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, December 11, 2010

Still Stitching...

After spending a couple of months in stitchy wilderness A Gardener's Journal has emerged back into the light...
Only the stitcheries...there has been no block construction action going on...so that's Resting in the Garden, the Birdhouse and the Row of Flowers stitcheries for Block F...mmm apparently that block was going to happen in September...it didn't, oh well...the lawnmower for Block B which was slated for October...oops! missed that one too...and Ladybird for Block E, hey! that's December's block, that would be this month! wahoo!!...oh what's that?...September, October and November come Before December...bugger!...thinking I'll just keep on with the stitcheries and worry about the block construction once they are done...

And to provide me with even more reasons to get distracted this arrived in the mail yesterday...

All ready to go for the next Stitch-A-Long project...love it...

Suppose I'd better finish this one though so...Back to stitching Smelling the Roses...

Happy stitching...
Annette

8 comments:

Jindi's Cottage said...

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Grethe said...

Great Annette,you have a lot of stichings there,and soooooooon
lots of blocks to sew together:-)
Happy Quilting to you!
And yes,lovely new SAL to think about:)))))

By Hoki Quilts said...

Hey, in no time at al you will have the blocks done and then the quilt - not far ot go now, woo hoo.

Chookyblue...... said...

Keep stitching...........I loved stitching smelling the roses.......and cut all the bits for the blocks together and it will be over with then......you just have to piece them.........

Unknown said...

wow...............Beautiful

Joy McD said...

Oooh lovely... I bought "Tis the Season" yesterday, how do I join in on the stitch along? Bought the fabric too, so I am all ready to go :)
lv,
Joy

suzitee said...

Not to worry...the stitching takes the longest! Once you start piecing it, the quilt comes together quite quickly. Keep up the great work!

Miss Hillbilly said...

Just found you on the Abyquilt blog. I am new to stitchery but would love to join in!! I cannot find that Christmas book on Amazon. Any suggestions? Also, I am off to look up the book you are doing now.