Sunday 29 April 2012

a quick catch up

Oh I am so sick of this weather!  The only upside is that a) my garden is looking lush and b) its a good excuse to stay inside and sew.

I havn't really been doing anything major, just little bits of things:
I have made some more of these, but have kind of come to a halt as I don't really have much of another colour to make any more: I want to go with red, so will put this to one side for now (and start buying red fabric!!)



I have been making a few more of my hexies (this is about half of them) and then playing around to see what I want to do with them: they look too much all sewn together, so I need to space them out, but still not sure where I am going with this project!


I got a fab book from the library the other day, 'Simply Stars, quilts that sparkle' that has some amazing quilt patterns with stars-a lot of them are paper pieced. I wondered if I could hand sew them as well, so decided to do a test run with some scraps.  Not sure what this will be made in to when done, or whether I really could do a whole quilt like this, but it is fun to do in the evenings when I'm watching telly

 And I am still hand quilting my mystery quilt - I really love this quilt. 
 I have gone around or through most of the stars now - with the exception of the big red and yellow one in the bottom right corner (not sure how to do that one)
 I am using a variagated perle cotton, which I really like, and just doing different things for different stars.  I am sewing yellow stars on the green border too, but not matter how I tried, I just couldn't get a good photo of that.
So, the rain is helping with my quilting too: I am plodding away slowly on different projects!

10 comments:

  1. Sometimes rain can be handy. It eliminates so many other activities and allows us to sew to our hearts content without any guilt.

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  2. I love the quilting on your mystery quilt! It's such a bright cheery quilt! Hope you get some red fabric soon because that piecing is amazing!

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  3. Those are such beautiful projects, each one. And I am hoping that you will have some sunny days too.

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  4. Love the look of the pink star!

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  5. Great progress C! Sounds like every cloud has a silver lining. Jxo

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  6. So excited to see you are hand quilting the Mystery Stars - it's looking fabulous.

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  7. I wish I could send you some sun but we don`t have any either! Lovely projects Catherine.

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  8. Great to know the weather isn't slowing your sewing! =D

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  9. well considering all those great projects, yeah for rain!!

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  10. Gosh! You have been doing so much and it all looks totally amazing and inspiring!

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