Wonkiness!.

You may have noticed a bit of wonky behaviour on this blog of late culminating in my completion of 11 wonky houses!

Before that I was tempted into wonkiness first by the lovely Susan and her brilliant wonky star quilt which she exported to Finland I think! 




And then I was drawn into it by the innocent seeming Judith with the first block in the Bee Blessed bee.  This resulted in some Wonky Star Bee blocks, 
but continued into twinkle !  A baby quilt I made and have now handed over to baby Alia!

I wanted a little more wonkiness in my life and signed up for the Wonky Houses Swap.  Well it appears that even that amount of wonkiness has not sated my desire for one step short of madness so the next round of Wonkiness has been announced and we will be continuing in our wayward ways but focusing on trees next.


This round is open to you all to sign up but will be run differently.  We make either 4, 8 or 12 wonky tree blocks in green, or coloured fabrics or both !  We send them to Jane and she kindly redistributes them!   This round starts on 1 March and we must get our blocks to Jane by 1 May.  Fancy joining us? 


The information on Round two is here! 


There are more rounds planned...for more information on those click here! 




Join me if you will in the wonky world....

Sew & Bee Happy!

I joined the Sew & Bee Happy bee after a little chat with Kat at Mumma's Time to Create when I divulged that one of my goals this year was to join a bee!


I then chatted to Cindy @ Fluffy Sheep Quilting and she brought Judith @ Rags to Bags in with her!  Yeah!


So having had a bit of a wobbly joining a bee where I only knew one person I find I am in a happy little group of known people and feeling quite at home!  Not quite so scary then going to meet the new ones!


Anyway Cindy just dived straight in and is Queen for January and asked for this block (hope you don't mind me borrowing this photo Cindy from your fluffy blog ??)

from this book

Well I was back to feeling intimidated but when I actually got down to it, it was only a little bit more difficult than the wonky blocks I had done for the twinkle!  baby quilt.


So here are my blocks 

Hope Miss Cindy likes them!?   


Couldn't resist Miss Fluffy Sheep.....it sort of expresses how I feel about joining the bee and meeting friends and making blocks I thought were going to be hard but weren't quite impossible after all!

Twinkle! top complete!

 Sorry about the photos today - the weather is windy outside and a bit gloomy.   Autumn is definitely on it's way!

As you can see all stars are completed and here are the few extra for Bee Blessed. 


This is a worthwhile cause if you feel like joining in.   I'm sure you still can at the Bee Blessed Flickr Group!  This month was wonky stars but Judith will be giving us another block to tackle next month to challenge us and keep the fun coming!

These will be flying over to Ireland!


All my stars are joined together.  All ready for layering ...but maybe a border needs to be added??  What do you think?  It measures 42" square.  Is that big enough for a baby quilt?

I was wanting to add baby's name but hadn't decided how!  Still don't know but it may well depend of whether there is a border or not....I have already had some suggestions but keep them coming.....all ideas are welcome...

Twinkle, twinkle ....

2 little stars in my baby constellation quilt!

More matrouyshka fabric, lots of dots and yellow pointy bits!  I will keep going until the fabric runs out or I have enough blocks to make my baby quilt. 

The blocks are 10.5" finished and I was thinking if I made 9, 12 or 16 I'd have the right size and could always add a border or two on if not.

Only had to use the seam ripper a couple of times with these so think the penny is dropping but lots more time to make mistakes yet.  


Somewhere on the quilt I would like to include the baby's name - pieced in, appliqued  or embroidered on - not quite sure yet ....if you have a view let me know.  


Twinkle, twinkle little girl!

ok so I've started another new quilt!

After a flurry of name tagging activity on Tuesday I discovered that I didn't have any school shirts for my son - oops!  Fortunately a quick visit to town solved this problem and we were back on track for all three to attend school yesterday!

On Wednesday my son was on an induction programme which continues for the rest of week with team building exercises and a treasure hunt around the school grounds.  Proper school work doesn't start for him until Monday!

With all this activity there was again not much time for sewing - apart from more labels for the shirts and some trouser shortening.

Thanks for all your suggestions on baby quilts.  I will need to browse a few blogs to see the examples but I did get around to cutting out some wonky star blocks and stitching them together.

There is something about this block that messes a bit with my head.   Normally we spend so much time trying to get things right that it feels strange to deliberately be 'getting it wrong'!   I am guessing it gets easier the more blocks I do - at least that is what I'm hoping!

I did manage a few wrong things I was not supposed to do, like forgetting to trim off the excess - this way up it looks ok 

this way up not so good  had to trim off the excess with my scissors!

Never mind I have made a couple of blocks for Bee Blessed and these will wing their way to Ireland and I will persevere until I have enough for a baby quilt.  I may even manage a few more for Bee Blessed before I am done with this block.

As Judith suggested I am following this wonky star tutorial at The Silly BooDilly Blog except the squares are 4" not 4.5".


The setting for my little quilt will be the next thing to consider....but I will wait until I have a few more blocks to  play with.