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........

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Done!!!

It's 11.32pm in Saudi Arabia and I am done! I didn't think I'd make it... but I did. There were a few casualties along the way, however. See if you can spot the problems:


Sorry the photo is a bit dark, but my camera doesn't work well at night... anyway, I didn't spot the problems until I was quilting the bottom right hand corner and then... well, it was way too late. So I decided not to stress but do as the Amish do and say, no one is perfect, only God.... I think however, that rather than having a humilty "block" in my quilt, I could count the whole thing as a humility "quilt" :) Ah well.. I like it anyway!

I got the label on. My first ever label!



A big thank you to all of you for encouragement along the way. I have made new friends, and enjoyed the journey. And a HUGE thank you to Chookyblue for cracking the whip - otherwise this would have ended up being yet another ufo!!!

To all those who have finished - well done! To everyone else - keep going! You can do it!!! Now I am off to bed.... night night..... and Merry Christmas :)

xxx Joy from Joy's Quilts

10 comments:

Chookyblue...... said...

lucky the time zones keep moving around the globe...lol.....huge effort from your very recent previous post..........your did it.......lovely quilt.......I did have to look hard to see what was wrong........enjoy your quilt hanging at Christmas.......enjoy your sleep.........thanks for being part of the SAL..........

Fiona said...

Oh well done Joy... it's lovely....took me a while to spot your mixup and I think I wouldn'thave noticed if you didn't say..... relax and hope you get a sleep in...
Hugz

Quilt Kitty said...

Well done, love the cute border fabric. Tracee xx

Anonymous said...

well done Joy,lovely finish

Love Bears All Things said...

I'm sorry but I didn't spot it and I was looking for it so just enjoy the quilt.
Mama Bear

Vicky said...

Congratulations on the finish Joy. It's great, and I can't see a problem with it either :-)

Nicky said...

Lovely Joy, well done on getting it finished, it looks fabulous!

Joy McD said...

Thank you ladies! I am so glad I finished it.... and also glad that some of you can't see the glaring mistakes, lol!!
lv,
Joy

Susan said...

A finished quilt is SO much better than a UFO - and mistakes just prove we are human!! It can be your little bit of quirkiness. Well done

Susie said...

Congrats - yr quilt looks wonderful! Susie