Monday...itis

The start of another week and the sun is shining today.  Not a lot of sewing was done yesterday as it was football day so the afternoon/evening was taken up driving to Launceston to watch the mighty Hawks.

Before we left home though, I started 'auditioning' fabrics to fill in the four corners of these blocks.

I had this piece of grey in my stash and I think it will go quite well with the black/white within the blocks.

In the other two opposite triangles I will add bright coloured scrap pieces like I have used for the pinwheel

I will 'experiment' a little today and see what happens

Don't you just love this panel I picked up over the weekend at my local Spotlight store.  I will cut it up and incorporate the blocks into a couple of aprons I am making for my 'Out of the Kitchen' Patchwork Apron display at next year's Festival in the Park.  Each apron I am making have patchwork blocks within them, i.e. crazy blocks, flying geese, churn dash, twister, four patch, etc

Wintery Day for Quilting

It's a very wintery day today, raining and cold so I will spend some time getting the quilting done on this selvedge quilt.

In the late afternoon, it will be nice to curl up in front of the fire with a hot cuppa tea and read another chapter of this book which is set on Bruny Island, Tasmania.

Evening time is hand stitching in front of the TV and I am putting the finishing touches to these bees which have been appliqued onto the front of an apron.  

On the Design Wall Today

I thought it was about time I put some blocks up on the design wall and sew them together so I could work out how many more blocks I needed to make a generous lap size quilt.  The blocks are foundation pieced using the block 'Eastern Sunrise' from happyturtlequilts.blogspot.ca.  It is a fun block to do to use those fabric scraps.

While I was in the mood for machine piecing, I also did a few more blocks for this quilt.  I am not sure whether I will put coloured corner pieces or opt for a grey tone but it is looking good so far with lots more blocks to sew.

Twister Apron

Welcome to my Blog.  For my first post, let me show you my recently finished Twister Apron.  So much fun to make and in green tones as it has been made to wear to an upcoming 70th birthday celebration of a quilting friend and the theme is 'Green'