Sunday Stitchers #3 - Be My Neighbour - Progress

This month's MOJO/Challenge project is to finish the top of Be My Neighbour.

This is a quilt I worked on with the lovely Fiona.   Naturally, she has finished her quilt...well ahead of me.   She did hers in pretty Tilda fabrics - quite a bit different to mine . . .LOL   Look here.

I had the rows made and had thought I'd join them at a retreat in November last year . . . here.
But "strangely"   (well, maybe not for me) - the rows were not all the same length....no idea how they went wrong, but I couldn't be bothered checking. . . .I made a few adjustments and got the rows joined.

I was able to clip it to a quilt already hanging up, no floor space big enough to lay it out and no handy quilt holder upperer...

It's a big one - about 65" x 88"...so it may need to go visit a long arm quilter.

Be My Neighbour - September

The working team has been busy again and finished the last of the houses in my street.

Block 15

and block 16

Now it's time for the finishing crew to put it together and quilt it??

I have been working on this with Fiona - she is ahead of me and has her top together...she will probably get it quilted well before me!!  Nevermind - pop over here to admire her garden and her quilt top.

Be My Neighbour - August

The construction workers are were on schedule and have completed Blocks 13 and 14...two to go!!!
(I wrote this this post ages ago...)

As I often say, "Patterns are just a guide"...the pattern has a yacht for Block 14 - as I don't live near the water, it's unlikely I will see a sailing boat parked on the road...so I created a slightly different house.

Surely a House quilt should have a log cabin block?

Two blocks to go, the applique to do for the flowers and birds & put it all together by 30th September.   Got to love a deadline!

Fiona's blocks are here and here.

Be My Neighbour - July

I am working on this quilt with the fabulous Fiona - and she is always finished before me . . .but this time I was first cab off the rank.   No, it's not a race...it just suited me to work on this project and get Blocks 11 & 12 done.   (12/16 blocks done = 75%)

Block 11 was 6 separate small houses - so I selected some fabrics that represented things I like.  (Trees, Pansies, Sydney, Sewing Machine, Beach Houses and Family.)

Edited to add - Janet O said they are like windows to my soul.

  

 I will link up with Fiona - when she finally gets to these blocks...LOL.....just kidding Fiona!

SS Glenrose Retreat

I have just returned from a chilly retreat at Glenrose Cottages in Warwick.  Overnight temperatures were quite low (1 - 6 celsius or so) - and it was nice to have an electric blanket to warm the bed!

A bit of a recap on what the others did...

Alison was working on a quilt for her caravan - It will be made up of squares with caravans and surfboards and coordinating filler blocks.   I love these colours.

Sue made 4 of these coverlets for the hospital where she works.   A simple but effective pattern.

       

Lynda made a table runner, a shopping tote and a clam bag.

                                   

Sandi made 42 strippy squares for a DV quilt and a very cute doll.

            

Helen sewed the binding on a Double Wedding Ring Quilt for a granddaughter who is getting married in early July, partially made a doll (it is not fully birthed yet), and took up a dress for a daughter to wear to the wedding....

          

Chris made 4 placemats, several QLD & NSW "flags" to attach to dog collars, a few peg bags

    

Chris also worked on some plane blocks.  One had a bit of an oopsie - the tail section was not quite right...
Chris was a newbie to this retreat...and you know that means some sort of initiation must happen.  Chris also goes to bed early...that is a mistake!!!!!....a BIG mistake!!!!!

"We" (no single person to blame) decided to arrange the planes flying across the sky (design wall) and ending with a crash landing...

   

She took it all in good fun!

And me???

I made up 25 Orange Colourwash blocks

a baby quilt
(so hard to see the border against the design wall)

a panel for a DV quilt, 

Blocks 9 and 10 for Be My Neighbour.

I had taken them all to retreat, thinking I might join them into rows.  I didn't end up doing that, but I took advantage of the design wall to see how they look together.

I also made some crumb block sections that can be finished off later.

and sewed quite a number of 2.5" squares into pairs.

We had a lot of fun, solved a lot of the world's problems, and will return next year to repeat it all again.

Be My Neighbour - May

Blocks 7 and 8 means we are halfway through!

Fiona has hers completed too - and she has joined the top two rows - look here!

Be My Neighbour - April

I am a little late - these are the April blocks.

Fiona finished hers quite early as she had a busy family month.  Hers are here.

They are so different to mine...

Be My Neighbour - March

Continuing on with Be My Neighbour - these are the March blocks.

Fiona has posted hers here - and joined February and March to make a street...She is a funny lady!

Be My Neighbour - February

A while back...in 2024....I saw a quilt called Be My Neighbour - a freebie from Moda  . . .and I no longer remember how it came to be that both Fiona and I decided to make it.

I drew up a plan for us to follow - to keep it simple, I spread it over a year or so - we both have numerous other projects to work on.  So, basically, it is 2 blocks a month - 16 in all.  And we gave January a miss!

At some stage I found this picture of it:

And I've decided to follow the general colour scheme....not my normal way to go...but it will save a lot of "umming and aahing" over fabric selection.

They are big blocks - Block 1 is 18" x 18" and #2 is 15" x 18".
I can already anticipate that Fiona will do a great job of quilting hers...mine??   - we will we'll see...

February blocks are done:  (They were finished before the end of February - the post is a bit late.)

Fiona is working with Tilda fabrics and hers are here.