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........

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

As Promised!

I finished up the March blocks this morning
they actually look better here than they do to 
me here at home. I'm not happy with the flower.
It is not centered. I don't believe I will
redo it because I don't think we should aim
for perfection in our quilts. I know
that the original quilters didn't and to me
those quilts are beautiful. 


As you can see, I decided to embroider the leaves on one of the pear blocks.


And I also left out the large circle from one
star and the small one from the second. I liked 
the way they looked without.



Sammie, AKA Mama Bear




6 comments:

Susie said...

great, bright colours there. Gorgeous. I too left out one small circle as I wanted to show off the larger circle fabric more.

Fiona said...

love them... I'm like you and accept imperfections.... I think they add to the charm of the quilt...
Hugz

Susan said...

Lovely colours...I've always gone with the "patterns are jus a guide" idea!!!

nimble thimble stitchery-do said...

I actually like your 'not-so-perfect' flower! It adds character. Very nice!

Chookyblue...... said...

it's only expected that we do the best we can and we are happy with our work....if it doesn't bother me I don't redo.....if it annoys me I redo it.......
and as usually some of us are more fussy then others......

creations.1 said...

If you are happy with your finish then leave it as it is - there is nothing perfect in this thing called life - how boring would that be. A lovely finish!