Busy as a Beaver

I have been very productive at my sewing machine lately. Managing to finish

2 quilt tops with substantial progress on a third

1st top is a trip around the world, made completely

out of my stash, I surprised myself with

just how many brights I actually had

Burgoyne Surrounded and now that its

finished bar the quilting I can see 2 spots which will 

involve time with the unpicker and a bit of 

re sewing........ its HUGE but should look 

fabulous on my bed, once its quilted

and I caught the dresden plate bug, I had a fat 1/8th

bundle of Vintage Modern which gave me 16 plates,

and I have added a layer cake of scrumptious which is giving me

another 5 plates and I will have 4 plates which will be a mix of

vintage modern and scrumptious, for a total of 25 plates.

Then I will need to make the itty bitty plates to have

were the blocks join, that little plate is smaller than a 

DVD disc

the plates on the design wall

plates to go onto the design wall

centre fabric for all plates, its a bit of Ruby

blades to be sewn into plates tomorrow

and the remaining 4 stacks to be ironed into blades 

tomorrow

I have the hubster home for 2 weeks....... lots of golf on

his agenda, this weekend will see us hosting

the annual Christmas Soiree for his work and friends

will be a fabulous night.

3 weeks until the girlies finish school and 2 of them finish

primary school........

Too Many Pie's

I think I have my fingers planted in too many pies 

this is what has been going on over the last week

On my design floor (its too big for the wall)

a UFO from last year.

Burgoyne Surrounded

finished size 85"x107"

I have 6 more blocks to make, plus the sashing between

each block, row then I can start on the border.

On the quilting frame was this garish, give me nightmares

quilt, its one that my mummy made and was in her

quilting things, and because Em needs to have a

queen size of king size bed to be able to use the quilt I made on 

mums behalf, its now Emma's quilt. Its in the binding line

I started off stippling it

then moved onto loops

For Sophie, a very funky little wall hanging

(its in the binding line too)

I had a fat 1/8th bundle of 

Vintage Modern staring at me for yonks

now I have Dresden canoes

and Dresden blades

and 1 finished Dresden plate

the plan is to make a Dresden quilt for me, with the plates appliquéd

onto white background squares and then to have smaller dresden

plates appliqued where the blocks join, but as we all know

plans can change.

So I possibly have my fingers in to many pies but as I keep telling my

dh, I am stash busting, I ONLY need to buy background fabric 

for the Dresdans, the Burgoyne Surrounded, needs nothing as I

had already started it....

I am SAVING him money :)