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2nd UFO Finished from Elfin Patch

I'm pleased to have finished my 2nd UFO for this year. I still have lots of others to do, but this one is actually DONE. As you know, I have been plodding on with this one for weeks, taking it to the Bee and Wednesday Club. Well, it was Wednesday club this week and it duly came with me. I had three blocks to echo quilt around the appliqué left to do . Well I came home with two and a half still left to do.This is just not good enough I thought, so I sat all day yesterday ...

added by dorothy midson 0 minutes ago.

Problem backgrounds from Maria Elkins -- Original Art Quilts

Yesterday, I finished putting the shadow and highlight accents on the two dresses. I also started painting the clivia (AKA Kaffir lily). However, the painted version is not quite as neon orange as it appears in this photo. By the way, thank you to everyone who helped identify that flower.

Backgrounds are a problem for me. I typically say, “Backgrounds are boring.” But I’m thinking this image will need something at the bottom. I can just leave these poor little girls floating in space. It seems like they need to be standing on something. And, in the photo, the ...

added by Maria 0 minutes ago. under work in progress (Comments)

Stars and pinwheels............ from Exuberant Color

I cut 6 sets of triangles and squares from the white/black prints and sewed 2 more blocks.

I decided to put the umbrella fabric up on a design wall and pin some of the pinwheel blocks over it. I love how busy it is!! I have 21 pinwheel blocks to use in this quilt. I'll probably have to make a few more.

added by Exuberant Color 0 minutes ago. under black and white , hand dyed fabric , kaffe fabric , star quilts

Quilt as desired part one from quiltsalott

This is the last day of the Celebrate Hand Quilting spring blog hop and since I put my hand up to do a post, I've been racking my brain thinking about what I should talk about. Then it came to me, why not chat about how I choose my quilting designs.
I could talk about that subject for a long time so I decided to break it up into separate posts starting with big stitch quilting.

This style of quilting has always been around but I only became aware of it after an article in the Quilters' Newsletter Magazine ...

added by Janet 0 minutes ago. under big stitch quilting , hand quilting

I LOVE Progress! from Canton Village Quilt Works

Hello Everyone,

One of the things that I ADORE the most about teaching is seeing progress! I am a huge fan of seeing progress photos and taking them along the way. But as we are getting closer to the completion of the classes, this is when I get beyond excited.

Let me share with you some of the photos from yesterday's Mariner's Compass TOM...

Nancy was auditioning some background fabrics. We think the turquoise on the right is correct choice not the lavender... your thoughts?

Shirley has most of her inner ropes completed! It is really starting to ...

added by Jackie 0 minutes ago. under batiks , judy niemeyer , mariner's compass , paper piecing , technique of the month

eucalyptus from downunderdale

We have lots of eucalyptus trees of differing sorts in our garden - you can tell it is our house because everything around is bare. this one has lovely nuts (and a yellow flower now finished) - the nuts fall on the footpath and drive and sometimes people collect them or they get squashed by the cars coming out of next door. For some reason they never seem to be in our garden.

I used the stencils from yesterday to first do a gelli plate print with the Opulent paints and spray over the top with the Sun Dye paints. The metallic ...

added by Downunderdale 0 minutes ago.

Joining a New Bee... One with a difference from Dandelion Daydreams

I am joining up to a new sewing Bee.

You can find out more over at {my brilliant friend} Moira's blog.

It's called the *me me me* bee, which should give you a little clue as to what it's all about.

I really hope you will join too.

added by Liz DandeliondD 0 minutes ago.

So I taught myself to crochet..... from Seraphym

Yep, I taught myself how to crochet this week. Something I've been wanting to master since forever, Fair to say I am very far off mastering the skill, but at least I can do the very basics. In typical me style I am absolutely obsessed with it at the moment (well as obsessed as a quilter can be with something else)

So lets have a look at my very first project. Nope, I didnt try doing a scarf or something simple... I decided I wanted to make this:

Clicky the pic for the link

aaaaand this is how it ...

added by Seraphym 0 minutes ago.

QBSA blocks from Dawnelle from Quilting with Calicos

These are the blocks I received from Dawnelle...great job!

added by Julianne 0 minutes ago.

Sewing Day, Updates and Wonderful Thank Yous! from Aussie Hero Quilts

Hi All,

Today was another sewing day in Penrith and what a productive day. Liz B made the huge three hour drive (each way!!!) down to join us for a special treat and she brought this quilt along to show me so that I can find it a home.

Pam came and she got busy stitching nine patches that would become disappearing nine patches by the end of the day. There are enough for a quilt!

