Friendship's Garden sashed!

I was hanging up my washing on the line......

and I couldn't resist hanging up my Friendship's Garden quilt and taking a few photos, HSTs and all!

Hope you still like it!?


I do!! 


Not quite finished yet....still needs those applique borders....better get on with it then.

Do you like my name button ....you can make your own at Cooltext (thanks to my son Arthur for suggesting it)

Well no wonder I was bored....

I think I might just have overdone the cutting out of triangles to make HSTs (half square triangles) for my Friendship's Garden quilt as I seem to have this many left over....

You may think this is the same photo as yesterday but I assure you it is not.  My maths was not correct - I was one HST out for each row!


Do you know how many HSTs are in this quilt?  Nope - nor do I but I am just counting ...1,2,3,...11 ...25....37....46....78....99.....150.....200....280!  That's how many and I have finished them all....joined them up....and stitched the quilt top together.


So far so good as they say but I cannot do the happy dance yet - well ok a little one - as I have an applique border to add on and applique is a scary word at the moment as I haven't done significant amounts of needle turn applique since I was doing this quilt in 2005/2006!


Do you want a photo...?


Well here is a teaser.....

More revealed tomorrow after I edit the countless photos I took while ably assisted by Saffy the cat!  Isn't she adorable!??

Great view I think!  And for Saffy too!

I am quite excited this week as I am going to go to Birmingham on Friday, to the NEC, to the Festival of Quilts (FoQ).  I am hoping to put faces to blog names so if you are there please let me know.  I am a FoQ virgin so any tips for a really big quilt show would be most welcome!

Nicky

Pattern

Friendship's Garden by Alma Allen & Cherie Ralston

Still available at Pickledishstore

Previous posts
http://mrsssewandsow.blogspot.com/2011/05/applique-quilt-post-no1.html
http://mrsssewandsow.blogspot.com/2011/05/applique-quilt-post-no-2.html
http://mrsssewandsow.blogspot.com/2011/05/applique-quilt-post-no-3.html






Measurements
Applique block size 20.5 " finished
HST sashing size 2" finished
Skinny accent sashing 0.5" finished


Number of HSTs
280!!

Guess what I've been doing!

Getting slightly bored of cutting out these...

to make enough of these...

to finish off this....

I only need about 144 in total - and I have pieced four rows of 22 HSTs so far.  If my maths is correct I need to add 14 to each row!  I think! 

Put that way it does not seem so bad - I can do this!

Nicky

Bright little houses!

I was so pleased with my little purple house that I decided to make some more. I am working my way through my collection of bright Kona solids and I thought if I was really clever I could use it as my very own colour chart!

Each little house in its Kona colour and I will embroider the name of the colour on or beside the house!  No more trying to work out which colour I want from the screen I shall just check my schoolhouse chart.  Of course there are lots of colours I do not have....yet!

These are Corn Yellow, Purple, Papaya,  Caribbean blue, Tangerine, Chartreause, Schoolbus, Cerise and Ochre






Could become a bit of a village...as long as it doesn't turn out to be The Village.  Funnily enough I have been enjoying looking at Kaffe Fassett's book quilt romance - the setting for the photos is Portmeirion, which was also the setting for the 1967 cult series The Prisoner.   If you don't know what on earth I'm on about this link will take you there!   I am number one!  You are number six!  Sorry they say that a lot!

Not so good today was finding out that the HST strips I had being sewing together leader/ender style while making my houses were the wrong way around!  

Yes I am onto horizontal rows not vertical and they need to be joined together differently so I have a pile of work for my little unpicker!  Wish I had not been so diligent before I noticed....sigh!  Still I managed to sew some together correctly and I have a lot more to make...

Any suggestions of colours to include in my schoolhouse chart?  Only bright colours will do for this one!  




Nicky