Thank You For Special Friends.

I must just thank a dear friend for a parcel she sent me and I received it today. I did not know about it so it was a huge surprise. Thank you friend for being such a wonderful person in my life and also may you receive many blessings from the Lord for being a caring friend. I have been too busy to do another block but have done some stitching on it. I have now got up to date with the magazine and now have to wait for the next issue to finish the last 3 months blocks.

This is my August mini quilt block and have to still put the beaded leaves in.

We had a quite day as the electricity was off for the afternoon. The rainy weather was lovely and still is raining but the house is too dark to do sewing or reading. So we spent the afternoon in front of the fire just relaxing. But this morning I got some painting in and started to paint the kitchen walls will continue tomorrow. When the electricity is off only does one then realize how dependant one has become.I have started the August block but have not been able to sew today.

This is July and the snowman is a square that I had bought long ago. The check fabric is leftovers from a pleated skirt that I had made for my daughter. It was high fashion when she was in grade 7 till 9.

Here is the next 3 months done. So now I am halfway and have started July.

As you can see I have finished the first 3 months mini quilt tops and am now busy with the next three months. They are looking great even though I must say so myself. I just love all the paper piecing of the different patchwork squares. Thanks to Craftwise magazine and the designer of these mini calender quilts.

Finished painting

This is my gollywog quilt. I made it with trying the logcabin pattern and then did the centre with the gollywogs. The are so cute, but the cats did not like their eyes and they chewed them off. The materials used are the shwe shwe prints from Da Gama textiles and they are lovely. Get them in all shades now. It was so great playing around with the logcabin squares as they can be arranged in any way that is pleasing to your eye. I had them on my Dbed and left them for a few days before deciding into what pattern to place them.

This is a mini logcabin quilt. It is 20cm square and the logcabins strips are small very small. I did it by hand as using the sewing machine would be too difficult.

I have finished painting my bedroom today and also got to wash the curtains and iron and hang them. So now my bedroom is completed. I also got to put the second layer of paint on the bathroom cupboard and now that is finished too. So now the bathrooms look great just need some new curtains. I am nearly finished with the February mini quilt and also have finished the applique paper on the May top.

Friends

I have a very dear friend for 22 years now and although we live very far apart we keep in contact nearly every week. She is truly an inspiration to me. She has taught me to take my sewing just that step further and out of my comfort zone and am I enjoying it. I seem to move forward or is it ahead a bit every time I make a item. I love magazines with all these lovely quilts that I see in them and really appreciate the artists who give us the patterns. I have finished painting another doorframe and also the bathroom cupboard and will do something every week till I am finished.

The next mini quilt top

This is the January mini quilt top and now I have finished 3. Am now busy with February.

Have not been sewing much. Had the house to clean and also did some painting. I just love all these tiny paper piecing patchwork as I am able to use all the small leftover fabric that is lying around here. Also it is very interesting to see how the pieces come together when you follow the numbers.

2 mini quilt tops finished

I have 2 of the 12 mini quilt top blocks finished. Here they are !!!!!

Patchwork quilting and thoughts

I had great fun today again watching the patchwork group with their star squares they are making and today they made a very difficult square. I have to comment that a person has to read the instructions very carefully and also maybe reread them. They did not do that so ended up with some very wrong pieces of fabric and as you alll know quilting fabric is very expensive. We got to sort out the problem and then there was deciding on how to put it all together. I am not doing the stars and am busy with the calender applique and have nearly finished the month of March. We also had the sewing group meeting and learned how to make a spider web and also put a small spider bead on. Spiders and the web are in quilters terms good luck to the person who receives this piece of artwork.