Last Week/This Week

Monday I ate Malteasers, drank almost cold coffee and read Sundays paper

I worked on some blocks for The Circle Game

I made some templates for more blocks for The Circle Game

I fondled some gorgeous fabrics that came to live with me, 

Gardenvale by Jen Kingwell and True Colours by Tula Pink

I worked on another block for The Circle Game

and finished it

On Friday I was given a very quick lesson on hand quilting at my sewing group

and Im still quilting away at night

Saturday and Sunday were spent at a soccer tournament, I was official scorer, so while the games were on I kept on stitching

This really tickled my fancy on Sunday morning as we were headed to soccer at 7:30am

Sunday afternoon saw Henry take up residence on my lap, under my quilt, its rather tricky to hand quilt with a cat on your lap

but I persevered

making good progress, this was Monday

The quilt inspector doing his job

Mondays amazing Sunset, we don't usually see the sunset here at our house

I will be honest I laughed, a lot at this

yesterday I took a trip to Bega for template plastic and some more pearl 8 cotton, the shop had just changed the brand of the pearl cotton they sell and have 3 baskets full of cottons being sold for $2 a ball, I decided to introduce some orange into my quilt, I will be going back to buy all the colours

I have half of the quilt, quilted as of today (Thursday 10/6)

today I cleaned up my sewing room, sorted fabrics and filled a basket of scrap pieces 

they are now being cut so I can make scrap vortex quilt

My Week in Pictures

                     

                           

I stitched all the stems on Bring Me Flowers that I had missed

                           

The final four alternate blocks for Bring Me Flowers, which I had to reverse sew 

and re-stitch so they were right 

                           

I've made good progress on my Steam Punk blocks

                           

Bring Me Flowers at the start of the sewing together marathon

                           

Just needs its borders

                           

More Steam Punk blocks

                         

                         

1 border down, 3 to go to finish Bring Me Flowers

 (I have 2 borders to go as of today)

                         

2 borders waiting to be sewn together

                         

I sourced this gorgeous pattern, it's called Irish Circles 

and is by Karen Cunningham, I'll be ordering it this week

                         

Another steam punk block missing it's centre circle though, 

and there is another block finished no photo of it yet though 

I think that takes my Steam Punk block tally to 28

                         

The beginnings of Jen Kingwells 2014 mystery BOM run by 

Amitie Textiles which I have been collecting

                         

And some more of month 1

                         

All stitched together (and unironed) today while I was on the sidelines at soccer

                                   

I found this fabulous book/magazine before soccer, 

there are a couple of projects I want to make

                       

and that's my week in pictures, 

I wonder if I'll get as much done this week