SO am impatiently waiting for my pattern to arrive....

Loving the January finishes and have to admit

was a bit excited to see the J next to my name....

 

I know my pattern is on its way BUT

of course would love to be starting it now...

 

also trying to keep my New Years resolution of finishing workshop

projects - you don't want to know how many of those I have. 

A few finishes and practicing my stitching

 

 

(shh don't tell Anni still have one of her bags to finish from a workshop

at Almond Grove in Loxton from 2008/9)

 

A question for the ladies that have the pattern already -

do we need yardage or would a jelly roll and yardage work?

 

Thanks for all the lovely photos that you are all sharing..

 

Nay

Fabric ideas for 2015 SAL

Hello Girls,


These new fabrics came home with me the other day, they are competing for the winning circle of fabrics for the SAL:-)  I did not find enough very light blue fabrics, so I may change the whole concept of colours, I will see, first I will combine these newcomers with my 'old' stash:-)

 I signed up for a skill-building Craftsy class about free-form techniques with the gorgeous Cindy Needham:
http://www.craftsy.com/class/design-it-quilt-it-free-form-techniques/121  

My pattern is traveling now with the holy post, I hope it will arrive in a week or so!:-)

Have a nice evening!

Maja
The Snowflower Diaries

Chooky's options............

the other day I was out in the Chookshed.........

I was putting things away and quickly grabbed some fabric choices...........

Gardeners Journal I did in blue stitchery and blue and green fabrics...........

Some Kind of Wonderful I did in 1930's plus others thrown in..........

SOOOOOOO..........

Mine won't be the same an Anni's............I like to make my own choices............make my quilt look like it's mine.......individual.....

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Option one...........

brights, some Denyse Schmidt, randoms ones I have collected........

not sure as some are bigger prints and there are not many bigger pieces............

The other options of course is blues............

What do you think Emily..............

I just quickly grabbed these and most are from my Blue Lanterns EPP quilt..........need to find some more light ones to add in but sure I have some just need to locate them in the shed...............

there is a hexagon and a 6 pointed star in the blocks so I just had a bit of a play with the blues................not sure if I will use these yet or even if they are the right size............but getting an idea of the colours together..................I will use them in another project if I don't go with the blues for this one anyway...............

I was thinking of asking Anni for the fabric requirements to share (private email not on the blog) with you but after sleeping on it really we can all wait patiently for our patterns to arrive in the mail.........it's not going to kill us waiting..............

the requirements as I see it...............

lots of scraps for all the applique bits and little squares.........lots of lights, mediums and darks..........the more the merrier.......

several background pieces..............

one piece for the inside border............

What are you thinking? 

raiding your stash, Kits, BOM...........

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How is everyone going on the January project............3 are finished now.............

Catch you later

Chookyblue

Caramel & roses for SKoW's backing

Here I am! I bought fabrics for batting, backing and binding. I bought a Fig tree fabric for backing: caramel with rose. I love caramel... and love acid green!!! And roses are so romantic... My cat loves them, too... Then for binding the shop assistent suggested me to use coral red... what a great idea! It's perfect with backing and it light the top...

And for batting she suggested me "Bamboo"... so soft! Did any of you quilt it?

 

Decisions, Decisions...Finally...Fabric!...

Finally, a decision on fabrics...these two bundles of fabrics from my stash have been with the book trying to inspire me about what to use...

tsy Bitsy by Renee Nanneman of Need'l Love for Andover Fabrics

Where the Wind Blows by Melanie Hurlston of Melly & Me for Creative Abundance...

the decision is both...generally Itsy Bitsy for the backgrounds/cream/beige prints...Where the Wind Blows for the applique...of course bits and bobs may interchange along the way...Itsy Bitsy has resided in the sewing room for quite some time as have a couple of pieces of Where the Wind Blows, in August when I went to Urban Stitches I was coerced into buying the bundle of Where the Wind Blows...OK not so much coerced as when I asked my so called friends not to let me buy it even though it was on special and a great bargain, they all rebelled and convinced me that I needed it!...apparently I did...for this quilt!!!  I've a couple of Cosmo Seasons variegated threads in the floss stash which I'm thinking just may be right for the stitchery/embroidery.

Now to wash the WTWB bundle.

Annette

Jindi's Cottage

My SKofW fabrics!

I decided to take a good look in my stash and look what I found. A lovely FQ bundle of "Fresh" by Deb Stain (moda). I love these happy colors and hope they will bring my quilt a touch of summer!

Maria

My Fabric for Tis the Season

I have been keeping a very low profile these days as I am a little embarassed that I have not gotten anything done for this yet...  I was at club a week or so and I found my fabric.  I love what I have picked and I can't wait to start, seeing how I am a month behind or 2 to some of you...
The fabric that I have picked is called Fruitcake by Basic Grey Moda

Shauna

Got my fabric!

