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, February 27, 2011

A Start to TTS Fabric Choices...

As there are only two more sleeps time until 'Tis The Season time for me to get serious and get ready...a couple of days before Chookyblue announced 'Tis The Season as the next SAL project parcel guy dropped off a squishy parcel that included pieces of a fabric in red and green colourways...fabrics which were included in said squishy parcel "just because"  immediately called out to be included in this project...


Except for the book of course, I want to try to not purchase anything for this project, using fabrics and threads already in the stash (the red and green fabrics had arrived before the announcement so they count as stash)...I found two skeins of Needle Necessities 1301 in the thread boxes - I like the colour combination in this thread and it plays happily with the two fabrics...for the stitchery backgrounds a cream tone on tone with small stars...the little stars seem Christmassy without being too fussy...the other fabrics for the project will reveal themselves in good time...

Happy Stitching...
Annette...
who really must put the borders on GJ and stop procrastinating about it...


3 comments:

Jindi's Cottage said...

Hello!

Love Bears All Things said...

Sounds like a plan coming together...now, it doesn't really take all that long to finish the GJ...you could do that when you're not sitting and stitching on TTS...I thought I was all set to stitch down my binding then remembered I need a hanging sleeve and want to do that first so back to the machine I go to finish that...got the label ready to put on too....I really mean to be ready to do some stitching by Tuesday, the 1st.
Mama Bear

Chookyblue...... said...

yep those fabrics count as stash........great that it worked out to use for this project..........

Oh and YES stop procrastinating with those borders and get them done I am waiting to see the quilt top........

(Queen of Procrastination aka Chookyblue)