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........

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Finished, Finis, Done

Someone is trying to get in on the action...


Finished hand stitching the binding down last night....


 Sorry about the quality of the photo..it was still quite dark
inside when I made this photo....
I wasn't too sure of the second border as the
Penguins are large and don't show up
too well, but I liked the darker
blue and it continued the snowflakes
pattern that is on the lighter, first 
border...then I found this red with
snowflakes and decided it would be the
binding, pulling the red from the second border
and finishing with more snowflakes...


I chose this for the backing because I prefer
a lighter fabric which doesn't highlight my faults
in quilting.
Its a cute little quilt.
Mama Bear
Sammie

9 comments:

johanne said...

I LOVE your blue quilt.It is verry nice lokking

johanne said...

I LOVE your blue quilt.It is verry nice lokking

Fiona said...

Great finish Sammie... I love it in the blues.. and that backing is such fun too!!

Hugz

Queen Of The Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries said...

It is very cute Mamma Bear...the red really shows it off!!!

Susan said...

Lovely - mine is in blue too - I must finish it - its 1/3 quilted so really no excuse. (But then I am not in the SAL so Chooky didnt crack a whip over me)

Kris said...

I like the blue. All these quilts just look soooooo different!

Sharon - Lilabelle Lane said...

WOW I Love the blue. Congrats

Chookyblue...... said...

very cute........lovely blue.........have fun hanging this one at Christmas.......wonderful to see it finished.......thanks for being part of the SAL..........

Jindi's Cottage said...

Love it all in blue...looks great...well done...