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........

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Unplanned August Sewing

Last Monday was such a cold and blustery day and I found myself with spare time ... what! ... after getting over the shock I pulled out my 4 'orange' pieces and also my scraps from the appliques. Lots of cutting later I have 51 little squares (spares in case 1 or 2 just won't do) for the diamonds ...


and laying out while I cut the next border, I left this as is sitting on the spare bed to sew together later in the week.


A message from DD on Wednesday meant extra visitors arriving Thursday and the spare bed was required. Some late night sewing after work and the 4 borders are sewn and pinned to the centre ... phew! Now on with the rest of August and admiring everyone's lovely colour combinations.

Narelle @ Pins and Whiskers

8 comments:

Narelle said...

:)

SandyN said...

Wow... great job in starting August.

creations.1 said...

Love that border - the two together is like night and day!!

Susan said...

That looks so effective - probably convenient to have that push to make you sew it all together.

The Snowflower Diaries said...

wow, looks fantastic!:-)

Susie said...

looking beautiful and a lovely contrast

suzeblack said...

Love the contrasting colours! Suze x

Chookyblue...... said...

well done well there is an incentive to clear the spot...........so pleased you got that done before having to move it off the bed.......goodluck with those little squares........