Zig Zag Whimsy

At long last this quilt is finished - feels like it's taken forever to quilt and I was able to sew down the binding last night while watching "Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood".

"Zig Zag Whimsy" 62-3/4" x 68-1/4"

The quilt is made with mostly "Whimsy" from Fig Tree Fabrics and a few other Fig Tree Fabrics thrown in to add a bit of variety and the background is Fig Tree Cream.  I'm so happy with this quilt and how the quilting has turned out - lots of wrangling under the machine.  This quilt is for sale.

I've also started making up the "Little Apples" Double Irish Chain blocks

that I cut out last week and some more Pyjama Babies star blocks

No rain today, blue sky and sunshine -here's hoping we have some nice weather over the weekend

Blogging from an iPad

I tried to do a blog post from our iPad using an App called "Blog Press" but there's some issue with our network and it won't post.

The last few days I've been pin-basting quilts.  Anyone who has visited has been roped in to pinning too.  The first quilt is being quilted but it's very slow going - lots of interruptions, which I don't mind.

iPad photo

The new sewing machine is great - after these 3 quilts the machine will be going on the frame and I'll get stuck into the rest of the quilt tops in the pile.  Maybe some more quilting over the weekend.  Lots of rain here the last couple of days.

Zig Zag Whimsy

This quilt top seems to have taken so much longer to put together compared with the others I've made recently.  I like it now that it's done.

 

 

Another quilt top on the pile.  Hopefully the batting will arrive tomorrow.  I found a piece of batting large enough for my Oh Cherry Oh table topper so I'm going to pin baste that this afternoon and maybe start quilting.  Back in November I bought a new sewing machine for the frame and I still haven't tried out out.  I've been wanting to quilt something small at the dining room table to get a feel for the machine before putting it on the frame and couldn't do that before Christmas because I had to wait for the walking foot to arrive.  Today is the day.

Beautiful summer's day on the sunny South Coast - lovely change from all the rain we've had.

Fig Tree Zig Zags

Last year I bought some Fig Tree fabrics from Bec and included in the parcel were 2 packs of Whimsy charm squares that had been sewn into half square triangle blocks with some Fig Tree cream.  I've added a few more blocks using a variety of Fig Tree fabrics and am up to my least favourite part of the patchwork/quilting process:  sorting out placement of the blocks.

  

I love scrappy quilts but deciding which fabric should go next to which drives me nuts.

The sun has come back today just in time for Australia Day bar-b-ques and celebrations.  We are going to a restaurant at the local harbour for dinner tonight and we'll have a great spot to watch the fireworks.