Ok, so some of the curves aren’t the smoothest, and I totally failed at keeping my speed constant, so the stitches are all different lengths, but I’m still very pleased with it for a first attempt. And I reckon the recipient, who’s not a quilter, won’t even know that those are errors 🙂
As promised, photo of the work in progress: Gotta go now, need to get to the airport (flying up to Wellington for the day always seems like such a good idea – after all it’s just a 40 minute flight, hardly any time at all. Until you add on check-in time, and getting to and…
Amazingly, the sun actually came out over the weekend, and the forecast for Thursday and Friday is now just “drizzle at time”, rather than rain. Drizzle at times I can handle. Drizzle at times means just ducking under the shelter of the marquee for a few minutes until the sun comes out again. Drizzle at…
Finished making the nine-patches. All 113 of them. I’m slowly getting better at getting all the seams to match up with each other properly (nine-patches are very good practice for that!). I haven’t got as far as actually sewing the blocks together (too much of a social life this weekend, going out to a Toastmasters…
This new quilt is definitely slower going than the jelly roll race one (mainly because the seams have to be pretty accurate for it to work properly), but I am making progress. I spent a couple of hours this afternoon sewing the squares I’d cut out back together again: And then this evening I cut…
Yep, that’s the final bird done – the osprey. So yay, finished all the birds! Except now it’s the hard part – I’ve got to figure out the layout to get them all onto a quilt. I do have a rough plan sketched out, but of course, I’m likely to change my mind on a…
fter spending most of the morning cutting scraps of material into strips, and most of the afternoon sewing them back together again (who ever said quilting was a logical sort of hobby…), I’ve managed to complete a whole six blocks of my quilt. Good thing I’m not working to a deadline this time! Pretty pictures…
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That looks awesome!
Good for you for going ahead!
Woo hoo!!! Well done- what a great job! Really great, can’t wait to see what you get up to next.
This is a fantastic first attempt, I really encourage you to keep at it, you are doing so well! So glad to hear you got the courage to try- and hope it continues to bring you joy in your quilting!!
Thanks! I count that as high praise coming from such a talented quilter as yourself. Your book is definitely on my wishlist!
Congratulations – looks so so good. And how brave of you to even attempt it.
Gold Star award !