I got a bit busy in the sewing room over the weekend, not only cutting out Megan's double A-side quilt, but also tackling the brown batik challenge set by Charlotte while I was convalescing. It's taken me a while as I couldn't decide if the brown batik would drag down the lovely accompanying fabric in whatever I made, or if the lovely stuff would lift it to acceptability by association. Well, you tell me....
I used the FQ retreat goody bag, and a Google image for inspiration, which in itself was I think drawn from a Cluck Cluck Sew tutorial. I used Innocent Crush for the leaves and hand stitched them on with perle. I haven't decided yet whether to line the bag with a patchwork Innocent Crush made with the remains of the charm pack I have.
Today I went over to Charlotte's to pick up the Snow White fq, check the layout of the double A-side on her design wall..... oh, alright & to cuddle the puppy!
I took this photo of the Heather Ross side in the office at the weekend, and for some reason the proportions look odd, but trust me, in reality, they are fine! The gaps at top and bottom will have the Snow White fabric in them.
Much as I love this, I wasn't sure it would fill the requirements for a pink quilt, and so you may remember I did another side with Aneela Hoey fabrics which definitely fits the brief!! If you don't like pink, look away now!
Hopefully it will all work out - there may be extra sashing needed to make up for seam allowances etc, but fingers crossed it will all come together wonderfully!
So, that's what I've been working on this week, together with the raw circles hand quilting, which goes without saying!!
Linking up with WIP Wednesday on Freshly Pieced.
It's another lovely morning here today, although it's once again showing up the deficiencies in my photography skills! I thought for once I'd try and get my WIP linky post in early rather than last.
I'm STILL ploughing on with the hand quilting on the raw edge circles quilt. I am beginning to think I wish I'd taken up Charlotte's kind offer of a loaned darning foot so I could machine quilt it, as it's taking forever and my poor needle pushing finger is getting very sore!!
I have to admit, in between pushing the blunt end of the needle into my finger tip, I am loving the effect of the spirals. Last night after doing a few more in front of the telly, I decided to count up how many I'd still got to do.... 34!
Then after I went to bed and couldn't sleep, first I sent an annoyed email to an etsy supplier who is a month late sending out Sew Stitchy panels, then I worked out how many circles there were in total, so how many I had completed. I thought that would make the remaining 34 seem like small fry......
Until I worked out that 9 x 7 = 63 and therefore I've only done 29!!!!!!!! Oh, I could have cried. But, before I do any more, I WILL be investing in a thimble...
Anyway..... am linking up with WIP Wednesday on Freshly Pieced
(Oh, and this morning I had a reply from that etsy supplier, claiming that Moda were so busy producing another fabric line, they were late sending out the Sew Stitchy panels to everyone. Sorry, but do I look like I came down in the last shower???? I've seen the panels on blogs, and I doubt very much a company like Moda would allow that - with the number of lines they produce they'd never get anything shipped if the production of one stopped the shipment of another! )
