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This has been waiting several years to be quilted?

Turn the right 4 panels in to a beach rug.  Found these 7 strips in a opp shop they are made out of rubber backed curtain fabric, to heavy to put a backing and wadding too but will make great beach rugs water and sand proof!

Started this years ago!!!!!!  Would like to add to it?????

The Secret Garden by Esther Aliu 2017 Mystery BOM

Do some more work on this 2017 BOM of Esther Aliu’s

One of my QAYG logcabin quilt tops I rescued from an Opp Shop Needs to be finished sewing together.

Queens Garden BOB for 2818 by Esther Aliu

Centre for Morning Glory one of Esther Aliu BOMS for 2018

First block of a BOM Queens Garden by Esther Aliu I’ve loved doing this block.

part 2 arrived yesterday and I spent some time printing cutting, glueing, and taping my template for it . So that ends Jan 2018 .

First block of a BOM Queens Garden by Esther Aliu I’ve loved doing this block.

Mums Jacobean runner finished so happy I was able to rescue this piece of her work for some one use and to enjoy.

A week ago my DGD 4 made her first quilt top on the little hand machine on the table.

On Sunday she spent the day with me and we turned that wee quilt top in to a quilt.  she has mastered the feed in to the needle so well I let her sit at my Janome and sew this in to a quilt top, I pressed the treadle and she did every thing else.

I finished machine appliquéing my Queens Garden block except for the circles on the crown.

As I’m learning to machine appliquéing I’m writing down the width and length of my stitches I do on each project, I’m so glad Ive done this as I for get  what I did after a-couple of days.

What a difference a day makes!!!!!  Applqiueing those wee circles down with a double applqiue stitch in side each other give depth, texture, and a sparkle to them.  Was Jenny’s ( Henry) idea.

Love how the maching appliqué has turned my yellow looking holes in to tiny wee Jems, I hope to get the other 6 done to day then the block is completed it was such a delight to make, Thank you Esther.

Taken in day light

On my window last night!

Appliqué the four corners down and rolled it around a swimming noddle till Feb 1st !!  This way it will stay nice and flat.  Actually I lie the quilt centre facing down before rolling it up.

All rolled up and labelled.

Not sure if these are the last on es or if I have two mor e to go. Will lay them out later?

What it looked like when I rolled it open, it’s about 50 years old and I’d like to rescue it so it can be hung?

I have smoothed and pinned heavily and stared the machine quilting .

Four more hours later! And it’s laying a lot flatter, it was slow going so that I did not pucker it more.

Well the crosshatch quilting worked, it’s laying nice and flat, had to sew a few tucks in to get the bad pucks out but it looks really nice,  it took me 6 hrs to ge5 to this stage as I have to smooth each little area as I go but it’s been worth it to see it becoming some thing that many would like to have now. Hopefully I will finish it tomorrow.

Made the centre of Queens Garden the night the pattern was released, I just had to make it, such a stunning centre.

I could not leave it alone LOL

All ready to be machine appliqué .  If the rain stays and I loose the internet again I might get it done next week?

Each evening this week I have done 3hrs of hand quilting on my 1930 GMFG. Notice how some of the green fabrics have faded so much, dark green are cotton poly and have not faded.

Som e kind of borer battle about 3inchs long very h and shell.

First number all the pieces of the rose, also add a mark that tells you this is the front of the rose and if placed on the front side of the fabric will give you the rose as you see it, if placed on the back of the fabric it will be reversed.   Cover flower with press and seal it will stick and not move if you do it carefully and press with your hands.  Use a fine permanent marker and draw all the pieces adding seams where needed, you will ahve to lift the press and seal constantly to get the shapes that need seams.  see below how I have the shapes.  make sure you number and add any memory marks.

Traced  all my pieces on to the Press’nSeal, these now need to be cut apart with very sharp sicissors roughly,  then placed on to the top of the fabrics you want to use for your rose?

Press and smooth the press and seal with your hands only.  Cut out roughly from material then care full with very sharp scissors cut the pieces out .

First Cut out pieces very carefully and smoothly, my first two pieces ready to be ironed down using a Teflon sheet.

My pattern paper is pinned over a mini ironing board. Added my top pieces and those bottom pieces first then added the rest. I pinned the pieces in place behind the printed paper is a mini ironing board

Rose all ready to fuss together then use on the quilt border.

