Civil War block

 

When Barbara posted this weeks block, I just had to jump in and sew it right away

the story just captured me and I had to sew.

Block 28 Next Door Neighbor.

How are your blocks coming along?

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Help…White on White fabric

**** UPDATE****
Mangaed to find fabric that has the same leaves without the flowers it will all blend in yeah..thank you all.


As usual good ‘ol me started a project without checking fabric requirements and am up to the final stages and waaaaaaaaaaaaaah I cannot continue as I will not have enough fabric, does anyone know where I can get some of this fabric

It is a white on white..this piece has some whisper welt stuff attached to the back –so I could get a good picture of the pattern.
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More Blocks

Yeah sewing room is all clean,oops did find some things that should of been mailed-promise to get too that this week..

Am still loving the civil War Quilt weekly blocks by Barbara Brackman, am finding myself waiting on a Saturday night to see what the next one is.

Block 26-Barbara Frietchie Star

Block 27-Irish Chain..

Thinking I will have to try and find some more light colour civil prints or maybe even use calico..

Also completed 2 more blocks in the Farmers Wife QAL.

These teeeny bits are a challenge but I am loving seeing the end result.

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Today is…..

(Yesterday with Hubby’s help the house finally got a good clean yeah-yipee.)

Today is sort out sewing room day, oh me oh my what a messy state of affairs it is-how did it get this way ermmm I’m not sure, oh yes there has been production happening and a bit of laziness busy-ness and well it just looks the way it does.

So as I clean and find projects I am going to attempt to get them   finished. God knows what I will discover under the all the stuffs on the work table.

Hope you have  a fun filled Sunday.

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Farmers Wife QAL

Firstly thankyou to those that have gifted me some 1930’s fabric, some has arrived and makes me go wow at your generosity and wow at how some different fabrics can make my blocks looks so great.

Have seen some of the other amazing girls blocks over at Amanda or Angela’s?

During the week I try and cut out the bits required for a few blocks and then store them in the book on the relevant pages (actually that is were I am storing my made blocks as well), so that as time permits over the weekend I can sew, sew, sew.

Blocks 7,8,9 &10.

I grounded myself to the armchair Friday & Saturday (to try and get this dumb knee to play the game) and managed to knit myself a pair of fingerless mitts –hard to take a picture of your own hand and hubby is busy-so will pop a picture up next post.

This afternoon after I had done the FW blocks I did some secret sewing, but can’t show you a pic or it would reveal the secret.

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Knitting

This extraordinarily unusual cold weather has seen me wanting to knit more and more & my arm thinks that is bad-but I just have lots of rests).

Last night I finished a pair of  Moc-a-Soc’s for me…I bought the pattern from Bekahknits.

Oh they keep my tootsies so nice and warm..

Today I have spent the whole day sitting on my butt as my knee has decided it does not want to play the walking game with out being extremely painful.

So before I started on my next knitting project-I made myself a holder for all my needles and hooks and such.

Oh my don’t we all look neat and nancy—wow why do I have 2 or 3 pairs of each size I own..that won’t be happening anymore..also have 3 of each size crochet hook I own.

Fold the top flap down –protect them things from falling out.

Roll ‘em up and tie the ties..yeah yipee…

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Ziah is growing

 

Look at me I am 5 months old.

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Civil War & Farmers Wife Update

Civil War weekly blocks by Barbara Brackman .

Block 24 Ladies’ Aid Album.

Block 25 Calico Puzzle.

AAAAAAAAAAAnd I have done a couple of the Farmers Wife blocks too, there is a quilt along happening on Amanda & Angela’s blog-the colours are all so different.

These are the  blocks I have made so far, I am making the blocks as they are in they appear in the book 1,2,3 etc…as I know me and if I did it randomly then when I’d come across a busy/difficult one I would just pass it…hehehe…..

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Oh yeah almost forgot there is another yummy part, Jenny will be sharing delicious recipes too.

Ok I know you probably not reading this anymore because you have jumped on over to ELEFANTZ to subscribe, let the fun begin.

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Button BOM

Small steps when I can and this Christmas Fun Button BOM is getting done…

I have just realized that I didn’t even post #1 and I have just finished #2 of this gorgeous button BOM by Lynette Anderson Designs , that I bought from yep that shop.

Block #1

Them blocks are itsy-bitsy bits, and have tested my patience.

Block #2

Isn’t that wee birdie button so cute…

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Farmers Wife Quilt-along

Yep I’m doing another QAL..

Have had the book sitting here for awhile and when I stumbled across this blog  Fussy Cut I just knew it was what I needed. Would also like to add that this is Edition 1 and if you have it in your possession you may want to check out this blog for corrections.

Since I am making the Civil War blocks by Barbara in Civil or civil like fabrics, I have decided to make the Farmers Wife using 1930’s prints.

This is my wee stash ( I know not enough for the quilt)1930’s prints are not easy to find up here, so if you have some sitting in your stash that you won’t use please let me know. If I run out of fabric then that will be the size it ends up.

Tada just had to whip one of these blocks up, the blocks are 6” finished.

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SAL Tis the Season finished.

I have enjoyed stitching and sewing this..and seeing all the different colours on the SAL blog everyone is using is mind boggling.

