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........

Monday, July 4, 2011

June Blocks & Other Pretty Things...

After 2 weeks without my usual laptop & then getting it back from the repairers completely wiped & with a new, hopefully non-faulty hard drive I am back and slowly trying to reinstall software, find email addresses, recreate favourites & now catch up on some blogging. They are such wonderful machines - when they work.

So here are my blocks I did finish in June;



And I have finally done something with my 4.5 inch reject blocks. I'm not totally happy with it & will replace the little sprig of holly when I find something just right to go in those spaces. I also did the little Christmas cover for my cat hanger but think he needs a bow on his tail too to be truly festive.



I also made one of the small pillow which turned out gorgous, great little gift;


The last 3 stitcheries have been done in the last few nights & are awaiting their borders. At last a project that I am confident will be completed, not just the stitcheries done & then in the box with the other orphans to await a much later finish. Already looking forward to the next SAL!

Happy stitching
Tracee xx

6 comments:

Chookyblue...... said...

Tracee your doing so well........nice blocks and I love the look of the reject blocks...........2 wonderful projects........

Fiona said...

Great work Tracee...
Hugz

Anonymous said...

well done Tracee

suzitee said...

Great job Tracee! It really is a great feeling to know that this project is achievable, and not another addition to the UFO pile :)

Vickie said...

Tracee you sure have been busy..your items look great..love your fabric you are using,cheers Vickie

Simone de Klerk said...

Very pretty, all your projects (o: