Quilt Top

Poor "Hide and Seek" has been languishing on the floor of The Pink Room for weeks.

A couple of rows were added last Monday and the floor is looking tidier.  I'll get back to it soon.

I have decided to make a red "Red Letter Day"  and ordered some more Bonnie & Camille reds along with some more Riley Blake Swiss Dots for the background.

Had to make one block. I'm adding extra little blocks in the corners to make small stars when the blocks are joined together.

"Wish Upon a Star" quilt top is together,

 the backing is made

and they are ready to take to the quilter tomorrow.  The rosebud fabric will also be used for the binding.

On Saturday I spent a fair while working on the layout for Scrappy Trip Around the World - thought I had it sorted until I found two blocks with the same aqua fabric next to each other.  Hopefully it's all good to go now - I want to start sewing these blocks together tonight.

Yesterday I went to the shops to buy some machine needles and also bought a new cutting mat - it's long overdue.

 

Over the weekend I also worked on the Dwell house blocks - 2 lots of 6 blocks are going to the other swap members

and these blocks are for my quilt:

Littlest Sweetheart turns 1 on Wednesday - what a quick year that has been!

Blocks are Done

Over the last couple of weeks I've mainly been working on two quilts:  "Wish Upon a Star" and Scrappy Trip Around the World.

The blocks for both are now complete.  Next up for Scrappy Trip is the layout - will have to set this one out on the floor because it's too big for the design sheet and also too big to lay out on the spare bed.  There are sashings to make for the Star quilt and I'm hoping to make them this week.

In between sewing these blocks, I've made some more house interiors for the "Dwell" block swap - as usual, I've over-catered and will have six blocks for each girl (rather than the required 5) because I forgot about the Pineapple Blocks that I had already made for them.  I have two more of the white star blocks cut out and ready to put together.  The girls can decide which houses they want to include in their quilt tops.

Dutchman's Puzzle, Card Trick and I don't know the name of the third block

I've enjoyed making these 6" blocks - a good opportunity to dig through the scrap drawer and use up lots of favourite little pieces.

Had an enjoyable weekend - quiet for me.  Saturday morning I did some cooking to take along to an ovarian cancer fundraising high tea - little quiches (Lorraine, mushroom, asparagus, camembert and smoked salmon).

This is one of my bosses, Tania - she hosted the high tea and her scones and zucchini slice were delicious.

Spent some time with the family later in the day and yesterday I was mostly in The Pink Room and a visit with Mum in the afternoon.  We were watching the Fire Fight Australia concert and I continued to watch it at home.  Some absolutely outstanding performances:  Tina Arena, Queen with Adam Lambert (oh WOW!) and then kd lang showed everyone what great singing is all about.  Her performance of "The Valley" was sensational and then she topped it off with "Hallelujah" - simply stunning.

Same Same

Most sewing this week is the same as the last couple of weeks:  the second-last 6 blocks for the "Scrappy Trip Around the World" sewalong

as well as a couple more "Wish Upon a Star" blocks.  I have two more blocks together.

I've joined another block swap - this time with only two others.  We're making 5 "Dwell" blocks with a 6" block for the centre of the housesfor each other.  Both girls requested a Pineapple Block for the interior of one house.  I always have difficulty with keeping this block straight and think it would have been better to not have the striped centre.

Last night I made some mini "Starlight" blocks

and some "Sawtooth Stars"

I'm enjoying going through the scrap drawers and like the look of the blocks with lots of colours but there needs to be a few blocks to "calm down" the look of the quilt so it's not too busy.

Last Saturday Robyn and I went to see "A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood" - I felt a bit blah about this movie; it's not one I'd recommend.  Sunday was a busy day with the grandchildren - Gulliver was with me for the day with me and we spent the day with T & H.  Gulli and T had a great time together.

Can't believe it's almost H's first birthday - time is moving way too quickly.  Today is 4 years since we lost Paul and tomorrow is my little brother's 60th birthday.

Had such a fun time on Saturday at Sweetheart T's 5th birthday party - it was held at the Discovery Centre at the University and all the children had the best time playing and running everywhere.  She didn't want to go home so Mum and I stayed there with her and Gulli for a couple of extra hours.

Then on Monday T started school!  A big couple of days for her - she's settling in to her new routine very well, although that will change in a month or so when her Mummy goes back to work.

Jenni and Kurt stayed over - so lovely to spend some time with them.

Last Hawks home game for the season was Sunday afternoon - wasn't going well for the Hawks and then the stadium roof sprung a leak so the game was abandoned just before the end of the third quarter.

I've enjoyed watching the Australian Open tennis but I'm glad it's over for the year.  Think I'm a bit "tennissed-out".

Have managed to keep up, so far, with the Scrappy Trip Around the World sew-along but not sure how long this will last.  I think the quilt will look pretty when it's all together - it will be a large quilt at around 96" square.

This week has been lots of pressing and trimming "Wish Upon a Star" 160 half square triangles and 128 Flying Geese blocks.

Now ready to sort them in to piles for the 15 remaining blocks.  I was hoping to have no fabric repeats in the individual blocks but it's not going to work out.

We've had torrential rain overnight and all day today which will continue well into next week.  I think we've had enough now and it should move over the mountains.