"Let Me Be"

"Let Me Be" was finished last night when I sewed on the label.

The quilt is a pretty reminder of a great trip we took with Diann and Bill in January 2009.

Let Me Be

In February 2009 I started making "Let Me Be" designed by Quilt Soup.

The quilt top was sewn together in March 2009 and sat in the sewing room till November last year when it was basted ready for quilting.  Quilting didn't start until last Saturday afternoon.

Ditch-stitching the blocks and borders
For some reason Blogger refuses to load this photo correctly today - I've tried 3 times

Outlining the appliques and meandering

Backing - 3 Sisters "Sanctuary" (Moda fabric)

Quilting was finished Sunday evening.  The binding is ready to be sewn on but it was too hot last night.  This quilt is a departure for me from colours I usually choose - there's a lot of mauve.

We have had a couple of changes at home and some furniture has been moved from one room to another.  A desk became free, so it's been re-painted and is in the sewing room to hold the embroidery machine.

Summer has arrived in Australia with a vengeance - so hot in many areas and cyclones are causing more devastation in Queensland.

Saturday Afternoon ...

... in Wonderland.

Knitting has been packed away for a little while - might start to sew all these up at Tuesday Night Stitching.

The embroidery machine was cranking out Christmas stitching

while I pinned a quilt ready for quilting - this top has been finished for well over a year.

Late in the afternoon I visited a friend who was recently in hospital for minor knee surgery.  She was going to a 70's themed birthday party and asked me to paint some flowers on her face - paint and I aren't friends - she was happy with how they turned out.  Hope she enjoyed the party.

Visitors

Two weekends ago John's sister, Joanne, visited from Coffs Harbour. John's Mum and Joanne came over for Sunday breakfast and Jenni joined us.


On our way to Sydney yesterday afternoon we passed this fantastic old motorbike - it has a stick for gear changing.

We had dinner with Elizabeth, Matt and Michael at a lovely Hungarian restaurant - delicious. Following on from Sharon's example of photographing food, this is Matt's dinner - feed the man meat.

This afternoon we picked up a new bed for the pink bedroom (Jenni's room when she was a little girl). Love this bed and my "Ruth's Quilt" (designed by Leanne Beasley) really suits it.

"Let Me Be" is together (took this photo at dusk - I have no idea about lighting etc).

I think this quilt will be nice on the new bed when it's finished.

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Stars, Hearts & Birds

Take some simply patched fabrics, trace stars, hearts, birds and wings on the back; add embroidery, buttons and beads

Sew around the traced outlines

Cut out the various shapes and spend an evening with your daughter stuffing these shapes

and we have "Christmas in July", Kookaburra Cottage's contribution to last year's Christmas Club. Next time I'll have to be more choosy when placing the pattern pieces.

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This is the centre panel of "Let Me Be". All the blocks are together. Next step is to make a decision about border fabrics.

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Quilt Soup

"Let Me Be" designed by Quilt Soup Pattern Co. These blocks have been my lunchtime stitching over the last few weeks (2 more to stitch):


and these blocks have been my evening stitching:

This quilt is being made from 75% stash fabrics - mauve is not a colour I use and I needed some more pale greens. Diann (who shall remain blogless) and I bought this pattern from Steph's Patchwork when we visited Moruya in January - that shop is a stitcher's/patchworker's heaven.