Carolyn took on the task of assembling some of our BOM blocks into a strippy quilt.

Now, I know someone will recognise their blocks ...

added by Jan Maree 0 minutes ago.

OVERLOCKER LESSON from ludlow quilt and sew

On Wednesday I went to a workshop to try and get to know my overlocker. Mine came from a supermarket and is about as basic as they come. Perhaps a false economy. The other students seemed to be whizzing away on their machines in no time at all, while I was still plodding away trying to figure out how to open up the sections of the machine never mind threading the four different threads. I didn't really succeed at any of the different types of overlocking that we were shown to use which was quite depressing. The instructor, Lorna ...

added by Rose Smith 0 minutes ago. under london , overlocker lesson

Garden Time Inspiration! from Blue Bird Sews

This week I want to share with you my garden inspiration instead of quilty inspiration. I hope that's okay with you! :-)

Flowers in a pot to greet you

Lupine and Poppies for Spring

Here is SE Portland gardening is an art form. It is the fourth summer of veggie gardening in my fenced off 30'x30' garden plot and something amazing has happened. My dirt has turned to soil, my paths are all broken in and each year I do a little less prep work to get everything going.

My garden helper is growing too!

I also came to ...

added by Kelly Cole 0 minutes ago. under garden

Art Quilting Fun from Gene Black an Alabama Artist

Saturday I started on fun little art quilt. It is not my design, but it is a part of the learning process. I am taking Hand Stitched Collage Quilts on Craftsy. I started it soon after the class was announced. But I just started MAKING one of the projects. This one is called "The House in the Valley." I got the top fused together onto the batting. At that point I took a picture:

I have started on the hand stitching to add embellishment but I only have a little bit done. Let me show you what I did to ...

added by Gene Black 0 minutes ago.

pin it forward from I'm a ginger monkey

I'm pretty sure most you have already heard of pinterest, and use it daily...am I right? Well, they've just launched Pinterest UK and as part of the launch have got a few of us blogging types to share the news and introduce a fellow UK blogger and pinner that you probably haven't heard of before.

So, I'd like you all to meet Michelle and Vicki from pocketful of dreams. They are event planners for weddings and parties and have a great eye for design with the emphasis on fun. No dull stuff here! Check out ...

added by Katy Jones 0 minutes ago.

Campfire Cones from Cactus Needle

In our church

we have an annual tradition

where the men and boys gather for an overnight

Father and Sons Camp Out

They head to the mountains,

pitch their tents

cook food

let the little boys run in packs

(and get plenty dirty)

and tell stories around the campfire.

It's a "GUY THANG"

and I don't know who is more excited to attend

Mr. Cactus

our son-in-law

or our grandsons.

I sent along a fun little treat

that I saw on Pinterest.

Campfire Cones

by Laura of Come Together Kids

You start with a waffle cone

and frost ...

added by Nedra 0 minutes ago. under church , family , good food , grandchildren , nature , recipes

Big decision made from Stitch and Yarn

These last couple of weeks have seen me making a million decisions, big and small, rather than anything crafty and tangible. The biggest decision has been to sell my apartment. The first open house inspection will be next weekend and then an auction will follow about a month later. It's scary, but I think it's the right thing to do and contrary to what I originally thought, it seems like a good time to sell.

In preparation, I've been going through the place room by room and getting rid of all the junk that doesn't deserve ...

added by Stitch and Yarn 0 minutes ago. under apartment , bedroom , creative , design , handmade , home , interior , kitchen , loungeroom

Hole In The Wall from Hulahoop

Several weeks ago, Sandy Corbin was back in town. So our regular group took her class, Hole In The Wall by Eleanor Burns. I had a bundle of fat quarters in Asian fabrics so this is the result. I plan to gift it to another coworker, Elaine Jow, who is originally from Taiwan.

I have one more quilt to finish in the next couple of weeks. Then I plan to sell my quilting machine and frame and eventually upgrade to a longarm setup.

My husband retired a couple of months ago and I have only another 6 weeks before I ...

added by Darci 0 minutes ago. under quilts

Aqua it is..... from Lilabelle Lane

Argh, Collingwood was playing last night and it became a
Bit of a health hazard trying to sew hexagons because I just never
knew when the TV was going to be yelled at and there for
the needle being jabbed into my finger!

Row 1 did get to meet Row 2 before I stopped.

Then I moved to the other end of the house
And into my sewing space. I had noticed that my
Blue scrap box was a lot fuller than the others
And at a closer look I found that it had a lot of
Aqua within in ...

added by Sharon - Lilabelle Lane 0 minutes ago.

Spinning Summertime Workshop from Angie Quilts