Show and Tell–Log Cabin

What a horrible weekend, yes?

You don’t need me to dwell on it, there’s enough of it on the internet.  I’ve not been watching TV, I’ve not been surfing the net, I’ve been doing what we all do best in times of strife and stress – sewing, sewing, sewing.  There is nothing like the repetitive pushing through of log cabin blocks when your brain won’t shut down.  I’ve made hundreds of blocks over the past week, but yesterday I just sewed all day.

I don’t have them to show you yet, but I photographed this last week.  You may have seen it before, but this is the finished top.

Made this years and years ago, all it needed was a little bit of touching up. I’ve now done a label, pressed it really well and it shall go back to the depths of the linen cupboard where it once lay.

Keep smiling, everyone.  Chins up.

Suzie

What do you think?

Which colour way do you like most?  I'm leaning towards the second one.

Yes, I started something new.  What of it?

Seriously.  I need help.  

Have a lovely day.

Nature' s show and tell

It's the time of year again, where nature really puts on a show in our town.  All the jacaranda trees are blooming.  We drove past this beauty the other day and I had to show you.

Just beautiful.

Suzie

2015 Mystery Quilt Part Seven

We could put this together in an easy, straight forward fashion, or I could mix it up a bit, and totally confuse you. I think that sounds like much more fun.

You should have (42) Unit Ds left (leaving six units over). We will need those, and also we will need 84 of our flying geese (Unit F).

I want you to stitch a flying geese unit to either side of Unit D.

You should have (42) of these units. We will call them Unit H.

Gather together all of your units previously made and hang on – because next week is our big reveal!

Flimsy done– Barn Quilt

After the excitement of the last post, I’ve not been doing much sewing.  I’ve been plodding through my ironing pile, gradually ironing quilt tops, photographing them, and putting them away.  I’ve not been able to iron much lately, the iron keeps making the house power short out.  Don’t ask me why it does it, we have an electrician coming (oh I hope he turns up!!) but I got myself out of trouble for a while by purchasing a new iron.  I have to buy a new iron every year or so with this problem, which is far too often for me and a definite sign that things need sorting.

So, long story not so short, I finally have some finishes to show you.  Here is today’s:

There is so much more to this quilt that just won’t fit in the photo – a whole row of houses.  It’s a behemoth.  Lord knows what I will do with it now.

It was a sewalong on some blog somewhere.   I can’t even remember where.  I am pleased with how it turned out.  Though the size.  Oh, it’s big.

She who wins state quilting awards (Mother) has a long arm machine and table and is asking me to learn (yeah, in my spare time) so some of these quilts will be used as practice for that, I expect.  It will be handy to know how to use the machine, though never in a million years would I want to do it for other people, like she does.  I’m nowhere near patient enough. 

So that’s my show and tell for today.  It’s a glorious day here in South Australia.  Not too hot, not too cold. I’ve taken the girls to the plant shop and we have brought some veggies to plan this afternoon, so that will be fun.  I’ll have to do my sewing now so I’m not dirty!

Hope your weekend is doing well. 

Happy Quilting!

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