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, January 9, 2011

How to quilt it? Oh, and can I have a 'B' please?

Fiona@Dragonfly-Crafts said in her last post 'Now to work out how I will quilt it'.
I've been giving this a lot of thought also. I'm going to go around each of the embroideries -twice on the ones with borders- to 'lock down' the quilt and around both sides of the inner border. After this, I think I will get out of the ditch and try some simple shapes especially in the 1 inch block sections.
I'm a bit concerned about some of the larger embroideries. They are too big to leave unquilted but I don't want to do too much on them. (I can hide my dodgy quilting easier on the patterned fabric.)
Does anyone have any suggestions?
I finished appliqueing on my hearts this morning. I have not appliqued much but I was pleased how it turned out. I used the buttonhole stitch method. I'll save trying the needle turned method until there is not such a fast approaching deadline.

Thanks to Chooky for setting up this SAL and blog. I have really enjoyed this and look forward to seeing many of the quilts at GDITC.
Take care,
Kayly

1 comment:

Grethe said...

Lovely block,Kayly:-)
Certainly your whole quilt will be super and delicate looking,and I am
sure you proudly will be showing it on the GDITC!!
So now Happy Quilting it.