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 29, 2012

Ooooh...I might even make the Ausie deadline too!



I am so excited...I took my quilt to my 'long arm fairy' on Thursday past and just got it back today!  Wow...that was fast.  I am so happy with how she quilted it.  Basically a vine of lazy daisies in the stripping and pieced block areas.  No quilting other than an outline within my appliqued blocks.  I think it looks good although she though maybe we should do a few little loop-de-doos with in the blocks.  Anyways, I am so excited to have it back in record time...now it's all up to me to get that binding on within the hours left.  The window is closing...yikes!  Chooky this is so much fun...not only the making of the quilt but being part of a lovely group of ladies from all over the world...although the Ausies do dominate, dont they?!  Well I have thoroughly enjoyed being a part of this group for a second year.  I am hoping and praying there will be a third.  Off to prep my binding now.

5 comments:

Chookyblue...... said...

woohoo..........love the quilting..........goodluck with the binding........

Susan said...

Looks great - Quilting fairies are great aren't they? I'm sure we'll see it all done very soon.

Sofia Amaral M. said...

Love de quilt!
I am hoping and praying too there will be a third.

Theresa said...

Love the quilting, the daisies are gorgeous on your beautiful quilt. I too am hoping that there will be another SAL for us to take part in.

Fabric Quilt Shop said...

Love the 2 fairies. This is my granddaughters favorite part. I dreed your next step. Somethimes I would just like to skip the binding.