Seasons Greetings

happy stitching jenni

Fabulous 50

This week saw me turn 50 [yikes]

It doesn't sound good, but I loved every minute of it.

Lots of good wishes, hugs, gifts, outings,

surprises, tears, cards, calls, meals, cakes and a few drinks.

I LOVE IT.

birthday flowers 

and my gift to myself

"Star a day"

 piecing started when I turned 48

quilting started when I turned 49

 all finished in time for me to turn 50 

happy stitching jenni

Quiet week

The pace has slowed this week, which is

 always good at this time of year.

So I have been able to enjoy some

slow sewing.

flowers have been added to

the applique centre, and berries have been pinned into place

two stitched down 54 to go.

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A couple of cool nights and the binding is stitched to

the back of the pickle dish quilt.

It is now officially a finish.

happy stitching jenni

Reporting

A few weeks ago I gave a run down of all the projects 

I have on the go at the moment and promised to

 report back at the end of the month. 

So here I am

as I said last week

wickersham is requilted and back up on the wall.

Pickled dish has been machine quilted,

the binding just needs to be stitched down by hand,

I'll wait for a cool evening for that

New York Beauty is also quilted

this quilt has been quite a journey

started a few years ago, long before life took such a change

so this quilt has sweet memories of friends I spent time with

in the beginning of this quilt

more sashing on more farmers wife blocks

slowly coming to the end of these time to start thinking of putting them together

remember this book

this quilt took my fancy but no pattern so a fair bit of thought

and I made my version of a template

and 256 block have been made

from all sorts of reproduction fabrics mostly from my stash 

but some new purchases as well

Next to sew the  diamond shapes in between

no hurry this is an in between project that will come

together in it's own time

my applique panel is coming along nicely despite me 

being very needle turn rusty,

Looking at this photo I think those leaves will

have to come off and be replaced with a stronger colour

That's just a bit more practise.

So November has been very productive

let's see what December brings

happy stitching jenni

Busy

It's almost 2 1/2 weeks since my last post and life has been very

busy in that time.

Work has been super busy and we have celebrated a major 

birthday [not mine yet]  many times. It's not turning a year older that makes you 

feel old. it's all the socializing that goes with it.

So  a report on my stitching,

look where I have been

Somerset patchwork as moved so I had to check out the 

new shop. Look what I found

  

a good mix of reproduction fabrics for the stash

or projects I have in mind

and some great shirtings

Wickersham is finished.

1 inch cross hatching all over, so glad this is done.

but well worth the effort.

So one project finished another out of the cupboard.

This is"Stars hanging about Ingrams"from

Carolyn Konig's book Creating Heirlooms

One Stitch at a Time

I have started with these

that then become these, many more to go yet.

These had been started many years ago and just put away

because I didn't love the center applique,

so I've decided to change it.

This is only the start. Not a stitch yet but I have made a start.

happy stitching jenni

More Sewing

Hand quilting has been the focus of this week

I'm over 3/4 of the way with the Wickershan

signature quilt

I don't think I will get this finished before the nights

start to warm up. But I am stitching most nights trying

to beat the weather.

Other sewing has been at Thursday sewing group

more sashing strips in farmers wife blocks.

Sunday we had family drop in 

so I received these lovely flowers

Iris have always been a favorite and the waratah are such 

an interesting flowers. Lovely combination 

happy stitching jenni

Sewing diary

This week I stitched a little on lots of different

project.

Sunday

hand quilting

Monday

pin basted pickle dish quilt top

fun backing

Tuesday

more backing and wadding

for the folly 

also pin basted

sore fingers by the time this was done

Wednesday

traced some pattern shapes for new and old projects 

Thursday

more sashing strips sewn to farmers wife blocks

Friday

cut lots of little pieces that were traced on Wednesday

more on these projects later

Saturday

a little machine quilting

Since it is the start of the month I will check this post at the

end of the month to see how much each project has progressed

happy stitching jenni