Big big thankyou to Chooky for the SAL group-I know I would not of completed this without the group, now I look forward to watching the progress of the others in the group.

I have made mine a table cloth and have the stitcheries going in 2 directions so no matter what way your at- you can read them.

The quilting had me stumped for a while but after looking at it I decided there was enough happening with the fabrics, so I just kept it simple.

I used a lemony coloured thread and the photo does not do it justice.

Head cold is finally leaving me, housework has gone untouched all weekend-but hey it isn't going to go anywhere is it.

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Two finishes

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.

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Civil War Block

And I am still on track with my Civil War weekly blocks posted by Barbara .

Had  giggle to myself on Saturday night when I was reading the story with this block-as I had been sitting down in the lounge knitting, a pair of slipper socks-and I thought hmm wonder if Barbara has posted the new block yet , now you have to go read the story eh?

Block 22 Blockade- Ok I fiddled with this one and kinda made it a tad different.

When these are put together it sure is going to be a large variety of colours..

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Civil war blocks

Oopsie I forgot to post pics of my last 2 blocks, I am enjoying this weekly block by Barbara and her stories that each block represents are great reading.

 

Block 20 –new England , I love how this one turned out-it would have to be my most favourite block I have made so far.

Block 21-Underground Railway.

I find it stunning how there is lots of people making these blocks but no 2 blocks look the same made up, with all the different fabrics people are using.

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Found the photos yeah

Finally woohoo..

Remember I made the quilt out of Bliss Charms, and said I was going to get my money worth out of them well I believe I did just that..

My version of Oopsie Daisy Runner by Jenny..love it

And the other runner I just cut the charms @ odd angles and sewed with a kinda quilt as you go method..

Am very happy to have some nice fresh looking table runners around the house…

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Bargain

Firstly grrr, can’t find where my photos are of my items I finished couple of weeks ago..hopefully that will be rectified real soon.

Anyways I am on a bit of a knitting bug at the moment, and when I went down the street this morning I popped into the Salvos Store and had a rummage thru the habby basket…

I dug real deep right down to the bottom but alas I didn’t find any wool…buut I did find this.

Nice price yes.. but look there is more

There actually is five different colours x10 5”charms=40x5diff coloured 5”charm squares.

AND

What a happy camper I was…

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Wasting Days

Yeah yipee the camera is working…

However you will have to wait for the craft pics-due to

me wasting time trying to do this-was not easy with my stupid knee.

Lots of cuddles in bed with Grandma.

I like my pram Grandma it’s real comfy, can we go now?

All smiles…and if you look at Grandma’s eye you will see that her knee has been robbing her of sleep (I am so over it)..

I will post sewing pics during the week.

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Shhhhhhhhhhhhh & A Giveaway

Headache- neck ache - back ache and yep the knee is still aching.

And my camera has gone and placed its legs skyward grrr,

EDIT EDIT see told you I was having a bad day….I actually purchased it from that other shop –yes I’m an internet shopper and love both these shops equally…Sarah and Pauline both provide prompt –efficient service..

I had set aside today to start my Christmas Fun Button BOM by Lynette Anderson Designs, Which I purchased from that shop again (gosh I love shopping there). I have had this for several weeks and then Christmas Fun #2 arrived and it too has sat on the side of my work bench. I asked myself why I had not started and just could not find an answer so today was the day to start…

And so start I did.

Stop hold that thought I knows why I was reluctant to start..the blocks are teeny weeny=sewing with bits of fabric under 2” square. Oh my It has taken me 4 hours and lots of mutterings to finally get CF #1 at the stage where I can sit and do the hand stitching.

Pffft ok that’s my whinge for the day…

Do you know Lyn from Bluebirdquilts ??? yes of course you do..well she has been blogging for 5 years and has an awesome blogaversary giveaway =lots of yummy reproduction fat ⅛’s just for the winner, oh yeah and there is a request with a difference…go on go have a peek you know you want to –but hey if you forget to leave a comment that’s fine , more chances for me then hehehe…

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Blissful sewing

Ah I just love the Bliss range and I sure got my money out of the 2 charm packs I purchased from that online trap wonderful store.

Thankyou to all who took thought and commented on my last post re the binding.

I ended up going neither of what I had suggested, as I really wanted to make another runner out of the remaining charms. And the thought of the white binding going off colour-well that just wasn’t on my agenda.

I am very happy with how this quilt ended up looking, it originally was going to be a pattern out of Schnibbles times Two however when I cut out 3 different block pieces (that would be the 3 centre blocks in this quilt), whilst constructing each block it worked out I was chopping off 1½” of charm –uh uh quick calculation what a waste. It was then that I decided I would just make this up as I went along…

During sewing somehow I got 3 yuk grease marks on this…I sprayed them with Eucalyptus before washing most of the marks came out, at this point of time I think I can live with the faint marks on it.

Uh uh no Miss Lindi this is not yours!

Sun is shining so bright this afternoon was hard to get a good photo.

This runner is just waiting for me to make up my mind about some stitchery detail.

Aww yep you guessed it moire bliss.

And this one is waiting for me to trace the stitcheries to add to it.

So bright and fresh..

And that’s a sneak peek of another project, oh it’s so pwetty…

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