Showing posts with label Civil War Quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War Quilt. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Park Avenue

is the name of the UFO I am now trying
to finish, using delious Park Avenue by
3 Sisters for Moda.

It has been in this state for MONTHS.....

This is what I have to deal with


and what it should look like when finished


I now have 43 Civil War blocks done



so that means I have until Saturday to get the remaining 5 blocks done.

Very do-able I think

Tonight I am going to start block 6 of

In My Garden, Love making this quilt

and only 3 blocks to go after #6 is finished :)




Monday, November 28, 2011

On my Must do list

A couple of weeks ago I ordered myself a
just released at Houston book


all because of this quilt, I love it,
its high on my list of must make quilts


meanwhile I finished Block 5, except for the

'rails n nails' and some diamonds on the left


and I have some applique to do for my Civil War Quilts






they are on tonights stitching list in front of the tv

you never know I might even get to start block 6


Sunday, November 27, 2011

36

Civil War quilt blocks are
now completed

Yesterday the weather man was spot on

we got 57 mm's of rain in just under 24 hours

perfect stitching weather

the girlies watched movies

I got to sew ALL DAY


sorry about the 2 photos but this is what my design wall
looks like at the moment and blogger won't post them
side by side for me :(

I need to change the 2nd row # 6 block
the background needs to blend in a
bit more, atm it sticks out.

Today was a gorgeous if not windy day
so
I weeded a garden bed today and we now have a
small vege patch with

sweetcorn
2 x chillies
2 x capsicum
snow peas
lettuce
bok choy

and then in another bed we have 4 different varities
of tomatoes.

I have also finished block 5 of
In My Garden

I am just adding the fence 'rails and nails'
the palings are all done and so is the gate

Friday night I stitched all the embroidery on the other 4
blocks, and added the needleturn bits that hadn't been done

dh printed some patterns for me at work yesterday
I also found the pattern online for a quilt I started at the begining
of the year, using yummy Park Avenue fabric, the original pattern went awol
in the move so I printed it
off and tomorrow will pull out all my bits and see where I am
up to, after the house gets a good clean between the rain, the dog
and the kids its much needed :)





Friday, November 25, 2011

It's Catch Up time

for me this weekend

its supposed to be wet and miserable so
that means it PERFECT sewing weather

and what am I catching up on

my Civil War Quilts quilt

I have 23 of the blocks sewn, 2 cut out ready
to be sewn and I have just spent the last 2 hours
printing off the remaining 22 blocks that I haven't made



If you would like to make the quilt, Barbara will be leaving all
the blocks and instructions on the CWQ blog until
July 1 2012 then they will be removed.

There are only 6 more blocks to be posted

So I have better get sewing .

Oooooh I finally finished the house last night
and started on the fence......

only 19 more palings to stitch and the gate......