1st SAL.....Peg, Dale and I committed to stitching Anni Downs - A Gardener's Journal in March. I blogged about this on my blog thinking maybe one or 2 others may join us and lots of girls indicated an interest so I decided to start this blog where we can all encourage each other to meet the goals set along the way....March 2010 -March 2011...........
2nd SAL ......well so many of the girls wanted to continue on with another project and some new girls joined us and now approx 91 girls are stitching Natalie Bird's Tis the Season. March to Sept 2011...............
3rd SAL....many girls want to stick with the SAL so now we have moved onto Anni Downs Some Kind of Wonderful - My Favourite Things Quilt.......Oct 2011-Oct 2012.........
Where are we now.....
4th SAL 2013...is numerous smaller projects from the previous 2 books Tis the Season and Some Kind of Wonderful plus some projects from Red Home by Natalie Bird approx 60 ladies stitching together.........
2014 we had the year off..............
5th SAL 2015..........inspired to continue we are doing another quilt project.....Anni Downs newest quilt Natures Journey.....
6th SAL 2017.............A Holly Cottage Christmas by Michelle Ridgway.......once again the pattern is in an affordable book so it is easy for everyone to join in...........and you can raid your stash for the fabrics........or lash out and buy a the whole lot........this SAL will be run by Fiona aka Bubz Rugz and Raewyn........
Chookyblue........

Sunday, May 16, 2010

update done...........

Hi Stitchers.........after a busy weekend of sheep work I managed to have some time on the lounge with the laptop this afternoon..........(truth is my body is stuffed from the sheep work....lol)............
 I hope I have updated everything correctly...........I had to catch up on about the last 20 posts.......left lots of comments.......it is wonderful to see you all posting.............in all this we had another 9 blocks completed.........fantastic effort........esp Sylvia as she has finished 2 in this time.........
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The quilt below is Kerri's 2nd round of A Gardener's Journal I helped her get the top together earlier in the year and this is the quilt to blame for me committing to Peg and Dale to make my own and hence starting the blog..........
anyway after visiting on the weekend she is starting her 3rd quilt......yep she loves it that much.........she has to catch up on last months but i am sure she will have that done in no time............she is a wizz on the stitching........

(photo borrowed from Kerri)
a couple more girls have join the group...........Laura and Dot I have added to the sidebar and I am just waiting on replies from 2 other ladies..........
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oh and Lori who started a blog when she joined the stitch-a-long has finally got a post up so head over and welcome her........
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also it is great everyone is leaving lots of positive comments on each others posts......
....not sure if you all aware but some posts get comments up to a week later so if you have done a post make sure you check back and see what comments others have left for you............
Catch you later..............
Chookyblue

5 comments:

Yvette said...

Gorgeous!!! Now this makes me want to get to stitching my blocks right now.

Thanks for all the hard work you do to keep this Blog going.

Anonymous said...

I'm so excited to join you all here. I've been reading all your posts almost since you started and it became absolutely impossible to resist starting this project, even though I have umpteen other projects on the go. You're all doing such beautiful work.

I will have to be patient just a little longer as I have a week or two to wait for my book to arrive. In the mean time, I will have to try and settle on fabric to go into this quilt. Decisions, decisions! :o)

Lolastitchida said...

Wow - that is absolutely beautiful! Thanks Chookyblue for all the hard work you have done for us! Thanks for welcoming me. I am enjoying this stitch-a-long so much.

Helen said...

Wow third quilt.... I'll be glad to get 1 done.... nice to see more ladies joining. Poor Chookyblue with all this blog and sheep work you will never get any stitching done.lol

Helen

Love Bears All Things said...

Thanks for the updates, Chookyblue. This quilt of Kerri's is beautiful. I can see why she is on #3. The stitching is fun. I am working on the last one for A and hope to get my block together soon.
Mama Bear