Seaglass Quilt

I can't remember how many years ago I cut out these Bonnie and Camille 1-1/2" x 2-1/2" strips to make Susan Ache's "Seaglass Variation".

The alternate blocks are a red spot on white cotton.  I started sewing the strips together in early February.

I asked Karen to use Clamshells for the quilting - always a favourite.

The backing is made of two pieces:  Bonnie and Camille's  "Shine On" and Thimble Blossoms' "Lighthearted".

Last October I finished making the blocks for Thimble Blossoms' "Night Sky" quilt and, for some unknown reason, they sat in the Pink Room until early March when I decided to sew them together and add a border.

I made this backing to use for Tiny Nine Patch but it goes much better with "Night Sky".

The binding is sewn on ready to stitch down, hopefully tonight.

Sea Glass

I think this is the third full-size "Sea Glass" quilt that I've made.  I love how gentle and delicate this quilt looks.  It's a wonderful design to use up loads of favourite FigTree little pieces.

I love the "Modern Loops" quilting design and ask Karen (Quilting on the Coast) to use it so often - along with Orange Peel.

First Quilt

My first proper quilt is finished.  The sub-contractor (Mum) sewed down the binding last week and the quilt is back at my place.

I am so happy with how it's turned out and my patchwork teacher was very pleased to see it finished as well.

Each Saturday morning now I'm eager to see the pattern for the Sewcialites sew-along.  I thought that when a block has lots of little pieces, I'd make it multi-coloured using pieces from my solids scrap bag.

It's nice to use up some of those little pieces.

"Patchwork Sky" is together and is being quilted this week.

Love this backing fabric.

The pile of "An Hourglass a Day" blocks is growing.  Really enjoy making these first thing each day.  Think I need 349 to make a quilt ~60" square.  Will have to cut more 5" squares.

I picked up the play quilt from Jenny (AngelCake Quilting) last week and the binding has been sewn on for Mum to stitch down.

I think it's nice to have Mum involved in making a quilt for her 13th great-grandbaby.

The Pink Room is in a bit of a mess - lots of ongoing projects:  Ring Cycles, Hourglass a Day, summer dresses for T, pyjamas for H & G, Sea Glass, Sewcialites.

Plus I've started cutting out another Chinoiserie - need two more large blocks then I can pair up the florals and border strips.  The first Chinoiserie has been claimed by my daughter-in-law. 

When I made the last Bradley Street quilt for Peta's friend's new baby, I cut out extra squares to make another one day.  On Sunday I popped in to Spotlight and bought some more Jocelyn Proust fabrics with the beautiful Australian flora designs and the teal solid to make a full-size Bradley Street quilt one day.  I've added a square of each of the florals to the Chinoiserie pile.

After seeing the pile of UFO's I worked on Sea Glass over the weekend and it's now ready to give to Karen for quilting when she visits on the weekend.  The Stitching Girls are coming for afternoon tea on Saturday - first time we've been together since the start of the year.

Took a couple of days off last week - Mum, T and I visited Jenni and Kurt on Thursday.  So nice to just spend time with them.  Jenni's now 20 weeks pregnant and, although very tired, is keeping well and looks wonderful.

Low Boredom Tolerance

Received an email from AngelCake Quilting yesterday with this picture showing the beautiful quilting on my sampler quilt.  It looks so lovely.  Jenny will be quilting "Chinoiserie" over the next day or so, then I'll pick up both quilts.

Last week the play/tummy time quilt top was finished.

Really happy with how this turned out and I'll add a couple of surprises when it comes back from quilting.  Just waiting for another piece of the backing fabric to arrive then it can be dropped off with Jenny for quilting.

My boredom tolerance has been tested while sewing up all these nine patches.  There are now 333.  12 six patches to make then cutting out 470 red spot triangles.

To relieve the boredom I've cut out some more quilts.  First up is another "Sea Glass" designed by Susan Ache.  I've made three other versions of this pattern and I love it each time.  I had quite a collection of Fig Tree scraps so used those before cutting into my "Catalina" fat quarter bundle.

The Fat Quarter Shop is hosting a sew-along with a block pattern being released each Saturday morning (our time).  I'm using solids that are in my stash - these are the big pieces I have; there may be enough in the solids scrap bag to make a couple of the blocks to add different colours.  The pattern comes with a sheet to colour in so you can work out colour placement in advance - time to break out the grandchildren's colouring pencils.

The patterns are available in three sizes:  3", 6" and 9" finished.  I'm making 6" finished because I have enough of the Moda Bella 97 left for that size quilt.

In August I bought some fabrics from an Etsy shop in USA for a "Patchwork Sky" quilt that a customer requested.  This first bundle arrived in about four weeks

and the second bundle arrived yesterday so the quilt can now be started.

Last weekend was very enjoyable - Saturday lunch with the Schoolgirls, T&H stayed overnight then we visited Mum after breakfast on Sunday and Elizabeth and Matt met us there to collect T&H.

And some more ...

Sampler block sewing last week - I think I have enough larger blocks.  I found a little bag containing 19 Dresden plate petals, so only needed to make one more petal, find fabric for the centre and background and a Dresden Plate block was done :)

Dresden Plate

Also had a bunch of left-over half-square triangle blocks:

Sweet Escape

Trip Around the World

Next Up

Seaglass

Last week was big - two days in Sydney for work.  Lovely surprise in my hotel room on Tuesday night:

and then Michael, Peta and Gulliver moved house last Thursday.

Michael and Peta are expert packers and these removal guys are fantastic (Chad's).

Picking up two quilts from Karen last week:

"Dashing"

"Happy Scrappy Baskets"

Another "Seaglass"

Bound my third "Seaglass" quilt on Tuesday night.

The first one was made as per Susan Ache's pattern in her book "Starts with Strips".

The second quilt was a variation on the original Susan posted on Instagram and was given away yesterday.

And the third is a lap-size quilt - started because I cut too many pieces for the Variation quilt :)

Saturday is Jenni's Bridal Shower and this photo came up in today's facebook memories of us getting ready for Peta's Bridal Shower 7 years ago.  Jenni is going to be a beautiful bride.

After almost 9 years making "Sylvia's Bridal Sampler", I will be picking it up from Karen tonight

and dropping off "All Wrapped Up" for quilting (which has been finished for a couple of months).  I have three quilts away being quilted by Sarah in Tasmania, so there will be more binding to do over the next weeks.

In between wedding sewing there has been some progress on "Nine Patch Waltz" blocks - lots of chain sewing and trimming with this quilt.  I think I'll make some "Summer Moon" blocks tonight.