3 Finishes and 1 Start

 All 3 finished Quilts have been in the "Waiting for Quilting" pile for a while ... just needed that last PUSH!

#1 2x4" rectangles of scraps from my stash and a friend ... no coloured fabric repeated. I purchased the white and binding.

#2 Several years ago I joined a Calendar Quilt Challenge. 1 fabric strip for each day of the year with each month's name embroidered. I completed the 4 strips and then it hit the UFO pile. I eventually decided on the 4 patch on point strips for sashings and last year it was ready to quilt. I also asked if Quilting friends would like to contribute scraps ... so 4 of the month's are ,"Friend-ly" reminders.

#3 This quilt was made in a weekend workshop and set aside for a special birthday. My SIL turned 50 so ago quilt and binding and it's wrapped ready.

As for my Start? ... I've been itching to crochet another corner to corner rug, this time in a varigate. I needed a project to take with me on an overnight stay so ...

It's perfect weather for crochet.

The Month That Was (or Wasn't)

How fast a month can rush by ... especially when the Winter Blues hit. Living on the land, I will never wish the rain to go away ... but I am so hanging out for a lovely sunny day with no howling winds.

#9 Chookshed Challenge - was my Strips n Curves. I did lay it all out to check where it was up to, but that was all ... FAIL

#7 - Iron Bag/Mat ... Ooops ... I forgot this project was on my list when I made it up a month or so ago.

So for August I'll keep working on a couple of previous Challenge projects.

Below is my July block for the Murder Mystery Quilt.

My Temperature Tree has sprouted leaves for July and this morning I stitched the August branch.

Over the last couple of weeks I have finished bindings on 3 Quilts ... 2 are now hanging in our quilt exhibition and 1 is wrapped ready for a 50th Birthday Girl.

I'll share pics of those in another post. Time to get the Crochet hook into action while watching "The Voice".

Still Here

 Always extra busy at school holiday time. Usually mustering cattle and grandsons are great helping hands, especially our eldest at 11 yrs old going on 31 😊 

My daughter called it 'Cousin Camp' ... keeps me on the hop and loving it ❤️ 

Chookshed Challenge Updates:

#9 - July

Strips n Curves ... another UFO waiting for some love and attention.

#5 - June

Crochet Rug ... I managed some reasonable progress on my Granny Ripple rug before packing away.

#8 - May

Work on my King Bed Quilt was a big fat FAIL ... however I did get it out and make small progress early in June.

I also squeezed in some cross stitch and added most of June leaves to my Temperature Tree 

Lastly, only yesterday, I whipped up the June blocks for Murder Mystery Quilt. PHEW!

Now I'm off to town tomorrow to replenish the pantry after 4 growing boys 💞

"Scraps of Time" Exhibition

 If you would like to take a stroll through our little quilt exhibition ... scroll on down. The theme was to make use of our scrap baskets ... see if you find the repurposed men's ties.

MPQuilters are a small group of ladies (currently 10), most of us travelling at least 50km to 100km once a fortnight to sew and chat. Some members have moved too far away and new ladies have joined ... we think we're coming up on 30 years of friendship and fabric ... our 1st workshop was May 1995 and the rest they say, is history.

So without further ado ... labels and final touches were made after I'd taken these pics.

All About Leaves

Playing catchup with some colourful leaves.

My Temperature Tree now has it's leaves for May and a June branch ready to sprout. Loving the blues and a purple as the temperature drops ... thankful for a nice warm fire to stitch by.

This Autumn Leaf fabric had been tucked away with the pattern ... lost and found ... and hey presto ... a portable ironing mat and bag to take to patchwork days.

Maybe now I will make some progress with June Chookshed Challenge.

Lost and Found

 My mojo tends to be on a permanent lost and found mode but this post is about sewing projects. You know when you have a project in mind ... and you know where you stored it ... but it's not there? Maybe it's those pesky little craft gremlins playing hide and seek!

Well, after my marathon effort of finishing projects for our Exhibition, it was time to get back to my king size bed quilt. I knew exactly where that was ... but I FOUND a few other things tucked away neatly inside the container.

My scrappy version of a Flower Pot wall hanger I had made and forgotten about. The pattern was "LotsaPotsa Flowers" by Betsy DeFazio I browsed in an old magazine.  So a rushed quilting and binding job and just made it in time.

Another FIND was my original piece of Sashiko for the Chookshed Challenge ... maybe I can add this one to a new list for next year?

But wait, there's another FIND.  A carry bag complete with insulbright for taking my iron to patchwork day ... it was all cut out and ready to sew.

Always a great feeling to have a finish, especially when they've been around for a while. I still have 1 or 2 projects that the gremlins have hidden ... yes, I'm blaming them.

I hope to post some exhibition photos this week. The opening on Saturday was a huge success but unfortunately I couldn't attend ... we had a family reunion to attend and much catching up to do. Mum was 1 of 8 children and some of her cousins were also able to attend ... luckily the weather played nicely too.

FNSI + A UFO

Mission accomplished Friday night with the binding hand sewn on my last wall hanging.

This was a free BOM with Paula of Pacific Patchwork.

I just happened to have the perfect hanger as well. Also a UFO completed because I did the stitcheries back in 2011 with a few of the sashings sewn, along with lots of 1.5" squares. In February this year I "discovered" it again and put the top together... another Scrappy project for the Exhibition.

Now I will need to get back to my May goals ... MMQ and Chookshed Challenge, but first a little blog hopping to see what others get up to on a Friday Night.

FNSI and Finishes

 

It's that time of the week again ... Friday and time to grab a needle and thread, or your choice of project. I'm planning to hand stitch the binding on another wall hanging for the Exhibition.

I've never had so many finishes in a short period of time. Admittedly the wall hangers were tops just waiting on quilting.

This one was using the Twisted X template. There was a breeze playing with the pin wheels.

Next is my lap quilt made from my scrap strips stash. 

Here's the Hexagon Bag ... a kit I bought from Michelle's Patchwork and Art.  Another great future scrap busting project.

Onto quilting my (last) wall hanging and machine sew the binding ... ready for hand stitching tonight.

Couple of May Finishes

 Our little group is having an exhibition at the local Art Gallery in June/July. Titled "Scraps of Time", I've been busy getting a few finishes ready.

Scrappy Mystery is a completed wall hanging... this was an online mystery.

Some of us are making Place Mats which will also be for sale... I have 3 so far.

Then I have a Lap Quilt to hand stitch the binding and a bag in progress using hexies. I also have 2 larger Quilts that will probably hang as flimsies as  it was a bit of short notice.

Back to the sewing machine.

May Challenge and Progress

Chookshed Challenge for May is ...

My king bed quilt. I was sailing along with this one last year and then my big machine went to the big sewing room in the sky ... so the quilt went on the back burner. Just need to start joining more blocks.

This week the next steps for a little Mystery project were released. All those little 9 patches and HST have been sewn together with border one added.

Night time is a nice time for some Sashiko and my first piece is finished. I think this was also my March Chookshed Challenge.

Monday night I added April leaves to my Temperature Tree while watching Farmer Wants A Wife. 

It feels good to just chip away and make progress on projects and/or keep relatively up to date.

The May block for the Murder Mystery Quilt is released next Thursday and I need to get cracking on quilting a couple of Scrappy Quilts for an upcoming exhibition for our group. Hubby also informed me we have mustering to do.