Desperately waiting for hubby to fix light box so I can finish my last block in the retro BOM by Lyn .(all the windows in the house are louvers so can’t trace that way..so rather than mope (yes I mope) and be idle I got active.
Hooray to me..two quilts finished today,ok all they needed was to be trimmed and binding added and a first for me I didn’t do the meandering quilting .
I have a friend who has a friend (gosh that sounds like a tale).Start again.
My long time friend Jo who lives in Victoria has a friend called Barb, now a little while ago Barb bought a quilting frame & machine, but alas it was too big to leave set up in her house-soooooooo she sent it to Jo’s house to live….and they are having a ball with it..so Jo kindly offered to quilt my tumbling blocks quilt for me.
So I sent it down and also sent another way way old all hand pieced UFO.
(photo taken with my phone)
Today I got the binding all sewn on and I am in love with it.(have now got a template which will make further tumbling block quilts much easier..thank oyu Gloria for the lead on that one.
(photo taken with my phone)
This is that old it had thick polyester batting and had some hand quilting done as well, don’t recall much about it..but definitely had none of the fabric around..so I sued orange for the binding and it makes all the wee orange flowers pop.
Cheers Vickie
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4 comments:
Love that tumbling block quilt, and that "old" quilt looks pretty good too. :)
Two finishes - that's brilliant! I have the tracing of blocks 4 & 5 of the Retro Nine Patch on my list for this weekend, snap. Tracee xx
I really admire the tumbling block quilt - and how lucky to have someone to quilt it.
Wow - two finished quilts is wonderful!! I love the tumbling blocks too...seems we all do! LOL!!
Hugs
Jen
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