Early mornings over the river have been so beautiful and misty this week, but ohhhh so cold too!!!!!.
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WOW or WIP’s this week. Last week I was working on my Red and Green quilt top corner design, all though I loved this quilt top of Locus Groove I was not comfortable with how the borders looked, to me they had so little movement for these lovely centre blocks? So I decided to make up my own design here.
Where I started placing 3 Roses and working from them? I did not like how the grapes were coming from the centre rose so they went first!
Slowly the vein grew till it reached the centre Rose and when I was happy I traced this pattern on to paper.
Tracing my pattern on to cooking paper its easy to see through and just the right width.
I flipped the paper over and now have the identical pattern for this side of the corner.
I did like how it was growing.
Completed corner? None of those border circles or leaves are sewn down just placed to help me see how the design will look, I need to Finnish the other 3 centre blocks first. Now working on my second block and still loving working those wee red circles .
I have also been working on making my 4 large triangles of Queens Garden
I cut my triangle as triangles not squares to start as my fabric was not wide enough to make up as squares. First I added my 1/2 circles using iron on fussing Inner circle is machine stitched down in Gold and the outer ring in deep cyclamen red using these two colours stops the circle been a heavy band to my eyes and it floats more. .
I did a forward stitch one back one forward for my veins on my leaves.
Then a buttonwhole stitich around the edges of the leaves also in gold
After machine sewing down my 1/2 circle I added my flower and machine appliquéd it down.
Love these triangles
What it would ahve looked like if I had done them as a square first.
If doing as a triangle make sure you add that seam allowance cut bigger, its easier to cut some off but very difficult but not impossible to add!!!! LOL
Back of one of the triangles I’m using a very light weight iron interfacing. I find it so much easier to machine applqiue with it there.
Those tiny circles but we have had 1/2 this size in other designs of Esther’s!!!!!
While cleaning up a corner of my sewing area last Friday I came across these blocks again!!!! These blocks were found in the trash bin at a Opp Shop I fell in love with the colours and fabric and had to rescue that fabric, they were mostly just blocks and 4 were sewn together but they were all different sizes so it was a very ugly square!!!!! I had to unpick every one of these blocks some complexly some 1/2 way, then I added another border to make them in to a better size , these are quilt as you go blocks and should have been easy but there was so much unpicking and resewing, these were put away like this photo below?
My abstract logcabin quilt as you go blocks partly sewn together last Friday when I pulled them out yet again to work on?????
Left hand two panels joined and i have pinned right hand side ready to sew after cutting back the wadding by 1/4 of an inch to make those seams lie nice and flat.
On Sunday after working on it for 3 days? But I felt the black was a little too stark and may be I should add some applique??????
Then on Tuesday I was gifted these lovely cotton Kimonos by a friend who knows I love to use these fabric s for my patchwork. As soon as I saw the black one I knew where it should be used and I spent a day unpicking it.
So here is my kimono now?????? I love it the dusky pinks mauves and greens which are the same tones that are in the log-cabin blocks. I hope to have those borders sewn on and the quilt top finished by next Wednesday.
Our wet season has finally left us and its time to clean up the grounds before it comes again or we will disappear in to the undergrowth, we have to do this every eyar after the rains have gone.
Hubby has been cutting back the bulk and Im now cleaning up the small stuff!!!!
the 3 Palms on the left of the photo looked like the one on the right the morning I took this photo, yesterday I finished the one on the right .
One on the right is cleaned up now? You can see the light coming in now.
Tree ants nest all woven leaves when they are green.
1 1/2 metres of one of the palms that had become over grown and was blocking out all the sun and light.
Early this morning after the mist had lifted
I lost a pair of my glasses last week????? when walking around the garden this morning taking photos for my blog I found them LOL
A mothers day gift that is very happy and growing fast????
My piles of rubbish from the last two days??????
To days project is to prune these piles of Brom’s that were on the trunks of the palm trees and replant them, they are easy to replant you just throw them on the ground here and they grow LOL Hard work is cutting them all in to pieces.
Project completed and area all cleaned till next year. Just needs some deck chairs and grass LOL.
Road frontage this morning after palm trees were removed a very bare garden.
Same place 2hrs later!!! I’ve stolen Broms from around the garden I have so many now you can not see where I took them from, all these. Will be flowering next year or the following but for now they all colour with their leaves.
My sky above me right now as I write my blog!
Off to link with Esther now.
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Thanks for taking the time to drop in, I know you all lead very very busy lives. Cheers Glenda who is off in to the garden.
My goodness me you’ve been busy! Busy making beautiful art with your quilts and busy helping nature in your garden. You must be very pleased with everything that you’ve achieved.
I particularly like the quilt that you are putting together with the rescued log cabin blocks. It has clearly been worth sorting out all those poorly constructed blocks in order to produce something so lovely!
Hi Plum, I’ve finally caught up with my mail, like the logcabin quilt I’ve managed to stop doing sewing housework and gardening to just sit quietly and answer some mail. It was only 50 years ago I had to write a letter by hand, post it then wait 3 to 4 weeks for a reply, now it arrives withers seconds in your mail box? I still miss the joy of walking to the mail box and seeing a letter in it, making a cup of tea and the sitting down and devouring the letter over my cuppa LOL. Now we chat an6 time we like you and I and we could not be further apart you in the UK and I at the bottom of the world ??? I’m now rescuring some 1930 wee 1/4 circles and makin* a snowball quilt from them, this has been a lot more of a challenge and great more unpicking and resetting by hand, but I think I may be able to sew the finished blocks together by machine. Garden is slowly looking lovely again but still needs a lot of TLC. Jon and Laure gave me a very big herb planter box for my birthday on the 14th so now busy working
on that. Cheers Glenda.
Your applique blocks are so lovely. You are doing such a great job with the machine applique. The border on the log cabin blocks is perfect, beautiful! Flowerbeds are lovely but a lot of work. Happy stitching.