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........

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

An 'A' for me please!

Here it is..... all done and dusted......


I stitched the last stitch at 7pm GMT yesterday.... the 31st August!   OK... I know it's September today and I'm only just posting but it was a case of eat or post last night and I was famished.      You wouldn't want me to fade away to nothing now would you... some hope!

Thought I'd take a bit of a liberty here and show you another successful August NJ.....


this one is my pal Sallys.   That's her hiding behind it.    She doesn't have a blog so couldn't sign up for the SAL but she has been sewing along with me (and therefore you) since the beginning.  The outer border is actually a lovely rich brown..... don't know what on earth Windows 10 is doing to the colours in my photos but it's getting annoying!

I've got a secret.....   I read Sallys pattern (she got the full pattern from the get go) and I've cut out the 200 coloured squares for Month 8.  That makes me ahead of the game... for once.  Have another couple of weeks to wait before the next BOM arrives and I can start work..... tapping fingers on table here.

Hope all you girls are going great guns with your NJ's.   Lots of gorgeous variations on display here....  keep up the good work.

Hugs...
Josie   xxx


9 comments:

nimble thimble stitchery-do said...

very nice finish...now on to all those nine patches! Nice that you have shared Sally's, it looks very nice too!

Jeanette said...

Love your block Josie. xx

Susan said...

Well done both of you !!! I'm sure its more fun to be stitching with a friend.

Susie said...

fabulous! its beautiful.

Sonia said...

Well, done, it's good to feel ahead of the game, I cut all mine out too... LOL but have yet to get August complete...eek

Fiona said...

looks fabulous Josie... sneaky you getting ahead!!
Hugz

Janice said...

I love both of your versions. I cut all of my little coloured squares too. Just need to cut the light blue ones and get stitching. Here's hoping we can all make the end of September deadline.

FloS said...

Well done Josie ! on time !! your friend is doing a beautiful work too !
Florence

Simone Harding said...

Fantastic. Looks so good