I can use it any time now, now I need to make 3 more like this one and and then make some others in reverse or differnt roses?????

This wa# handed in to the shop with some bad stains and this large hole,  all hand embroidered roughly 100 years old, I would not let them chuck it and brought it home around 5 or 6 years ago,  I came across it on Friday  when I was  sorting boxes in the  attic,  I was emptiing  3 large plastic containers.

Cut away centre first leaving almost 1/2 an inch in the centre of the last row of blanket stitch.

ironed and taped down this small. Appliqué table cloth.

PLaced cut away area over the small cloth, pinned the basted the oval in place

this was the damaged area lucky it had not gone in to that blanket stitch row.

Machine satin stitched over original hand stitchs using a wider width stitch worked beautifully.  MY  second UFO finished  for 2018 but not on my list of 18 LOL

Of course this is not true to Esther’s design Morning Glory as I’m Zig Zaged out after LE and  so I’m using Esther’s scallops from one of her other designs her beautiful design Hearts Desirer First two scallop borders with iron-on fussing placed in place for my Morning Glory BOM with Esther Aliu 1 of 3 BOMs she has released this year for the price of 1, great bargain.

On point as it will be in the quilt top. Need to add the corner pieces now.

First corner and happy with fabrics first time,  yes these are the same as in the pattern LOL.

ALl  corners  made up. Need to add a iron on light weight stabiliser to back of my centre backing  material before I start the appliqué plus do the stitching to centre it.

As it will look in the quilt top on point. . Can not wait till Feb for the centre appliqué design. I’m baste stitching the directional lines this morning.

Doing some Hand quilting on my 1930 GMFG it’s Kingsize so I feel like I’m getting no where.  Not using a hoop just curled up and doing it in my lap very soothing thinking about the lady or ladies who made all these tiny hexagons nearly 100 years ago.  I have a poisoned leg so need to keep it up so getting a lot of quilting done.

One of my mums I dug out last week? Love love those thread colours but will I ever work on it?

WOuld love to finish this Pola Bear cross stitch a beautiful animal  I have all ways been in love with.

NOt so keen on a CAR!!! But it is so close to been finished I’d love to finish it for the unknown needle women as the workmanship is beautiful.

yes a definite to finish these are adorable.

IVe all ways loved Irises so yes I must finish this beautiful book mark for the unknown embroider.

Beautiful hand made antique table cloth, had this for about 6years and when I saw it again on Friday a light bulb moment went off and I knew what to do with it

FIrst I cut away the centre leaving roughly just under 1/2inch from satin stitch oval.

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Finishing the last rings

My first UFO finish for 2018 finished on the 3rd of Jan 2018

ALl ri gs now completed and it’s in the WIPs pile to be quilted?

These are 7panels I bought in a Opp Shop they are so heavy, did not realise till I arrived home and really looked at them that they are made from rubber backed curtain fabric???  So had no idea what to do with the A’s they would be far to hot and would sweat as a bed quilt. So I put them in the two hard box LOL. Saw them in the attic on Friday and thought they would make a great beach blanket, no lining just as is but far to big so making  two beach blankets.

Working out how to place them?

Ok lets make 2 instead of 1!

FIrst one made, over locked these together so no raw edges under neath , overlooked all around the edges and I have my first Beach blanket, water proof and sand proof and another UFO done for 2018 but again this one is not on my list of 24!,

My Happiness quilt. Made by Denise in the USA

My first challenge for 2018 I’ve been  working on it each day, so far Iv’e done at least an hour and now I only have one ring to do WOW I’m very happy LOL

I have 3 more of these wee blocks to have enough blocks to finish quilt top, I was hoping to finish this quilt top before last year but it went to quickly, did this one last night nearly finished it, takes me two hrs to appliqué quilt one of these centre on.

Steam pressed it last night and it is laying perfectly flat.  Interesting seeing the first rings to the last ones, I sure learnt a lot about my machine and tension a great way to start machine applqiue  sewing as I normally only do hand sewing!

My tables are back, two over head hanging lights and a very large ceiling fan how spoils can you be.

My DGS resorting a wee vintage child’s sewing machine this morning Vulcan made around 1940  to 1950. It was mine

IN pieces all been cleaned and polished.  Afterwards he made a wee bag using it, he was fascinated with how it was built and worked.

