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........

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

March Done!



Here is my March section, finished....I have April done except for the strip......I changed "Gardening All Day" to "Growing Flowers" which is what I do because I enjoy the beauty....I do not enjoy gardening....I tried to make my house look like the one we live in with red brick and a red roof...We do not live in a 2 story but I didn't want to change that too much...
On the circle flowers, I learned that if I make a running stitch and kind of gather the ends, it helps to turn them under. I added a button for the center of the daisy.....In the next section, I plan to do a bear where the shoes are....
Sammie
AKA: Mama Bear
Alabama, USA
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6 comments:

Quilt Kitty said...

Wonderful! I agree with the change of words to growing flowers, gardening all day sounds a bit strenuous! Tracee xx

Mar 28, 2012, 1:37:00 AM
Fiona said...

Wonderful Sammie.... such a cheerful quilt...
Hugz

Mar 28, 2012, 8:31:00 AM
Susan said...

Totally agree with this "Gardening all day" isnt it better to sew all day? and have someone else do the gardening?? and besides it makes your hands dirty. Your blocks look great. Must do my little squares and get them joined - so I can post my pics.

Mar 28, 2012, 9:12:00 AM
Kris said...

Your house looks lovely! I love how different everyone's quilts look, but how the same they look too!

Mar 28, 2012, 9:19:00 AM
Anonymous said...

well done.xx

Mar 28, 2012, 9:32:00 AM
laura said...

I do that gathering stitch around the circles too. I use a plastic circle template, gather around edge, pull up gathers around the circle and then steam set with the plastic circle still inside. When you take out the plastic circle before appliqueing the fabric remembers the circle and goes right into shape.

Laura

Mar 31, 2012, 1:20:00 AM

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