Firstly, I found my fabrics and a rather cute box to use to store the project in.
The creams came mainly from the stash, but I cheated and visited Anni’s shop to buy the coloured fabrics.
Nothing more happened until Boxing Day when I finally made a start. I cut all the appliqué block backgrounds, traced the pieces onto vliesofix and cut whisperweft until I ran out of both and then stitched until I needed more matching threads.
Now that I’ve been to the shops, I spent all day yesterday working on the quilt, without doing a stitch. I do have all the appliqué blocks prepared to just stitch and have enough little squares and strips cut to keep me going for a while.
At least the first block is now completed. Hopefully, I’ll be caught up by the end of January.
I’ve really enjoyed playing with all the blocks and can’t wait to have some more finished.
Cheers
Janice
7 comments:
So pleased I'm not alone doing blanket stitch on the machine, your fabrics are so pretty and you are so lucky to visit Annis shop!
Lisa
I am also doing machine blanket stitch. Lovely fabrics - then again they should be coming from Anni's shop! Great looking blocks.
All your blocks are beatiful and the box to store them is ideal for that purpose.
Have a nice monday
I SHOULD have done machine blanket stitch. I'd be a whole lot further down the track, if I did.
Glad to see you have joined us. Are you going to GDITC 2012? If so, bring some stitching. I'm sure there will a group stitching it somewhere on one of the cabin verandahs.
Great work Janice - you will enjoy this immensely!!!
Welcome! You're prep work looks great as does your first blocks.
Mama Bear
all that preparation will pay off Janice.......looks good so far and I hope you have had time to get some more done during January.........
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