Jelly Girl

Jelly Girl is finished, bound and blogable! Plus its dry enough outside to spread her out for a photo.

Next on the list, FQS Mystery BOM block 4.

Progress at Last!

I took some annual leave this week, giving me a 5 day break to do with what I wanted. It's poured with rain most of the time, so I've mostly stayed out of the garden and got in some decent sewing time.

Sassafras is all assembled, and appliqued. Just need to blanket stitch around all the shapes then it's ready for quilting.

I finally got around to quilting Jelly Girl (and got most of it done in one day). Just got the borders to go. I'm not too happy with the batting; it's much softer than the wool/poly blend which makes it hard to push around for free motion quilting. Lesson learnt!

BOM2 and a Jelly Girl

The second block of the FQS Mystery BOM took a while to get here, but I've finally got the second block together. This block has a lot of pieces! Possibly a little wonky too, that seems to happen when flying geese are involved no matter how careful I am, but I like it anyway.

I also put together the top for Jelly Girl; that was a lot of triangles! Went together fairly easily, but was made life a little difficult getting all those points to match! Probably won't start quilting this for a few weeks, as my neck/back has been playing up again and spending hours at the sewing machine doesn't help.

It was a little windy outside when I took the photo, so when the quilt blew back a little, you can see my lovely dog Millie to the right, eating grass as usual!

iPods, Spirals and Bindings

With half an hour fiddling around this evening, I managed to make a little quilted case to keep my iPod nano in. I usually use an iPod sock, but its been looking a bit shabby and I wanted something a bit more cute and funky. I've never made a bag or anything similar before, but didn't find this too difficult. I may end up putting in a bit of velcro to keep it closed if the iPod falls out, but I'll see how it goes.

I've been cutting and sewing like crazy for the past few days, and the spirals for "Jelly Girl" are coming along well. All the half spirals are pieced and ready to be stiched into rows. This is one before all the parts were sewn together.

And binding of Catch a Falling Star is coming along well; I'm only doing one side at a time, but its almost done. I think the brown turned out to be the perfect choice.