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, October 31, 2011

Slow progress on Tis the season

I have finally pinned my Tis the season quilt and hope to quilt it soon...perhaps this week. The quilting is always the thing that takes the longest for me as it is the bit that I like the least!
 I have been collecting some fabrics for my Some Kind of Wonderful quilt. I bought these lovely ones, which are used in the original quilt, at Hatched and Patched last week.
 Then I have added a few more. I am not sure if I will use them all but they all seem to tone.
 Here are some of my backgrounds...they are a bit lighter in real life.
I am looking forward to starting but I promise I won't start until my Tis the Season is done!

9 comments:

Vickie said...

I hear you on the quilting, but hey it will be lovely when done..liking your fabric for skow very nice,cheers Vickie

Linda said...

Loveeeee your fabrics.

Bizzy Martine said...

I'm loving your fabrics!!!

Susan said...

You are far more disciplined than me - way too many UFOs in my place - but I agree about quilting - and I farm it out when I can afford to! great looking fabrics. (how can you bear to wait??)

Anonymous said...

Hello, your TTS is looking good...and your choice of fabrics is a good one....I'm afraid, I just grabbed some fat quarters and other yardage from my stash. I will have to cut some of the patchwork pieces soon...I'm cutting the beige strips as I go but I know there is a lot of patchwork pieces so I need to do some of those to get a jump start...
Happy Stitching,
Mama Bear

FloS said...

Ohhhh ! I love your fabrics !!! They are perfect !
Florence

Chookyblue...... said...

now what are you doing picking out SKoW fabrics when you haven't finished your TTS........come on now...........we need to see a finish..........(gorgeous fabrics by the way).........

Sharon - Lilabelle Lane said...

I love your fabrics. Looking forward to seeing your finished tts, you are soooo close to a finish. Keep up the great work

Cherise said...

The fabrics are beautiful choices! I'm sure you'll get your quilting done soon and then you'll get to start playing with all that new fabric! Enjoy! :)