Winner Winner….

So you remember this quilt?

Maybe you do, maybe you don’t.  My clever mother made it.  She who is NOT traditional at all, made a very lovely, awesome traditional quilt.

Well, she entered it into the South Australian Festival Of Quilts, and it was won Runner Up Best Of Show.  And it won the Traditional Applique Quilt section. And three other ribbons.

She won five ribbons altogether and I gather she will not need a car to drive home, she will no doubt float the whole way home.

She didn’t think it was good enough to enter.  I beg to differ.  I forced her.  It’s all about me.

Awesome.

Please leave a message in the comments for Kate, my very clever mother.  I think she’s fabulous and she totally deserves this. 

I’ll post tomorrow and tell you what bling she won!  Though she would be happy with just the ribbon, I think!

Till tomorrow,

Suzie

Where I’m At

Some days I need to piece bright, happy colours, and the thirties fabrics I adore always do it for me.

 

I’ve been plodding away on this log cabin recently (another one of the UFO’s hidden in the depths of my sewing room) and it’s so bright and cheery, I just love it.

I had to stop for a while because I’d almost run out of oranges, however a very quick parcel from twiddletails.com (no affiliation, just very impressed) saved me and I’m now about to head into the sewing room to push on through.

Hope your day has been a sewing one. 

Suzie

2015 Mystery Quilt Part Six

I hope you’re all up to date with your units. If not, just take your time – enjoy the process!

This week we start to put our blocks together. I think you might be able to see a glimpse of what the end result will be.

We need 98 of the Unit C (flying geese) and all 196 of the Unit E (2 ½” squares) for this step.

First of all, you need to stitch a 2 ½” square to either side of the flying geese, as indicated in the picture below.

Chain piece these together and you should get it done really quickly!

When complete, you should have 98 of these units made, and they should measure 2 ½” x 8 ½”.

Place in a ziplock bag and label unit F for now.

A bit more sewing remains still!

Now we need 36 of our Unit D blocks and 36 of Unit B blocks.

Stitch a Unit B block to a Unit D block.

Label a ziplock bag with Unit G and put these 36 units aside for now.

That’s it!  See you next week!

Animal Quilt - Version Two

Further to my post from yesterday (or was it the day before?) here is another version of the lovely Animal quilt.

Again, I apologise for the photos, this was taken shortly before the quilts came down when I remembered I'd forgotten to photograph it.

I note there is a new version of this style of quilt on the Craft Cubby website - it's very sweet too.

Hope your weekend is going well - I spent it with a sick child and a bucket beside us.  Ah, the joys of mother hood!

Till next time, happy quilting!

Suzie

Animal Quilts - more to show you.

By far my most popular post is the one where I showed you the farmyard animals.

That's this post here:

http://sillygoosequilts.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/customer-show-and-tell-update.html

It remains my most popular pin on Pinterest also.

I thought you may like to see some more blocks done in a different colour way.

We had a quilt show over the weekend, and one of the ladies had done two different versions of this quilt.  I'm really sorry for the craptacular photos I managed to completely mess up on my Iphone.  But you get the idea.

I didn't manage to get a fully clear photo of the original quilt, only the blocks.  But you get the idea.

Tomorrow I'll post the other version.

Hope your day is going well!

Suzie

Mystery Quilt Update

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Okay guys, I’ve found the error.

It’s in step three.  I’ve reversed the colours used.  You’re supposed to have flying geese with yellow wings and a blue base, not the other way around.

I’m genuinely sorry for the error.  I don’t know how it slipped through.  I know it means you have a whole swag of flying geese in the wrong colour left over. Again, I’m so sorry.  I hope you can use them on the back, or perhaps in another project.  I’ve now updated all the instructions so hopefully the only ones you will need to reprint are the ones from Step Three.

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I’ve now uploaded all the steps to step five, and I will continue loading the last three from Monday.  I’m in the process of uploading the PDF files (that takes a while to do) and I will update the page with those links when available. 

Thanks so much for your patience, and again – my apologies.

Suzie

Mystery Quilt–Alert!

Stop sewing!

I’m so sorry guys, I’ve made a mistake.

I’m sorting it out as we speak and will repost the instructions as soon as they are fixed.

*edited to add - to save anyone else starting the quilt, I have pulled all the instructions for the weekend.  I'll work hard to get them back up by Monday Australia time.  It's not a massive SNAFU, just one the flows throughout the instructions and it'll take me some time to edit them all*

I'm so sorry guys.  You can tell me off next week for not properly editing my stuff.  Till then, here's a sad puppy.

Gather Ye Rosebuds

I don’t want to scare you, but there are sixty eight more days till Christmas. 

Let that thought settle for a while, while I show you some show and tell.

Once upon a time, when we owned the shop, I had a very dull afternoon ahead of me.

I quickly rounded up the necessary supplies (one could do that when one owned a quilt shop, which is why one is currently drowning in quilt supplies she’ll never use), and stitched this very sweet stitchery in one afternoon.

A quick dunk in a cup of tea and it’s done!

I hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend.  I’ll be back tomorrow with the latest instalment of the mystery quilt!

2015 Mystery Quilt Part Five

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28th October Update:

Okay guys, I’ve found the error.

It’s in step three.  I’ve reversed the colours used.  You’re supposed to have flying geese with yellow wings and a blue base, not the other way around.

I’m genuinely sorry for the error.  I don’t know how it slipped through.  I know it means you have a whole swag of flying geese in the wrong colour left over. Again, I’m so sorry.  I hope you can use them on the back, or perhaps in another project.  I’ve now updated all the instructions so hopefully the only ones you will need to reprint are the ones from Step Three.

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Hi Everyone!  I’m a day late today –no excuses, I just clean forgot.  Sorry!  School’s back now so hopefully life will return to more quiet sewing/computer time.  Fingers crossed.

We’re speeding towards the finishing line today. I do hope you’re enjoying yourself!

This week is a bit of a catch up one, because we are so nearly done.

Firstly, from your assorted blue fabrics, cut (196) 2 ½” squares.

Place in a ziplock bag marked Unit E.

Now, just a little bit of housekeeping to make sure we are all on the same page.

I want you to make sure you have all of the following up to date. When you’re sure – it’s onto next week!

Unit A – 49

Unit B – 36

Unit C – 196

Unit D – 84

Unit E – 196

That’s it!  See you next week!

2015 Mystery Quilt Part Four

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28th October Update:

Okay guys, I’ve found the error.

It’s in step three.  I’ve reversed the colours used.  You’re supposed to have flying geese with yellow wings and a blue base, not the other way around.

I’m genuinely sorry for the error.  I don’t know how it slipped through.  I know it means you have a whole swag of flying geese in the wrong colour left over. Again, I’m so sorry.  I hope you can use them on the back, or perhaps in another project.  I’ve now updated all the instructions so hopefully the only ones you will need to reprint are the ones from Step Three.

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Hi everyone!  Next instalment is here!

There are four more to go. Hope you’re enjoying it!

xxx

This week we should be working with larger pieces of fabrics. Hopefully it should all go together quite quickly. Do you have any ideas yet as to how it will look?

From Background fabric, cut (84) 4 ½” x 8 ½” rectangles.

From Blue fabrics cut (336) 2 ½” squares.

Draw a light pencil line across the diagonal of the blue squares on the wrong side.

Lay this over a white rectangle right sides together and stitch on line. Flip block back and press in place.

Repeat with remaining four sides.

Place in a ziplock bag marked Unit D. You should have 84 of these units.

That’s it!  See you next week!