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........

Saturday, August 1, 2015

Oh Happy days...

My Augustwork all done... 
Love to have some handsewing when my house are filled with kids and grand kids... 
Aaaand I will son be on the way to this years great happening... 
 The Festival of Quilts in Birmingham. It will be so great to meet some of my friends again. Any of you here in the SAL who are going to ? 
I get more and more happy with this quilt... And to tell the true...I'm in the midle of September LOL...I can't stop sewing.. 
Have a great august all of you and keep up the great work..
See you later.. 
Hugs :-)
PS ; nobody to test the quilt to day...

13 comments:

Susan said...

Wow!! very impressive - enjoy Birmingham - I'm sure it will be a great time - and we have a number of Australian Designers there too.

Peg's Place said...

Oh beautiful! I can't wait to get this far! That's great that you keep stitching with a houseful!

Marlene said...

Wow Laila, looks amazing! Enjoy Birmingham, I have a son in the UK at the moment but I am sure he won't be going to any quilt shows! Will have to rely on you to let us know what it's like! Xxx

Chookyblue...... said...

well done Laila.......this looks wonderful......congrats.......I need to decide on my border colours......fast.......
have a fabulous time at Birmingham......it should be wonderful.......check out the Aussie designers stalls.....oh no need to tell you that as I know you will.......

Laila said...

Hi girls :-)
I will check theAussie stalls...as ursual. ;-)
I'm sorry Lynettes finger keep her from coming this year. I use to say say Hellow to her.. She use to be werry busy... Can you imagine that.. LOL.
And I will show and tell from the trip a little her and a lot on my blog...
So girls be clever and work on ....
See you..

Khris78 said...

Such a beautiful block Laila I love it !!

nimble thimble stitchery-do said...

Laila your block looks amazing! Have fun at the quilt show.

creations.1 said...

It is beautiful laila - amazing how just adding this much changes the look of the centre block - it makes it the 'star of the show' doesn't it!!

SandyN said...

Wow... great job.. It looks great.

The Snowflower Diaries said...

I really love your piece, great colour choice, wonderful harmony!:-)

Susie said...

Wow! this is beautiful. I adore your fabric choices.

Diddles said...

Wonderful , you clever girl ..looks fantastic.
Big hugs Diddles.

Sonia said...

Laila, this is stunning.... makes me excited to get cracking.