A mid week finish

If you in that group of peeps that's easily offended by the word, thought, or sight of 'BATIKs'

please look away now, I make no apologies, in fact, I embrace living dangerously  :) 

Finally I got the binding sewn down on my Double Delight quilt, a Bonnie K Hunter mystery quilt ...

made completely out of batiks (on the front)

AND

completely from stash!

on this quilt I tried out the free form baptist feathers, a mixture of baptist fans with feathers, and in true free form quilting, they go in opposite directions in each row of quilting ...

and the thread is a Superior Lava variegated #215 Diamond Head

you can see how it plays so well with all the colours in the quilt, remain more about texture, and less obvious in the overall look of the quilt .... lovely

I love this pattern :) 

and I know you always want to see the back ...

Quilt is about 80" x 90", top made in 2008/2009, quilted much earlier this year and now done!

That's a UFO off my list!  and a little dent in the Winter Stitching List!

tomorrow ... November will be done for another year ... sigh

Sunday Catchup!

I feel like I've really neglected my blog and all of you lovely readers, you know how it its ....

... Life!

School holidays, Easter, Royal Wedding, May Bank Holiday, horrible lurgy thing...

... but in between all of that I extended my frame to 10' (thanks to Martha!) and managed to get this mahoooosive piece quilted for a dear friend. 

I also got a little package in the mail!  All the way from here!

Mmmmm, made me all Giddy! 

I made a little gift for a friend, she may or may not receive it this week in the mail...

You know how the old post office advert went, 'I saw this and thought of you!'

And yes...

... a ruffle! All done by hand and lots of pins!

There was plenty of cutting for bees .... these below are for the Many Jeans, we are meeting again tomorrow so I await to see how they all got on.

And the Giddy, well that got sent off to all the lovely Calendar Girls of the Brit Bee!

I can't show you my blocks, we are keeping them secret till they have all been received. Then I will give you the big reveal  :)

I finally got my Double Delight quilted

Pattern is by Bonnie Hunter and was her mystery quilt for 2008, and whilst I kept up with the quilt along, I have put off quilting the top until I was more confident on my frame.  Bonnie quite frequently uses the baptist fan pattern for her quilting, and whilst I love this, the limitations of working on a 9" harp makes this quite a challenge.  I wanted to do a mixture of baptist fans and feathers...

Not too bad, and would definitely do this again.

As much as I have plenty of (really too many) projects on the go, I just got a hankering to start something new!  I've been musing Hexagon Park over for some time, and Lynne of Lilys Quilts and I had a discussion about using Arcadia for it.  Well it was time to jump in!

I've just got the pieced border to add, it's all cut and ready to go!

Speaking of that clever lady Lynne, she came up with a blinder of a pattern in celebration of the Royal Wedding.  Part of the challenge was to be unafraid of colour.  Not something I'm known for!  lol

And sitting in my stash has been these half meter cuts of Heather Bailey Pop Garden ...

you like?

And so here is the little project, only 22" x 29" so just a little Double Fat Jack!  I have a few more to go.

And whilst making the DFJ, I dug these out, just for Lynz to oggle at some more!

Enjoy!

Happy Quilting!

Double Delight Progress

I made good progress with my Double Delight over the weekend. I finally decided on corner blocks. I hadn't retained my left overs from the nine patches. I've agonised over the corner treatment, whether to put something in, or to keep them plain. I am completely out of cheddar so this was not an option, no matter how good it would look. I felt that some sort of star would be in keeping with the blocks of the quilt. But which one? Low and behold I found this 'Hope Star' in Judy Hopkins book Around the Block. The soft pink of the setting triangles works well with the border fabric and the blue echo's the square in square blocks of the quilt. Attaching the blocks and borders late at night is never a good idea. You know its time to stop when you've sewn the final corner block on the wrong way round, twice! It was late, well that' my excuse and I'm sticking to it :o)