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, November 21, 2011

A start at last.

At last I have started my SKOW.... I hate that name so I call it  "wonderful" sounds so much nicer I think..... sorry Chooky lol.



so on to the next part.
Its great watching all the blocks in different colourways.

Helen

9 comments:

Cheryl (aka Kayly) said...

This block looks wonderful. Let me guess you have done needle turn before. I can only aspire to your standard.

Helen said...

Yes Kayly I have done it before and I enjoy it too.... silly me some might say.

Helen

Anonymous said...

they look truly scrumptious

Quilt Kitty said...

Lovely block & nicely styled with all the pretties around it. xx

Annie Bee said...

They look wonderful.......LOL

De said...

Looking "wonderful" Helen!

Love Bears All Things said...

What about MFT? My Favorite Things is the name of the quilt, right?
I like your block. I was thinking today, I need to square mine up and work on the patch work.
Mama Bear

Susan said...

"its all in the name" isnt it - what3ever we call it we all seem to be having fun together

Chookyblue...... said...

I picked that as Anni also has fabric and another quilt with the same names so to save confusion I used the book name..........you can call it what you want........lol.......nice block..........