MY eldest DGD aged 4 she is 18 now and I’m about to teach my youngest DGD 4 how to use it to make her first wee quilt.

He will turn in to a very large beautiful butterfly after eating all my leaves from my plant!

He’s 3inches long now.

DGS cleaning the carport roof for me This morning before the wet starts it was 33C and very dry.

tStart to assemble these two Stack and Slash blocks. My design.

Quilt my Nancy tree 🌲 quilt. My design

Complete my mums hankie QAUG top. My design.

Work on this darling cross stitch I started 25 years ago and miss placed LOL Such lovely colours.

My Hearts Desire by Esther Aliu A BOM from 8 years ago!

The Secret Garden by Esther Aliu 2017 BOM

A Fan stack and Slash my design.

Finish machine satinstitching down these circles. My design

Work on this lovely BOM of Esther Aliu’s

Do some hand quilting on this top. My design

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I have managed to applique the centres on to 1/4 of the outer ring over the last week but thats all

My antique Crazy Quilt

Little Hazel designed by Esther Aliu. Finally hand appliquéd my black bias around my outer circle it took me 3 1/2 hrs ????? This is just the centre !!!!

2016 challenge 365 quilty circles. Sew my last 90 tiny squares to make another quilt.

I made these wee 4patches in to 16

Was not happy with the large plante is unpicked part of it and added more padding

These blocks are just placed on yards of black fabric would like to make them in to a quilt top

some 1930 wee blocks I’ve been fixing, adding too and cutting to 4 1/2 inches. Need to start joining them.

Opening up some stack and slash blocks that have been stored for around 10 years?  What fun Ive had looking at these!!!!  Glad wrap removed.

Black pieces lifted off and laid out.

slashjed pieces lifted off and also laid out.

Ive taken one 1/8th pile and set them out to make a kaleidoscope what an IMPACT they make.  I have done this dozens of times and it still surprises and delights  me.

Noe add those pieces of black to make my kaleidoscope in to a square!

To my delight I found another set Id prepped,   I’d for gotten they were there?????

One set of my oriental fabrics WOW!!!!!!

adding the first black pieces I would sew these on first.

Then I would sew on the next 4 pieces to give me large triangles, then Id sew the two different sections together., Hmm I will take some more photo for you it will be easier to understand LOL

With the triangles you can swap them around one end of the triangles placed in to the centre

Same block of triangles but the green end of the triangle on the out side?   There is no way you would think they were the same triangle unless you are a kaleidoscope fanatic may be LOL

another set of triangles

same set but reversed!  Look closely and you will see this.

I lost an hour  playing here this morning.

Take 3 wine glasses fill them with Christmas baubles turn them upside down and you have a lovely table centre.

Take 3 large glassesfill them with marbles and candles and You have candles for the Christmas table!

When Im hunting for some thing I love finding UFOs like this one ?  I’ve not seen this fo r about 25years LOL All the threads were there plus a pit of needles!  And a very fragile pattern.  Notice the quilt it is hiding under I knew nothing about quilting back then!!!!!????

2days before I found this in the attic I had brought home a free standing tapesry wooden frame that was broken and I’d just finished repairing it!  It now has my cross stitch on it and I will work on it in 2018 as one of my 12 challenges.

This amazing Hand embroidered table cloth came home in the wash this week, I’ve managed to remove all the stains except one and it’s not really noticeable any more, I can see this quilted I think it would be lovely as a single quilt top. Pressed and quilted it would be the perfect present for some one.

Close up, the embroidery is so perfect It took a while to work out the front from the back.

I bought these two sarongs the other day all I could see was quilts LOL. I thought they would be great to practice machine quilting on? They are rayon so may be a challenge for me?

Both would make Great Wall art.

Nancy sent me some Thimble-it pads this week in my Christmas card,  oh I could hug her they are WONDERFUL I can work twice as fast if not f aster using them, it’s like working with out a thimble but no picking of the finger undneath my work when quilting .  It felt so much part of me after several hrs quilting I forgot to take it off and woke up with it still stuck there on my index finger.

I accidentally cut the right hand border just over a1/4 to short!!! It took me 2hrs to solve the problem,  by share fluke I found a 1/2inch scrap the matched all most perfectly, joined it with a 16th inch seam, but Iunpicked may be 8 times and that corner square is all bias seams not an easy fix LOL.

