2 OPAM finishes

Yes TWO quilts are finished

that means I have 1 possibly 2 sneaky nights of binding left

and my to do list is done....for now

Now I am no professional quilter, but I will have a bash, on MY quilts

to get the hang of other designs instead of just stippling every quilt I do

In My Garden was my victim,

I love the dodgy design I used on the border

LOVE that design

and hindsight is wonderful I SHOULD have stitched in the ditch

around all the applique blocks BEFORE I quilted it, but that would have left

me with the how do I get it on the frame correctly dilemma, but its finished

its 100% made by me and I love it

and my Pies and Tarts

LOVE IT 

As soon as the quilt holder uperers are home from school, I will share

full photos, I have to go and see Miss I's teacher today as she is

being bullied and it needs to stop.

She is very sensitive and takes things to heart and I don't need these

2 boys destroying what little self confidence she has in herself

wish me luck....

Some finishes

Park Avenue is now washed, dried and

on my bed and I LOVE it.

5 drawstring party bags

see the lining, I HAD 5 metres of that fabric yesterday, then a girlie

decided to empty the rubbish in my sewing room and because

a corner of that fabric was in the bin, she BINNED all 5 metres

and I found out AFTER the bin had been emptied.....

bugger

and my finds at the reject shop yesterday

$5 each, we love them

and my 3 2 wise Santa's, the 3rd had a run in with

Henry last year...and our Reindeer

and in case you have forgotten its



Another Finish

Park Avenue is finished

its just had a wash

and now is having a tumble in the dryer

and my quilting stood up to the washing machine YIPPEE

Its been a busy day for me.

After I dropped the girlies at school

I headed to Bega (40 minute drive) to get the Christmas

shopping done, and I got everything on

their lists, but need to get a couple of things for

Emma and Webby

Not one of the girlies asked for anything HUGE

I think the most expensive present they all

ask for was a DS game which I pre ordered

and lucky I did, when I picked them up they

told me that there were none availble in Aus until

after Christmas

They will all be happy girlies on Christmas morning.

Then I raced home unpacked the shopping and

went to school for Imogens Christmas concert.

After that I did the groceries, came home unpacked them

had lunch went to dh work to organise a Christmas BBQ here for his 2

workmates and their families for Sunday.

Stopped and got some fuel, picked the girlies up from the

bus, home for 1 hour, then off to scouts,

back to the supermarket for fruit and vege and some

christmas treats for the kids on Sunday

home again, half made some drawstring bags for the

kids treats for Sunday

Back to scouts to collect the girlies

home to get dinner, showers, some tv then bed for the girls

I got the last of the binding stitched down

quilt in the wash and dryer

kitchen cleaned

and I am exhausted

I am looking forward to Webby coming home on Saturday

he has been in Brisbane for work since Sunday and I had forgotten

how hard 3 girlies on your own can be

and you know I miss him, its the longest we have been apart for 14 weeks

and its very very quiet without him, and I miss having coffee every

morning at work or the coffee shop

2 more sleeps yippee



354 inches

of binding to stitch down on the Park Avenue

quilt, no pressure at all lol

My plan for today was to sit watch movies and stitch binding

BUT

I got distracted as I do and instead I made a

thread catcher bag for the quilty beast

and a huge pincushion

and together

and thats  all the stitching I have done today

but I did watch my movies while I sewed

I have cleaned the house, returned the dvd's, got chicken

wings marinating for dinner, and I picked up a

parcel at the PO and had another

delivered to the front door

and neither of them were SSCS parcels...

I am off to Bega tomorrow to get some Christmas shopping

done before the girlies finish school which is next Friday :(

I have my list, I just hope I can get what they want

and big excitement

Gumdrops and Frumpa are coming for a holiday

in Febuary lol, for 2 weeks

YIPPEE and ds will be here early Feb for a holiday too

we will definately have a full house

and my tension issues when quilting is 100%

DRIVER ERROR, it would appear you cannot

quilt as fast as you sew.........

so I slowed my sewing machine down, slowed myself down,

fiddled with the tension settings on my machine

and woo hoo tension issues sorted....I think

and Sarah yep you were right......I suppose an instruction manual is

there to be read lol not filed away



Some Kind of Wonderful Update

I am making steady progress

with my SKoW quilt.

and a sneaky peak at my SSCS pressie

thats it, that all I can show you

I am off to get my suitcase ready!

no I'm not going anywhere 

it's the suitcase for my SKoW quilt lol



Its been a great day

I got to sleep in until 8am

the house was quiet at 8:40am

it took me 1.5 hours to get a quilt onto the quilty beast

then I needed to have coffee, so I did with dh at our

favourite cafe.

then it was home to have some fun

Now I am not likely to ever be an expert quilter

but I am getting better each time I play so today I was

brave and had a go at quilting on an actual quilt

and by the bottom of the quilt I had a good rhythm going :)

Look ma I can stipple :)

I think its quite strange that I couldn't for the life of me stipple before I got the

frame, no matter how much I tried I just couldn't do it, now each time I do it

I improve, guess its true practice makes perfect :)

Khris thanks for the link to the pies and tarts quilting suggestion

I love it and I am seriously considering doing mine just like it. Might

need some circle work practise first lol.

Have a great weekend, I will be starting my MIL's xmas present

and hopefully my SKoW blocks oh and sewing on/down the binding

on the new couch quilt :)



Its a Finish

I had some photocopy-ing to do this morning

which took longer than I thought so I didn't get

a chance to play on the quilty beast today

BUT

I did make something very cute, and its for ME

Its the sewing case from Anni's gorgeous book

Some Kind of Wonderful

I chose not to do the stitcheries and lordy the lining

drove me bonkers but I persevered and got it done

Pies and Tarts progress

SEVEN ( yes 7) tarts left to stitch down, 5 tarts 1.5 tarts still to make though :(

I love it, I love it

I LOVE IT

but I don't love it enough to make the full sized quilt :)

any suggestions on quilting it????