Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup is finished (54-1/4" square plus prairie points).

I can't take any credit for the design of this quilt - I saw it on a website advertising Holly Holderman's Alphabet Panel and decided to have a go at working out the maths for the star blocks.  The only fabrics I bought were the alphabet panel and the turquoise/white stripe for the border - all the rest, including the backing fabrics, came out of the cupboard (which happened to contain some of the lovely Holly Holderman cherry, check and baby rabbit fabrics).

Also in one of my cupboards is a stack of hexagons my Mum stitched a few years ago - these are for Bouquet Garden from Homespun No 21.  The hexagons form a central medallion which is surrounded by 9 borders.  All the borders were also cut out years ago.  This will be the next quilt for me to finish off as well as continuing with Tail Feathers.  Haven't touched The Wish Quilt for a good few weeks and think it will again be on the back-burner for quite a while.

Jenni and I had a lovely day out yesterday - she bought everything on her list and a bit more.  Guess what?  I have to go back - fell in love with an office chair that I thought would look so pretty in my sewing room, brought it home and found I'd picked up the wrong box - same style, wrong colour.

Easter Sewing

Over the Easter break I added the borders to Alphabet Soup

made the backing (the dark spot is the shadow from the peg basket)

and quilted it

Prairie points and binding are now attached.  It's looking very sweet - just waiting for a baby to be born.

Also made the next block in our on-line group's 12-1/2" BOM - Annie's New Year's Eve Star - Peg chose well - everyone has loved making this block.

Progress on the next Tail Feathers block has been slow.

Day off work tomorrow - Jenni and I are going to Ikea.

The Wedding

Present wrapped -

The wedding was held at the bride's family home.  Bride arrives

The happy couple during the ceremony

Then rain fell so we all moved into the marquee to continue the ceremony.  It poured on and off all afternoon.

The wedding cake

The bride is so very clever - she made the wedding cake decorations and all the table decorations - they were beautiful -

With the mother of the groom and a dear friend.  The weather started to clear as it was time to leave.

Beautiful wedding in a beautiful setting.

For Sale - SOLD

While tidying up my fabric cupboards I came across this kit (Quilt Aid 2009, Bluebirds of Hope) that I won't get around to making for quite some time, so I'd like to sell it. In the kit are all fabrics and patterns to complete the twelve (12) blocks, one finishing kit (including pattern and fabrics for a central block) as well as 4 yards (minus a 3" square cut from one edge) of backing fabric from the same range as the kit.  The backing fabric is the background of the photo.

All up it cost me a bit over $440 Australian for the kits and backing fabric. If anyone is interested in buying the quilt kit, please email me with an offer. I will pay postage (domestic or international).  Most of the pattern packs have not been opened and they have been stored in a smoke-free/pet-free house.

Bullseye

Bullseys is finished!  I'm tickled pink with how it's turned out.

 

 (Might have to hire a new quilt model.)  The quilt measures 66" x 84" and sits nicely on a queen sized bed.

I'll sew the labels on tonight then it can be wrapped up for the wedding tomorrow - I hope the weather tomorrow is as beautiful as today.  Plans are for the wedding to be outside.

Block 5 Tail Feathers

I'm hoping to piece blocks 7, 8 and 9 today then trace the stitcheries.

Progress

One more row of blocks to go then I think I'll ditch stitch around the bullseyes.

Quilting

Block 4 Tail Feathers