At last my Tree is finished and I will be able to hang  it as is this year before Christmas Day LOL. I’ve added a black floating edge around the centre before adding the border to make the border look more like a frame.

Found him upside down in my wash basket this morning!

Had to make this barrier to keep my neighbours dog from peeing on the wee lawn and killing it. She’s very annoyed with me LOL

Hubby put the deck chair in the water for me to lye on when my back gets to sore?? Works really well.

Vanilla pods ready for picking and drying.

After 7 years it still flowers every day for me.

A kilo of fruit so It will make a good size cake. It sure smells good and tastes even better LOL.  It is now or was two Christmas cakes LOL

Sun  filtering through the trees just after sunrise.

YES the wee folk live here?

and grow their own veggies?

My herbs are growing like weeds?

SPider orchid.

Close up of the spider Orchid.

This little fellow was inside this morning so caught him with my shirt and put him back out side, he looks l8ke a shrimp???

Just waiting to have it’s borders sewn on then I will hang it as is for Christmas at my entrance.

All appliqué down, after doing all those points my machine appliqué control is much improved LOL.

Working on Hearts Desire by Esther Aliu it was a beautiful mystery BOM around 7 years ago and I have been working on it ever since LOL. Remaking the scollop borders as I had used freezer paper back then but since then wash away freezer paper has come in and I think it will add a lot of body to the quilt as it is all silk, not to sure how I will go quilting through it though!!!

Prepping the silks with interfacing. Black on the right ready to use the other red and black pieces waiting for the interfacing.

This red silk is very fine and soft but with the interfacing ironed on it becomes very manageable.

Redoing scoolped edgems for the out side border of Hearts Desire first 4 I made 6 years ago with freezer paper and if I used it now I would have to remove it after appliqueing down, so removing it and adding washawayfreezer paper which can be left in, much quicker plus will add a ni ce weight stabilise to the quilt, not sure how difficult it will be to quilt though? First row at bottom is the old freezer paper I’m using to draft new scallops out of wash away freezer paper. Row above cut out silk fabric with interfacing ironed on.  3 row scollops with washaway ironed on , top scollops all ready to be appliqué to the black silk border.

What my border will look like I think LOL. I have 4 of these borders to make, so many hrs, days, and weeks of hand sewing here.

This gives you an idea how this outer border is built up in silks.

My first QAYG block using the beautiful embroidery I saved from a old table cloth . Built up with Appliqué then embroidery.  Most of the appliqué fabric has faded a great deal.

For some reason the wee brown leaves bothered me on these lovely old pieces so I pulled my silk paints and started to play???

And play some more, no more brown leaves?  Then I added a very thin out line in pink around the appliqué pink flower to highlight the shape, I’m happy with the way it looks now.  

Picked up in an opp shop last week with the original price tag still on it,  I have a friend who likes green!!!  So it will be in the post to her as soon as possible for her to cut up and make a bag or something in patchwork???  ??

First I cut this fabric and added iron on fussing to it.

Next I added the dark green Thai silk fabric

So I need 4 triangles to make this work!

I then added a 1/4 inch black bias strip to either side of the coloured fabrics as a frame and it now looks like its part of the quilt not covering up holes LOL

Before and

After!!!!!

Here I have some more fabric cut out for applique?????  Plus I want to make the top a little higher so I can work my star????

Added 4inchs extra fabric plus triangle.

Now we have a a Christmas Tree wall quilt coming alive.

Looks a bit like a dancing  Lady Tree now LOL  She is called Nancy!

Monday evening I have been appliqueing more drops down only 9 to go, and I sliced up my star fabric to iron down Nancy’s crown for machine Applique Im having so much fun.

Tuesday. Daylight photo taken as the sun creeps in to the room, it does show the true colours of the fabric up much nicer than night lights.   Only 5 petals to appliqué down now

I have a Swarovski  Star I think I will hang above the top of the tree. I’ve drawn this on a piece of paper around 40inchs by 36inchs so my tree had to be that bigLOL  I first drew a very light triangle, point at the top then drew my trunk line,  .added some big drops then medium one and finally smaller ones till I felt that was enough.  If you look closely you can see I kept changing some of them?

