In a galaxy far, far away....is a quilt!

(Sorry if you are fed up of seeing this one but I was on a roll here...)


After sewing all those completed star blocks onto the galaxy quilt I still had a few diamonds ready cut out.  


I could not make a star out of one or even two of the remaining fabrics - but three or four would make a star so these latest ones are scrappy indeed.  And do you know what?  I think I like them best of all!  

My galaxy is full up now and so I got it layered and basted ready to be made into a quilt at last.... but what did I use for the back of the quilt?  Well it was quilt UFO number 14 which you haven't seen yet......!  Until now ....

I made this quilt top at the same time as the lone star and out of the same recycled fabric.  I had intended to make two quilts for twin beds but decided they go together so well I would just put them back to back!  And the other attraction was one quilt less....makes my target easier to hit I hope. 


I did have to add the piano key border top and bottom but I think it looks good - haven't tried one of those but I know Bonnie Hunter likes them a lot and do you know what?  I do too! 










May the Quilting Force be with you!


Nicky

Doubled again - rose dream!

When I picked this project up again I had thought I didn't like this block that much and that was why I had only three blocks finished, but guess what?   I find that now I do! 




No more it is just the 'sitting by the swimming pool' project!  It has also become the 'sitting in the car during music lessons x 2' and the 'evening listening to the Complete Smiley on BBC i-player ' project too!  






Hence the further leap forward: 3 blocks (see here ) became 6 blocks (see here)  and have become 12 blocks completed!  One third finished!  Yes, I said one third!!

I am focusing on the half-full glass, Marina!  Yeay!  


My next target will not be double again - sorry but I don't think I can keep up that pace, the tip of my finger is already tender with all the hand sewing - but instead six more blocks, which will take me half way!  Yipee!  And I have them cut out and ready for stitching...












Nicky

A galaxy of stars!

Well I am prone to a bit of exaggeration .... but I cannot call my lone star, lonely star nor in fact lone star anymore so unless you can suggest another name that suits it better then it will be a galaxy of stars...

Here it is with the stars I made previously and found hidden away with my leftover fabric .....

...............and I have every intention of adding  a few more.

As the fabrics are recycled, some from Oxfam and some I bought from Worn & Washed, many are quite faded. 

I considered whether I should include them against the white background but then I thought of the stars in the night sky that you can almost see but not quite as distinctly as others and thought these might just have been on a longer journey....?

Hope you like it

Nicky

More Rose Dreams!

I posted about this block here! a couple of days ago.  I had completed 3 blocks during or shortly after the workshop I attended in October 2009!




I am pleased to say I have now doubled my total to six!




Here they are displayed together - not yet stitched together as I am waiting to see how the other blocks will fit in!

I am loving the pattern across the blocks and the dark, medium and light value that is beginning to show with just the two colours. 


What I forgot to tell you before is the white fabric is an old sheet so I am doing a bit of recycling as well.



The quilt pattern is for 36 blocks so I am one sixth of the way there...!  I don't know whether to be happy or sad at this news....???




Nicky

I love scrap quilts!

It's true, but it also happens to be the name of a course I attended in October 2009 at my LQs, this time with Margaret Hughes.

This is a handsewn block worked in two colours.  I have kept to blue and white for my blocks although I think Margaret's blocks were different pastel colours.

I have only completed three blocks but have enjoyed learning the technique of sewing curves. I started making these blocks while waiting for the children to do a swimming class or some such thing.  They do less classes now so I don't take this with me enough, obviously - probably distracted by the two other hand pieced quilts I have now got to the quilting stage.


I have cut out lots of blocks which I haven't succeeded in sewing yet.  It might be quicker if I changed to sewing on the machine but I'm not sure about those curves???

Imagine my surprise when leafing through the Jan Halgrimson book I posted about recently and I saw this:

So now I know the name of the block - Rose Dream - or at least one name...!

As this is my last hand stitching quilt in progress I should really push on with it and get all those pieces I carefully cut out stitched together.

Nicky