My Week in Pictures

                     

                           

I stitched all the stems on Bring Me Flowers that I had missed

                           

The final four alternate blocks for Bring Me Flowers, which I had to reverse sew 

and re-stitch so they were right 

                           

I've made good progress on my Steam Punk blocks

                           

Bring Me Flowers at the start of the sewing together marathon

                           

Just needs its borders

                           

More Steam Punk blocks

                         

                         

1 border down, 3 to go to finish Bring Me Flowers

 (I have 2 borders to go as of today)

                         

2 borders waiting to be sewn together

                         

I sourced this gorgeous pattern, it's called Irish Circles 

and is by Karen Cunningham, I'll be ordering it this week

                         

Another steam punk block missing it's centre circle though, 

and there is another block finished no photo of it yet though 

I think that takes my Steam Punk block tally to 28

                         

The beginnings of Jen Kingwells 2014 mystery BOM run by 

Amitie Textiles which I have been collecting

                         

And some more of month 1

                         

All stitched together (and unironed) today while I was on the sidelines at soccer

                                   

I found this fabulous book/magazine before soccer, 

there are a couple of projects I want to make

                       

and that's my week in pictures, 

I wonder if I'll get as much done this week

Green Tea and Sweet Beans

Was a BOM offered by Amitie Textiles way back in 2008/2009

I was very new to the quilting world but I knew that

one day I would have to make this quilt.

Early last year I was alerted to the fact that the

GTSW BOM patterns had been made into a 

retail pattern booklet and it was on sale

I jumped in and bought the pattern, once it arrived I had a 

read saw that it was a hand pieced mammoth and filed

the pattern away into the way to hard basket, as there was

no way I was going to be hand piecing a whole quilt

unless it was 100% appliqué.

Over the weekend, I found myself home alone (very unusual 2 on a cub camp

the other at a birthday sleepover, the hubster at golf) and as I had spent my

morning decluttering, cleaning and scrubbing, I wanted a new

hand project to work on, my options were 

Gossip in the Garden by Annie Downs

or 

Green Tea and Sweet Beans by Jen Kingwell.

I phaffed around unable to make up my mind,  then while

dinner was cooking I decided the GTSW was it, so I prepped 

appliqué block 1 and voila

 Block 2

Block 3

Block 4

Arrrgh hand piecing time, I had a practice and made a 4 patch

block so I was certain I could do it and yippee those little 

pinwheels are last nights achievment, the bottom one

does need a press.

 and the reverse side

here is the start of the day lily block

and that is where I am up to, I am trying to get a few of the blocks ready 

to stitch because in 2 weeks I am off to see my daddy and 

my brother, my brother is turning 50 and that is a milestone

I need to celebrate with him. He doesn't know I am coming

we told him that it was just too expensive 1 month out from

Santa visiting, but we would be thinking of him, 

but my daddy knows and I can't wait to see his face when 

we arrive at his party......

(I have been collecting text prints for the backgrounds, and it

will be made up from my stash, I may or may not

buy some different lush fabrics to add in)

11/4" hexagons are on the way so are 3" clamshells

they are looking like great things to stitch while

flying.