I saw a Xmas tree like this years ago so if any of you know or recognise my memory tree please let me know so I can give them the credit, Suzy has a tree just like this one on her link with Esther this week so I must have seen the picture yesterday.

I spent over 1 1/2 hrs cutting the batiks in to square or oblong shapes then ironed fusing to the back of them all and have now started to cut out the shapes the fun part LOL. I’m using Glad wrap cling and seal to make up my shapes will show a photo of how I do that.

IT is so warm and humid the shapes are curling and rolling up, so weighing them down with rulers.

Using. The press and seal to draw my templates, using a permanent black marker, I now will lift the press and seal off the paper and press on to the top of my prepared fussed fabric and cut out the shape, very quick and actuate.i

After I have cut out the shape I number the back of the  shape and place it on my paper template.

THose two templates are now back on there numbers.

Slowly  she grows what fun this is. You can see that my trunk line end at the bottom in a drop shape. I think I will make a gold or silver bias for that part.

DRop is back on the bottom of the trunk.  Some Shapes look strange it’s because they start to curl when I leave the rulers off them it’s so hot and humid.

thats it for my day hope I can spend some time ironing these shapes to backing fabric tomorrow.  Making two fruit cakes for Christmas and this tree took all my time today!.  See you tomorrow may be LOL .

Here I have cut out the trunk so I can mark my fabric I will use for it.

IVe used some silver silk Obi belt fabric for the trunk. I’m

My Tree is called Nancy, and she looked naked with out a Star so have made one from the same fabric as the trunk?

i keep changing and adding!!!!!

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And changing!  I have to keep the rulers on as I work as it’s so humid.

A quick photo with out the rulers, you can see the colour of the fab rich clearly here no reflection from the rulers.  I’m sure I will change pieces but this is roughly what it will look like.

A kilo of fruit so It will make a good size cake. It sure smells good and tastes even better LOL

Why not use those fancy stitches if you have them? Block on the left I was quilting down the borders and watching Ricky Tims, back block a finished QAYG block under the sewing machine I’ve just used a pretty stitch to add strength to my block.

Backing fabric which wrap es around to form the front border is Japanese grass linen very strong but light, very fine linen hankie of my mums from around the 1960 1970,  a wee Dresden plate using reproduction prints.  Using a cotton batting.   What a difference these wee decorative stitches are going to make to how this quilt will ware.

Adding the fancy stitching has also inhanced the back and given it some personality.  Now of course I will need to do it to all 20 blocks LOL

A long way to go before I can think about joining my pieces up, but I hope to have My centre completed before 2018?

Where I stopped last night!

These flowers have kept me away from all other parts of SG and and thing else the last month but I think I will finish the centre before 2018.

Such beautiful needle skills in these precious pieces,  tonight I will need to do the larger pieces.  These need to be put away flat or rolled around a thick tube, not folded like the had been?

Where I’m sitting while I write up my blog this morning?

UNfortunitly the sandflies found me and  drove me inside .

Sadly I think the fish, tadpoles and other creatures living in the pond ate all the eggs before they had time to hatch, it it happens again I will rescue the eggs and let them hatch then release them back in to the pond as there are not a lot of these frogs around now.

Flowerball completely open now, How I love this treat twice a year.

At the moment we have splashes of colour every where.

perfect shape for a appliqué flower! P

A unusually coloured Brom.

A very strong coloured Brom

stunning colour, these are growing like weeds this year.

THen there are months when we have nothing flowering and I have wee creatures scattered amongst the foliage but our neighbours young dog has demolished all but 3 of the wooden ones he’s only a pup and has free roam of our garden and they have made good chewing bones, I will wait till she is older before replacing them!

My  borderie  perse flowers finished I love doing the embroidery on them. Edges all buttonhole stitched and rest is done with stemstitch one of my favourite stitches.

I have placed the same flowers beside the finished flowers so you can see the difference after pencil painting and thread painting them!!!

Have added my next 3 flowers and have started to thread paint the saffron flower.

This is a area I have spent many many hrs cleaning up ready for the wet season that starts in Dec.  yes that is a surfboard seatLOL.

My young raintree I just love her and her roots she is around 30feet tall.

A large helliconia in full flower which will last month and months then the plant will die.

