Its beginning to look alot like Christmas

Saturday night the girlies were given the job of

decorating our Christmas tree

and I hung our Christmas quilts up

A Christmas Story in the loungeroom

Tis the Season on the stairs

Today I hung our garland up on the stair banister

(looked much better hanging on our mantlepiece in Tas)

lighty decorated with 3 angels, 3 red baubles

and 3 apples

and Henrycat kept a very close eye on me today

from his  the ironing board

while I tried to quilt Park Avenue I am having tension issues

on the back.......driving me crazy

and if you look very closely

you can see I made it to the bottom border,

tomorrow it will be finished  I still have to quilt all

the dark triangles on each side.



Its Almost Finished

Park Avenue this morning

making the extra centre blocks

Ta da, still needs the top and bottom borders sewn on

4 corner blocks to make

  

and the colour is a bit off due to the lighting in my

bedroom

and I have moved Henrycat off the ironing board well

I have no idea how many times today

Hopefully tomorrow I'll get the final blocks made, borders on

and on the quilty beast BEFORE dh flies to Brisvegas

for work on Sunday.



Park Avenue

is the name of the UFO I am now trying

to finish, using delious Park Avenue by

3 Sisters for Moda.

It has been in this state for MONTHS.....

This is what I have to deal with

and what it should look like when finished

I now have 43 Civil War blocks done

so that means I have until Saturday to get the remaining 5 blocks done.

Very do-able I think

Tonight I am going to start block 6 of

In My Garden, Love making this quilt

and only 3 blocks to go after #6 is finished :)



On my Must do list

A couple of weeks ago I ordered myself a

just released at Houston book

all because of this quilt, I love it,

its high on my list of must make quilts

meanwhile I finished Block 5, except for the

'rails n nails' and some diamonds on the left

and I have some applique to do for my Civil War Quilts

they are on tonights stitching list in front of the tv

you never know I might even get to start block 6



36

Civil War quilt blocks are

now completed

Yesterday the weather man was spot on

we got 57 mm's of rain in just under 24 hours

perfect stitching weather

the girlies watched movies

I got to sew ALL DAY

sorry about the 2 photos but this is what my design wall

looks like at the moment and blogger won't post them

side by side for me :(

I need to change the 2nd row # 6 block

the background needs to blend in a

bit more, atm it sticks out.

Today was a gorgeous if not windy day

so

I weeded a garden bed today and we now have a

small vege patch with

sweetcorn

2 x chillies

2 x capsicum

snow peas

lettuce

bok choy

and then in another bed we have 4 different varities

of tomatoes.

I have also finished block 5 of

In My Garden

I am just adding the fence 'rails and nails'

the palings are all done and so is the gate

Friday night I stitched all the embroidery on the other 4

blocks, and added the needleturn bits that hadn't been done

dh printed some patterns for me at work yesterday

I also found the pattern online for a quilt I started at the begining

of the year, using yummy Park Avenue fabric, the original pattern went awol

in the move so I printed it

off and tomorrow will pull out all my bits and see where I am

up to, after the house gets a good clean between the rain, the dog

and the kids its much needed :)



It's Catch Up time

for me this weekend

its supposed to be wet and miserable so

that means it PERFECT sewing weather

and what am I catching up on

my Civil War Quilts quilt

I have 23 of the blocks sewn, 2 cut out ready

to be sewn and I have just spent the last 2 hours

printing off the remaining 22 blocks that I haven't made

If you would like to make the quilt, Barbara will be leaving all

the blocks and instructions on the CWQ blog until

July 1 2012 then they will be removed.

There are only 6 more blocks to be posted

So I have better get sewing .

Oooooh I finally finished the house last night

and started on the fence......

only 19 more palings to stitch and the gate......

Still Building

Block 5, its the biggest one

but the end is in sight, just 5 more flowers and 5 leaves

to applique on.

then I have a fence to build......

I went to Bega this morning, and picked up some

backing for my pies and tarts

and some black background fabric and fat 1/4's for

a new project for the lounge room wall

the reds aren't really that red

New project can be found withing these pages

and at Merimbula I picked up some new clover blue pens,

thread for hand quilting and a new cutter,

a  PINK one :)

and yesterday I managed to get this top together

very easy but very time consuming

and I love it :)