July SAL finish

I posted this one over at SAL but forgot to include it here:

This is from Natalie Birds' book Tis the Season - Chilly Penguin bag.
The stitchery was optional - so I left it out.
To me it was a bit small so I didn't want to make a big fuss of it.
I hand pieced the hexagons instead of paper piecing them - I haven't hand pieced for years so it was nice to do.

I made it from a Charm Pack I won  quite a while back.. I pieced the back and handles as well to use more of the fabric.

Silly Season - Susan Style

Silly Season is here.

No, I don't mean Christmas - this is my retreat time of the year.  I am the chief organiser - a glowing title - but really it  all comes together pretty easily these days.  But I do send regular emails to all the group - telling them 90 days, 80 etc etc, until  we got to one calendar month, 30 days and 4 weeks all within a few days!!!  So it then became a weekly count and now it's days (or sleeps!!! - nothing childish about us at all).

So now its 

10 sleeps.

July Finish

I aim to finish at least one UFO a month.

And if you don't know the drill:    I joined Sew Its Finished a couple of years ago to encourage me to do this - and this year I also joined up with Peg & Kris for OPAM  and to top it off Aunt Marti issued a challenge to finish 13 projects in 2013.  Marti picks a number and we are meant to have numbered the 13 projects and do that number in that month.  Well, this month I have had to cheat a bit.  The project this month should have been #8 and that was making a cushion out  of a piece of machine quilting I did way back - I mean really way back.... I will leave the details for now....so - off I went and bought some homespun for the backing and the cushion insert....Come time to make it....Where the heck is the piece of machine quilting???? I have searched and searched...it must be here...tucked away.... so I had to find another project.

This was started in....well maybe before 2005 (shame shame.....but wait til I find the machine quilted piece....).  The top was all done  - it was sitting in its little labelled box with the backing and binding already made.  

So, now I have a spare box...wonder what I will find to go in it???   Maybe my piece of machine quilting?

FNSI

My goal for Friday night was to turn this

into this

These blocks are for a Funky / I Spy Disappearing 9 patch and I hope to end up with two quilts about the size of a single bed.
So, adding these (18) to the ones I already have makes a total of 32 blocks.  I now need to cut them in 4 and then I can put at least one of them together when I am on retreat.
(Did I hear someone say 2 weeks and 6 days til I go??????????)

Off to the Coorparoo Quilt Show this afternoon.
If you are local its is on today and tomorrow ....

If photography is allowed, I will take lots & post later.

Thanks to WendyB for taking on the coordination/organisation.

FNSI - July

I'll be sewing along with a whole bunch of people for Friday Night Sew In...what will I work on??Not too sure yet - got a FEW thing to choose from.

Hope to see you there.

If you want to join in - pop over here.

Another Quilt Show

I know its that time of the year...but off we went to Buderim for the Buderim Craft Group's Quilt Show.

The Buderim Craft Group is a collection of a variety of groups and in November they have a Fair where all the crafters display and sell work, but in July it's the quilters who put on a show (and sell some things)

Here are a few things I especially admired...
(sorry another photo overload)

This is a lovely version of Leanne Beasley's Leanne's House quilt which I'd really love to make one day now that my Journey of a Quilter is nearly finished.

 and some close ups - Debby - who made this - is a crazy patchworker at heart - I got to talk to her and she said she would wake up in the middle of the night and think "Oh I could do that in that spot" - so this quilt has lots of buttons and beads.

(One of the reasons I like to go to this Quilt Show is the fact that my Aunt is a long standing  member of the group - including a long time as Treasurer - so she knows most of the quilters and introduces me to them.)

and  here is some detail of some stockings made by Debby 

 I thought this quilt was a good pattern for using bits and for a more manly pattern.

and a close up

I thought this was really quirky with the cats around the edges

 and a beautiful jacket

 this was stunning - this design was based on a tiled floor in Venice 

 and a few pictures I took - more for ideas - they go on the "haha if ever" list

and the final one - appliqued flowers in pale bali fabrics - of particular note is the interesting stripy fabric - a bali - used around the outside.

All in all - a fun day with my bestie and my Aunt.

Next quilt show...not far away (in time) - but closer to home.

FNWF - June

I think its a great idea to link up with Cheryll and a lot of others (49 when I checked) to have a Sew-In.  I would probably sew anyway - but knowing that I am sewing with others makes me keep going instead of stopping early.

The plan for this Friday was to add the other 3 borders to this quilt.

and I got that done - though I still need to finish the mitred seams.

I also had some prepping to do ready for my sewing get-together today.

I hope everyone else had a very productive night and are a tiny bit closer to finishing something. (Though I have to admit that the "prepping" part was for a new project - OMGosh - when will I stop??? - not for a while I hope.)

Pop over and have a look at what the others worked on.