A stunning helliconia flower that the honey birds love

Every day since it start3d to flower 10 years ago my water Lilly gives me a new flower each day

My herb garden this morning it is so lovely to be able to just pick fresh herbs each day.

Our sunrises around 5.15am have been so beautiful this week.

What I woke up to this morning we had heavy rain in the night and the trees are so great full for it, I will not have to water the garden for a week or too now.

I remember my art teacher telling me when I was about 12 that there were more greens in the trees than we could count, looking down on to these trees on Saturday morning with the sun hitting som3 of the I was spell bound by all those different greens?  100s and 100s of them.

Every year for the last 20 years this bulb sends up these beautiful round red ball flowers that never cease to mazy me, this one is 1/2 open the centre is still to open.

A insect chewed through the stem of this one so I have the joy of it on my kitchen window sill.

This lovely piece of art was given to me on Sunday by a local artist, it is a very early pastel drawing of hers and I fell in love with the colours it is of the Kimberley’s in WA  and every time I walk past it I’m stopped by it.

Just spotted in my pond, a local  striped marsh frog hatching  of eggs.  Below in the close up photo you can see the tiny babies just growing

Will keep you posted on their development this is a first for us.

What I was working on last week.  A little more sewn before she gets put away again LOL

Hearts Desire by Esther Aliu 

Hearts Desire block by Esther Aliu have to reprint my pattern all 70 odd pages as I have missed placed the pattern!!!!!! Bottom flower will have to be replaced pins have rusted?

What happens when you put blocks away with pins in here, top pins are ALL rusty and have marked my fabric!

I need to remake these petals that make up one of the flowers on my block? Rushed upstairs to see if the other blocks still had pins in them but I’d thread have thread basted not used pins thank goodness.  

Back of a vest I made after doing a knitting course with Kay Fassett in NZ  about 30 years ago???? It  has come back to be remade as front of vest has worn out and top area needs to be redone as well.   !!!!!

All worked on tapestry fabric then stitched to the back of a commercial made vest.

ANZ quilt top I’m adding circles to

I did not realise just how many spools of cotton I would go through???????  Top area almost completed.

How do I make this from

This?  Choose a busy design cut it out around 14inchs square the cut out 9 or 12 identatacal pieces of fabric and stack  them above each other in the same position.   Then use a very sharp large rotary cutter and slash through all these layers of fabric 9 times I cut mine first in to a fan shape then slashed it in to 8 strips I ended up with 8 piles of fabric strips which I then placed out on the table as you see below.

bottom right we have the original pattern I choose, middle a pile of strips laid out ready to sew together.  Left bottom finished fan made up and appliqué to a 14inch pieces of black fabric.

lilic strips added and base.

Orange  fabric folded and then cut on the fold so I do not have a raw edge on the out side of the fan .

Completed appliqued fan block .  I need to make another 3 up to give me the centre of a new quilt top!!!!

Spent a lot of time on my Secret Garden centre of the mystery BOM for 2017 by Esther Aliu. Only the stems appliquéd on and I did those by machine the rest will be hand appliquéd. Need to remake the yellow centre.  

Changed the very centre loved it but it did not work with the rest of the quilt to much orange,  so back to the original yellow but remade it. Why thats a long story but lets just say it felt like rubber and I can not get a hand needle through it LOL.

My centre flowers looked muddy from a distance so pulled out some paint pencils I’d been given recently and started adding some yellow what a difference it has made to my centre,  the white are no longer look like holes from a distance.

Ive missed placed 4 of these wee triangle and thats why I’m finding lots of UFO’s I’d forgotten about LOL  I’m still working on these wee triangles they take hrs and hrs to make just one. I sure hope I find my missing 4 and don’t have to remake them?????

Oct 31st saw the realise of the lay out for  The Secret Garden mystery quilt so I was able to assemble the parts I’d completed I’m very happy  with the way it is turning out it has been such a joy to make this quilt top every stitch I have enjoyed. lots of challengers which I thrive on.

I filled in another circle!

SO another block finished and only ????? to go LOL

I had to put these blocks away as we had visitors from France then Brisbane but they are back on the bed since near the end of Oct and I have been working on one of the blocks!

Came across my Peaceful pathways by Esther Aliu came out over 67 years ago,  this time I managed to sew my centre together and so now I can move on with this delightful quilt top.

