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

Top is finished...

My Tis the Season top is finished, and I did get it done before midnight last night. Okay, so it's not quilted and bound but I haven't quite decided yet whether to machine quilt or hand quilt.

I found the problem that others had with the light border being similar to the blocks so I added another border in between to frame it, and I like it because I think it pulls the colours together. I think this stripe is also going to be my binding.


The fabric is Moda 'Adoring' and the thread I used was Cottage Garden Threads 'Plum Pudding'.

I have loved seeing everyones quilts and congratulations to everyone with thier finishes.

4 comments:

Chookyblue...... said...

OMG......I am impressed.........the silent achiever..........looks great.....love the stripey print.......would look great for the binding..........I ditch stitched around the white stitchery blocks.......that's all so far...........maybe tie a few buttons on but otherwise it will do for the quilting........it's only going to hang for a month or 6 weeks anyway.......

Lyn said...

Love the fabric -the stripe pulls it all together...it has been great seeing all the different quilts appear...

Simone de Klerk said...

Congrats on finishing the top!

Susie said...

Gorgeous fabric choice - well done! Happy Stitching, Susie