom in your garden at my window sill (bromelia anturia). Lucie’s quilt becomes wonderful. You can do it!
Have a nice day, Marita