Skip to main content

A Bumper January

I am so sad to see the end of January - I have had a fantastic month with my sewing and I really hope this continues into February. Here are some of the things I've been working on:


Although we are on a break from the Farmer's Wife, I've made five blocks - two I had cut out before Christmas, one replacement (two still to do), one monster block that I had totally abandoned in July and I still don't like) and a 6" version of Swoon.

As mentioned, I gave in to the communal swooning by joining the Swoon Along - it's up to 765 members. I've made 3 in the original 24" size, three in the 12" size, which I love, and my mini 6" Swoon.

I signed up for the Chasing Chevrons quilt along before Christmas and finally made a start in January. I finished this quilt top last week and I have decided to back it with flannel and no wadding.

I also signed up for the Oh My Stars Quilt-along before Christmas. I got the fabric for this project as a Christmas present, and although I am behind, I'm loving the designs and the fabrics really make me think of sring (it's Dogwood Trail from Moda).

I finished a quilt top as a special present using the Melrose range of fabric from Red Rooster.

And I completed one of the first quilts I ever started - the yellow tablecloth - Picasa is refusing to let me include this in my collage, so it gets a photo all of it's own! Thanks to the Friday Night Sew In I fell back in love with this project.
Just don't mention the free motion quilting challenge....

Do you see a theme? I seem to be a sucker for Quilt-Alongs! I'm having a ball and I've already learnt so much this year. Thank you to all the wonderful quilt-along organizers. For more photos on any of the projects, just take a browse through some of my recent blog posts - thanks for stopping by.

I'm linking this post up to Small Blog Meet on Lily's Quilts - check out some of the blogs there too if you have time
Labels:

Comments

mammafairy said…
Interesting selection of projects coming along there!You are clearly loving the swoon!
I popped across from Lily's quilts- so HI there!
1 February 2012 at 17:43
Kelsey said…
Those stars are lovely!!!! And the different size swoons :)
1 February 2012 at 18:45
Heidi Staples said…
I love your stars -- great color mix!
1 February 2012 at 18:50
Leo said…
what is wrong with the table cloth quilt? it must have taken hours to plan on how to put the not so square squares a bit our of place ... making that artistic "un-order" is far harder then sticking to geometric forms and lines ... at least I think so.
1 February 2012 at 21:18
Karen said…
Hi, i found your link over at Lily's. I love your stars, i may have to go and check out that QAL :o)

http://craftsfromkaren.blogspot.com
1 February 2012 at 23:18
Mina said…
Hello, stopping by from the small blog meet. I really love your swoon blocks. I think I may have to join in.
2 February 2012 at 01:24
Dree said…
Here from the small blog meet. You sure got a lot done! Great start to a new year.
2 February 2012 at 05:23
JanuaryT said…
I just popped over from the small blog meet and can't wait to have a look around. Your were productive in January for sure!! I'm loving your swoon blocks and stars are some of my favorites. I'm excited to follow you and keep up with your Farming as well. I just started a couple of weeks ago and I'm loving them so much. When you get a chance I would love for you to stop by and check out my blog as well. I hope your having a great day and that February is as productive :)
3 February 2012 at 03:48
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

365 Quilt Challenge 2016 [A finish]

I can't believe I've just typed that heading! When I made the block for January 1st 2016 I could not have imagined the journey this quilt would have taken me on. So make yourselves comfortable and grab a cup of tea, because this blog post may get lengthy! I'd seen the 365 Quilt Challenge on Facebook. I think every quilter on Facebook must have been aware of it. Loads of my friends had signed up and it kept popping up as a "Page you might like" thing. In the end, in November 2015, I joined the group, had a poke round. Decided it wasn't for me. One of the things that really put me off were the fabric requirements: you needed x amount of dark dark fabric, x amount of medium dark fabric, x amount of dark medium, medium, light medium, light, background.... I just couldn't get my head round those requirements. I'd looked at the mock ups on the wesbite and couldn't bring myself to pick a colour. I put it to the back of my mind. But I had obvious
6 comments
Read more

Hidden Agenda [A Finish]

This is very possibly my favourite ever finish - I know I've said that in the past, but this one is going to be hard to beat. This time last year, I attended a day long lecture/workshop with Tula Pink and it was inspiring. Having not really loved her fabrics in the past (but loved her patterns), I suddenly saw them in a new light, linked with my 2018 new year's resolution to try more fussy cutting). Fast forward 8 months and I confess that my Tula stash has expanded quite a lot. I found some UK shops with older ranges of fabric, splurged on a few destashes and found the odd piece of her fabric already in my stash. The plan was always (and remains) to make a Smitten quilt, but I'm well aware that I have plenty of fabric to make other projects as well! So when I saw the Hidden Agenda quilt pattern by Angela Pingle, this fabric sprung instantly to mind.... and we all know I love a rainbow! And what could be better than rainbowfied Tula? I was ably assisted by my friend Ti
3 comments
Read more

February Embroidery Along [A Finish]

I've really been enjoying my embroidery this year, after not doing very much last year. One of the challenges I set myself at the start of the year was to learn to colour tint my fabric before adding the embroidery - I love buying the pre-printed panels, but I'd like to do this myself as well. And the opportunity to learn this arose in February. Meg Hawkey of Crab Apple Hill Studio hosted a stitchalong to celebrate National Embroidery Month, and the first step was colour your fabric. I bought the pencils she advises,  the blending stumps, something called fabric extender and the pigma pen. And I gave it a go. My first attempt ended badly. Because the one thing I didn't buy was a new, clean paintbrush. So when I came to add the fabric extended, it went all bleary and muddy as, despite cleaning the paintbrush thoroughly, it obviously wasn't clean enough. It was unsalvageable so I started again, and I was so much happier with the results. The practice piece was, in
1 comment
Read more

Labels

Show more

Archive

Show more