Saturday, April 15, 2017

My week

I made 10 more blocks for Mischief
My friend posted the little Klosjes to me so i put them together
There were another 2 with them but my friend had already sewn them together. I have 18 now. Still not sure i want to make a big quilt with them. :)

Back to my stitching after that
finished this block last night & started this one
Hopefully the next installment of Ice Cream Soda arrives Tuesday so i can get them done. I also need to prepare more Mischief blocks & the joining pieces.

Happy Stitching,



Saturday, April 8, 2017

FNwF, April

During the week i added the last 2 rows to my pink, green white EPP quilt. I was short 2 pinks & i went with a suggestion of finding a pink that would "blend" in. Thursday i cut all the squares to fill in the triangle gaps along the side. I added 1 row Thursday night. For FNwF i managed to get the last 3 side done.
It looks a bit odd as i haven't trimmed the squares back yet or added the pieces to the corner. I went with filling in the triangle gaps rather than applique to a border. I am still adding a border i just need to go shopping. :)

Earlier in the week i made these
I now have 29 shapes for Mischief. Still a long way to go to 100.

Pop over to lovely hostess Cheryll to find links to see who joined in last night & what projects they worked on.

Happy Stitching,

Saturday, April 1, 2017

My stitchy week

I've been stitching another Gail Pan Christmas project which i finished earlier in the week.
After that i prepared more blocks for Mischief
The black & which pieces are the joining pieces for the purple blocks.

After that i went with a suggestion of using a different pink fabric for the last 2 rows in my pink, green white epp quilt as the lady i bought it from was short 2 pieces. So now when i add the last 2 rows i've only green octagons left over. Yay.
The lozenge shape papers were really wrecked by the time i got this far so i was lucky i have a Lucy Boston quilt i could pinch some from. Just have to remember to put them back. :) I prepped all these for a trip away next week. Not sure if i'll be going now thanks to all the flooding from Cyclone Debbie.

I felt like adding embroidery to my projects & found up a cute Fig 'n' Berry project.
The red ran unfortunately & i had to soak it. I had a little though running around that the fabric looked a little different. Yes it does. Grrr. The pieces were a cream tone on tone but now after soaking the finished piece looks white. As the red runs the other 4 embroidery pieces will most likely look white too.

Thursday i didn't feel like either EPP or embroidery so what did i do. You guessed it i started another project. This time hand piecing. I've wanted to make these for years & as i've all the scraps out for Ice Cream Soda quilt i decided to make a start.
I've been making 3" Klosjes (spools). I mentioned that it might be just a table runner & a friend told me "no go for a big quilt".  She did & it's beautiful but hers is 60" by 60" & used 400 Klosjes. We'll see. She did however have some left over & is sending them to me which i greatly appreciate. As much as i love handpiecing it's slow going & 400 is quite alot.

Happy Stitching,





Saturday, March 25, 2017

My week....

.....was busy with the 8 blocks from part 2 of Icecream Soda quilt.
It's going to be a very scrappy quilt. I sure hope all the blocks work together we we find out how it all goes together.

Needed to have a change for a while so i traced out a stitchery to do.

They are 3 little Christmas hangings by Gail Pan.

Happy Stitching,

Saturday, March 18, 2017

FNSI March

No green sewing for me yesterday. :) I hope everyone had a fabulous Saint Patrick's Day

For FNSI i prepped blocks for my Mischief quilt. It will be an all purple quilt with the joining blocks(hopefully) in a white with black dragonflies & black with white dragonflies. I managed to get 3 full blocks & the 4th mostly sewn together last night.
Since my last post about the Mischief blocks i've made all these
I've a total of 20 blocks done. 80 left to go. :) I need to work on Ice Cream Soda quilt now as the pieces for the next 8 blocks have arrived.

During the week i managed to finish off this little stitchery.
Lovely pattern by Gail Pan called Garden Blooms.

Pop over to visit our wonderful hostess Wendy to find the links to see what everyone who joined in FNSI got up to last night.

Happy Stitching,



Monday, March 13, 2017

Epp quilt

I've gone as far as i can with this quilt, that is with the piecing. I added 2 more rows this week hoping for 4 but i discovered i was 1 pink piece short. Now my dilemma is do i add the white floral into the triangle spaces then border fabric or just applique top straight onto border fabric.

Happy stitching,

Saturday, March 11, 2017

EPPing along.

During the week i made 5 more blocks for my Mischief quilt. Totalling 7 blocks with the 2 from last weeks post. Just need about 93 more blocks now. :) I'm hoping i have enough purples to not use the same one twice but i don't think i have that many different purples. :)
Then i put Mischief aside to work on Icecream Soda.
All 8 blocks done before the next part arrives. They take so long these blocks. I was only getting 1 done a night until i started watching Netflix & then i'd get 2 done & a 3rd started. :)

Happy Stitching,

Saturday, March 4, 2017

New EPP project. March FNwF

Although my white fabric arrived for the project in the previous post i just haven't had a chance to get it cut up. I'd been working on a stitchery project whilst waiting for the fabric & EPP shapes to arrive but last night i made a start on a quilt called Mischief by Karen. The shapes arrived earlier this week. I managed to make almost 2.
Pop over to visit lovely hostess Cheryll to find the links to see what everyone who joined in got up to last night.

Happy Stitching,

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Slow going EPP

I'm still growing my EPP project. Last night i added the other half of the last row.
I then prepared the pieces for the next row
I'm not officially out of white pieces but there isn't enough left to do anything with. I was going to leave it there, add a border & maybe use it as a table runner but then i'd have a pile of green & pink shapes over. So i will go to Spotlight & my LQS & see if i can find a white homespun. I should have enough of the floral white for 2 maybe 3 rows more if i can find the white homespun. After that i think i need to do some embroidery or applique whilst i wait for my 2 new EPP projects to arrive though i do have another new one ready to start along with working on Lucy Boston. Time to work out a program to follow so it's jusy not all EPP. :)

Happy Stitching,

Saturday, February 18, 2017

FNSI February

Nothing exciting happened with my FNSI. I'm still working on my EPP project. I'm really trying to finish a project before starting anything new. I normally wouldn't sew a project this way but when you don't exactly have a pattern & no idea what was cut out by the lady i bought it from i have to wing it.
I managed to prepare all those little squares & sew on the row above them. I've figured i've enough to make it this size plus 1 more row on the bottom. Then i'm out of the white fabric & very little left of the white print. But i'll have heaps of the pink & green shapes left over. Maybe i could do a few more rows around using different white fabrics. I'll have to see as not very big even if i add a border or.

Pop over & visit Wendy, our very lovely hostess, to find links to see who joined in FNSI & what projects they worked on.

Happy Stitching,

Saturday, February 11, 2017

My latest project.

The EPP i started working on last week is slowly growing.
No much this week as i was out with a migraine for several days. I'm not sure how big this will be as i bought it in a destash. Partly started & the shapes all cut. I'm hoping it will be lap size at least. Thinking about it last night i'll have to see if i can find a similar white fabric to fill in the triangle shapes or just some border fabric to applique it down to.

Happy Stitching,

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