I have been inspired by all the "bright" TTS's and decided to go that way myself. So, now I am ready to go. Just a couple of things to finish off this week and then I'll get stuck in next week! Still haven't settled on my thread colour. I have red, green and blue just in case!

kris lifeatrosemaryhill.blogspot.com

Hello fellow Stitchers

Hello I am a newbie here at Stitch A Long and have been busy getting my fabrics organised and thread and waiting for my pattern book to arrive. So zealous have I been that I have stitched the first 3 blocks and started on the fourth and have nearly sewn the rest of the stitchery blocks with their borders.

Then I realised we are not supposed to be going at this fast pace. Silly me.

Well at least for once I can say I am organised!!!!!!!!!

I can have a little rest now until April.

I have chosen to use the similar colour way as in the original mainly because I have a fair bit of this colour fabric in my stash (which I should be using up) and I like this colourway anyway.

Although I have seen a lot of great colour combos on the blog and am eager to see them all finished later this year.


I am stitching on a linen and using DMC 115 which is a variegated thread which I am using because I already have a couple of skeins in my stash of threads and it compliments the rosy pinks and reds very nicely.



I have decided not to do the border stitching on the blocks as I had already cut all the stitching blocks to size (in my uber zealousness) before realising it is a very tight squeeze. I can probably still add the borders on some blocks but on others it isn't possible. I think they still look okay without it so I'm not overly worried by my little mistake.
I preferred to sew the border fabric onto the stitchery blocks before stitching so I would have
something to hang onto while stitching.

I'm really happy with how much I have achieved so far and if I get a little behind other months it will be okay. It is looking really nice.

Roll on April.

Bye for now from Liz luv 2 cre8te blog

I've found my fabrics.....

While I'm waiting on my Threads to arrive, I decided to go through my stash and find some fabrics.

I noticed Tracee was using Red & White fabrics which is what I was thinking about but wasn't sure what it would look like beside the white Stitchery Fabric.

Tracee's looks great so I've decided to use Red & White fabrics too.... Will add more to it as I need it.

Just waiting for my Country Threads to arrive and then I can start.

Loving everyone's fabrics and look forward to keeping in touch over the next 12 months.

Fiona @ Dragonfly-Crafts

Ok, I changed my mind (so soon!)

Hi everyone!

I've been drooling over your posts so I elected to do a little shopping.  Instead of going with the Moda Marble (as I mentioned earlier), I've decided to go this route:

I'm loving the stars, and I already tried a test run - it needled just fine.

Can't wait for Tuesday!

Elisa in snowy, Ferndale MI

Come on March

Hi girls, looking forward to stitch with you.

Again for some of you

and newcomers you can look forwards to a lovely journey among fellow stitchers.

My choice of fabrics will be this line from Inkwell Prints,

cream for the stitchery and DMC Stranded Floss #815.

Now I just need the pattern to arrive.

Pia

Hi to everybody! I'm Pepe from Italy, and I'm so excited to join you in the stitch-a-long project! Here are some colour-tests for Tis the season and some fabrics I think to use...

Pepe

Borders..........

'Chocolat' by 3 Sisters

Block A coming along

This messy basket contains all my fabric pieces.

All the stitcheries for block A are done, washed and ironed. Ready to be pieced with some fabric during the week-end.

Great work you're doing all around the world. And thanks for the inspration and for keeping me on track.

Pia

Ready to go

All stitcheries for block A are traced and ready to take out sewing tomorrow.
Being at home today I am using the time to cut fabrics.

I have a beautiful red Kona Bay fabric with white, pink and blue flowers I want to use for the outer border, then I am thinking something green for the inner border and for the rest I will find a little purple, red, pink, blue and a variety of greens from light to dark.

Wandering thru my stash to find something suitable I came across a box with 2½" squares, another box with 1½" strips and a huge pile of assorted green 6" squares - don't know what they were intended for - anyway they will be used to throw in some scraps.

Pia

Jo in TAS here

Hi Everyone,
I'm Jo from Lilly Pilly (previously known as Jo in Tas). After seeing Chooky's post about the Gardener's Journal I decided I had to take part in this to get some motivation to complete this quilt.

I've had these packed in a box just dying to get out and be used

and these are the stitcheries I've finished so far

and that's as far as I got before I got sidetracked by other things. So ladies I'm going to get back on track and finish this with you. It's another of Annie's designs that I love but I love lots that she does.

I'm looking forward to watching how everyone progresses!

Good Luck!!

Hi Everyone

I am Jodie from "Paradise" http://www.quiltparadise.blogspot.com/ I look forward to getting to know you all a little better.

To Chooky and Peg, thanks so much for letting me join in. For some reason I had a head rush and decided I wanted to join a quilt-along with stitchery? Who'd have thunk it?

Anyway I have almost finished the "Potting Shed" so that means I am working on Block A.

The photo above shows the 10 fabrics I chose originally, but they are FQs so I have duplicates of some, but will have to add in some others. Will sort that out when it comes time to assemble the block.

I hope I am there at GDITC 2011 to show off my progress, fingers crossed it is NOT Saturday March 12 because that will be the only reason I can't come. Can you believe there have been three now? Seems so long ago when I went to the inaugural one.

Starting to waffle so I will end this post.

Jodie