Finally a whole centre I don’t know why I procrastinated over the final seams on this as it went together so well.?????

My corners are embroidered by hand and I loved making them up.  Ive all ways enjoyed red-work.

I made another QAYG 1960’s hanky block they are growing and if I’m lucky will have them made by 2018.

Managed to applqiue down several more circles but boy does it hurt my back doing these circles the constant turning and shoving the top through a narrow throat on my Janomi is a killer.

This is the centre of Peaceful Pathways

Opening the storage bag that has perished over the years!!!!!

Two halves that have been waiting to be joined and for some reason I kept putting off doing it ????

This morning I did it and it went together like a piece of cake so happy with it why was I so scared to join those halves?????

Next I pulled out the lovely sayings!!!!

One 1/4 of the centre

Love this design so much.

The lovely embroidered blocks were made for me by Bunny from Canada who is a moderator on Esther’s BOM group so they are very special

My corners were hand embroidered and silk hearts but I felt the block was too dark?

So I added a smaller cherry red heart and what a difference it has made.

Well I have sewn one seam this time LOL

My Secret Garden is still with me LOL  I have placed the pieces I ahve so far made to get the feel how it is going to look.  

I felt my flowers were been over shadowed by the terrace colours?  I recently were given some paint colouring in pencils so out came the yellow and my yellow flower was given a face lift!!!!!!! LOL

Then one of my blue flowers was given the same treatment what a difference a day makes so now I have to paint the others too!!!!! May be this avo they will get done?

Another QAYG hanky block finished only 4 to go I think?

4.45am Dawn

7am

Where I was up to last week on Esther’s SG centre !!!!  I have to remake my centre as it like a piece of leather two many layers of fabric and glue, I can not get away with my mistake I made ironing it to the ironing cloth LOL Plus I hate the machine applqiue in the dead centre but it was the only needle that would go through all the thicknesses!!!!!

I may completely change my centre of this block, will wait till all the blocks and placement are revealed and then decide!!!!!!!  Not using this but tried it????

Update  Placement of my blocks that I have completed so far 2nd Nov 2017

Start of   a challenge that was to be  only a black and white quilt top with leaves of 3 countries mine were Canadian maple, Papua New Guinea heart leaves and Australian gum leaves.  It ended up with coloured butterflies coming out from the centre and flying off the sides of the quilt top after the challenge was over.  I love colour LOL  !

Finished and has gone to Japan 2007

For a friend in NZ  My advance sample blocks I use to teach?

Made for a friend in France 2000

A baby quilt I made 20 years ago.

Made for a friend in Japan in 2002

Start of a Quilt top I made for a friend in Vienna who loves very strong colours.

I was playing with my centre of my centre of Esther’s SG it was a lot of fun but it was to strong!

I was so sorry it was to strong as the fabric is 100% silk and so beautiful

Stunning centre but not for here!

Making more petals and more petals?

Cut out 36 more wee yellow drops for the petals for my SG triangles this morning!

For a change I’m making another of my Mother’s 1960’s hanky QAYG blocks I do love making these.

I have made the background block and now to add a 1930’s reproduction fabric Dresdenplate .

Back of block made from a very fine linen kimono fabric  81/2 inch blocks.

Outer edges all quilted down.

One more completed QAYG hanky block, I’m suing a lovely 100%wool batting in these so they are so light and soft when finished.

After we went through a 11hr electrical storm the longest we have ever known my little dog for 24 hrs after wanted to be picked up all the time and sit on my lap?????   It was a couple of weeks ago now but they are still cleaning up after it and fixing people landlines and phones.

Dawn over the river and range How quickly the light changes at dawn here?

Taken About 2 mins later from the same spot???

Dawn just breaking at 5.15am this morning.

Pink Ginger flower heads stunning colours and flower heads.

Close up they look like they are made of wax but are real!!!!!!

My orchids survived the storm!

Have taken a beating from the storm and lost  a lot of colour, but they will recover quickly.

Tomatoe plants double in size with all the rain? Lots of vegetation but no tomatoes!!!!!

Stunning colour and texture.

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He was nearly 6inchs long!

Found him in my room covered in dust so caught him and put him out side on the tree trunk.

Found him sitting in side one of the fold up patio chairs after the storm.

Back in the garden where he belongs.