Framed

On Wednesday night Lynell, Robyn, Darren and I went to the State Theatre in Sydney for the Michael Ball/Alfie Boe concert.  It was fabulous!  Their voices are amazing and they are such wonderful performers - lots of laughs as well.

Finished stitching down the binding on "Framed" last night.  It's a lap-size quilt designed by Camille Roskelley (Thimble Blossoms) and the pattern is in her book "Simply Retro".  It's a great pattern to show off large prints and comes together very quickly.  Because of the amount of fabric I had available, this quilt is one row narrower than the pattern, and finished size is 49-1/4" x 62".

Jenny at AngelCake Quilting quilted this for me using "Mod Flower" design.

 

 

Two "Clambake" quilts to be bound next - one cot-size

and the other lap-size.

Next up is finishing ChaCha's twirling dress and then it's time to start some Christmas sewing.

Another busy (ie socialising) weekend coming up - dinner with The Schoolgirls tonight and Sydney tomorrow with other friends to see "Assassins" at the Hayes Theatre then out for dinner.

Dream Big

During last week I sewed some more Scrappy Stars.  There are now 37/145 finished.  I don't expect many stars to be made this week.  Too many other things happening.

On Thursday afternoon I collected two quilts from Jenny (AngelCake Quilting) and sewed the binding on during the weekend.  "Dream Big" is now finished - it's a cot-sized quilt made in Moda's "Whisper Muslin Mates" - a very different colourway for me to use.  All the fabrics were purchased from Karen earlier this year.

 

 

The binding on "Framed" is yet to be stitched down.

ChaCha stayed over on Friday night but wasn't well enough to come with Mum and me when we visited Michael and Gulliver on Saturday.  We had such a fun time.  Gulliver is such a busy little boy and a delight.  The treasure chest Mum gave to Gulli kept him entertained for ages and he was very impressed with his new Star Wars Bandaids.

We also visited Jenni and Kurt and popped in to see Elizabeth, Matt and ChaCha, so it was a great day out.

On Sunday afternoon I started sewing up a couple of little dresses for ChaCha.
 

This one is for twirling - her favourite thing to do at the moment.

 
Mum will be doing the hand-sewing on both of these dresses.

Tonight Robyn, Lynell, Darren and I are going to a concert at the State Theatre:  Michael Ball and Alfie Boe.  We've been looking forward to this for months.  Friday night I'm meeting up with The Schoolgirls for dinner and on Saturday, Tania and I are going to see "Assassins" at the Hayes Theatre - I know very little about this show, only that David Campbell is in it and it's a musical.

Tessellation

It's been so great to spend some time in the Pink Room during the last couple of weeks.  I have a box of cut out quilt tops and have finished sewing some together - they are all smaller quilts with large pieces so didn't take long to sew up.

A few months ago I bought a layer cake, Moda "Whisper Muslin Mates", from Karen plus some yardage for background, borders and backing.  I was able to cut out two quilts:  "Dream Big", designed by Camille Roskelley (Thimble Blossoms) from her "Simplify" book -

and "Framed" from her "Simply Retro" book.

 
Another quilt I had cut out was "Clambake" also designed by Camille.

I cut out too many blocks, so only needed to cut another 12 to have enough to make the cot-sized version, which is included in the pattern.

Recently I dropped off these four quilts plus the two pink cot quilts to a new-to-me quilter and on Monday she sent through photos of the two pink quilts.  I'm picking them up this afternoon and hope to sew on the binding over the weekend.

Jenni's birthday quilt arrived back from Sarah last Friday and the quilting looks fantastic!  The quilt needed a design to off-set all the triangles and points and "Squares All Around" was a great choice (along with the aqua thread).

Sewed on the binding on Monday and stitched it down while watching tv.  I'm so happy this one is finished and with how it turned out as "Tessellation" was a real challenge for me to make.

On Friday nightI was looking through one of my fabric boxes to cut some more 5" squares for my B&C version of "Snippets",

came across some half-square triangles and had a light bulb moment - made some hourglass blocks with them and "Scrappy Stars" was underway (another Camille Roskelley design).

We've just had a long weekend and it turned out to be a busy few days.  Saturday had a lovely time catching up with Lynell and Wendy - Robyn couldn't join us because she was in Canberra awaiting the arrival (on Saturday morning) of her brand new grandson and on Sunday Mum, Jenni, Kurt, ChaCha and I had lunch at the Audley Dancehall and Cafe - such a lovely place and loads of space for little ones to run around.