Two quilts finished.....

It is hard to believe but after about 4 years these quilts are completely finished! Vignette and In My Garden are bound and labelled! Whew!

Vignette and In my Garden are quilted!!

On Monday I went to pick up my quilts, Vignette and In my Garden, from my very talented quilter, Robyn of Plain and Fancy. I had chosen thread colours but really couldn't imagine how she was going to quilt them so left it up to her! She had done the most amazing job of both of them. I am so thrilled with them as the quilting has added so much to the quilts. You can click on the photos to make them bigger if you want to see the detail.
Here is Vignette.....almost finished other than for the binding.

 And here is In My Garden!

I am amazed at how Robyn can quilt so beautifully and also artistically work out what will work!

In my Garden and some show and tell

It is hard to get back to normal after all the excitement of Alice's arrival. She came home to her house on Tuesday and they came to visit us on the way and I was at work! Here is the little lady in her capsule.

So back to some stitching. I am thrilled to be able to share my In my Garden top. I procrastinated so much about adding the borders and am thrilled that I have finally stitched them on. Ta da! Here it is.

 I have also finished this little Anni Downs' needlecase. These patterns include the  little preprinted pieces of fabric, which is so tempting.

 The class ladies have been busy too, Colleen has made another bag with her gorgeous, leftover, French General fabrics.

 Roni has made her stitching day project into a vase cover. It has turned out well.

 Margot has finished her sewing tools tote as well. Well done, ladies.

Some progress

I have been working slowly on quite a few projects. There is progress but it seems very slow. Wish I could just concentrate on one thing but I do enjoy doing a variety of different stitching and hand work. There has been a bit of secret stitching going on this month for Stitching in the Hills in August. It is being held on the 1st to 3rd August and is always a wonderful time of stitching and fellowship. There are still some places if you are interested. Email me for the details. Here is just a little glimpse of one of the stitcheries.

We are using a gorgeous range of fabric called Mirabelle and it has been fun working with these lovely fabrics. Other than that I have been working on a few ongoing projects. My scarf is coming along nicely and I am about half way now!

 I finally sewed together the last row of hexies for the Chateau Hexagon quilt.

 After having the centre of the In my Garden BOM done for months, I added the first of three inner borders. I hope to get the second one, which isn't pieced, added today.

 The second jumper for the little men is going well too. Just the dreaded sewing up and the neck to do now.

 This lovely cushion was brought to class on Wednesday night by Barbara. Hasn't it worked out well?

Some progress

I am so enjoying stitching these blocks in the Chateau Hexagon BOM by Lynette Anderson. Couldn't resist starting this one straight away! I just love the geese.

 FINALLY..... I put together the last block of the In my Garden BOM by Anni Downs. I can't believe that I left this for so long. It is almost a year since I touched this UFO and it didn't take very long to put together.

 It is always lovely to see what the ladies have been stitching on Tuesday and Wednesday. Shirley has finished her cushion from last year's retreat and bordered it with lovely fabric. Looks great, Shirley.

 I do love the buttons she has put on the back as well.

 Roni has been busy too and finished her Santa hanging and has framed it. Another lovely decoration ready for Christmas.

A bit of stitching

I have been trying to do a little stitching and piecing over the last week. I had stitched the little stitchery from Tis the Season for this lovely bag so spent a pleasant afternoon playing with hexagons and Lynette Anderson's gorgeous "Scandinavian Christmas fabric.

 Here is the front of the bag.

 I also couldn't resist continuing to stitch this lovely block from Some Kind of Wonderful.

 These little chooks were appliqued too ready for my last block of In My Garden. I would love to get this block done by the end of May and that quilt would be almost finished!!!!

 Lastly, I headed into the sewing room and finally, after much procrastination, put the patchwork border on this side of Vignette.

It is nice to see a few things getting done. Classes at Hobbysew start again this week. Looking forward to seeing everyone again.

Stitching progress

I really have been stitching over the last few weeks! I have been slowly working on block 8 of In my Garden and here it is. Only one block to go! I really so love this block but it was very time consuming to stitch.

This week I have been focussing on my April, Some Kind of Wonderful blocks. Here is the tree. Thanks,  Anni,  for the very tricky needleturned flowers! 

 I am now working on the stitching on the rainbow block.

These are such lovely blocks and it will be a delightful quilt.

Lovely stitching, chocolates and a little progress

We had a lovely night of stitching on Wednesday night. Barbara had finished this very special little Easter bag. It is so gorgeous and you can get the pattern for free on the Red Brolly blog. 

 Sally had finished her Garden quilt. Doesn't it look wonderful?

 Sue very kindly brought along these tempting chocolates to share with us!

 I realised that I hadn't shown the progress on my "never ending" (it feels like that) BOMs. I have been plodding along with In My Garden. Here are some of the parts of block 8.

 Here are the carrots.

 These strawberries are on the last applique part of this block.

 March is nearly over so I have been trying to get the blocks done for the Some Kind of Wonderful quilt. Here is the house. I have the flowers prepared to applique so I might just make the deadline!