Hip, hip, hip….

My top has come back from the quilter !

I've basted it… so…

It's finished !!

Some details of the quilting...

I like how it looks like...

I'm so happy to have done all this journey with all of you !

Thank you so much Chooky and Susan to have been such kind guardians of our needle work, even if sometimes  you have to use a whip ;) !

and thank you to all the members of the SAL to have been so inspiring !

Maybe we will meet on another project one day ...

My top is off to be basted.

So after deciding on that extra border making it a queen-sized quilt, I realised that basting is the only thing I really hate about quilting.... I just detest it, and such a large quilt was so daunting.

After seeing a machine basted Lucy Boston at my sewing group last week... I didn't even know this was a thing. I've just dropped my baby off at the quilters.....to be basted.

So I am another step closer....

Almost there...still!

To be quite honest, I've been "almost there" for a few months now.....ooops! 

I've pondered and pondered over how I was going to quilt this top, but finally decided to just go with the flow, and let it happen. I've pinned it (with a little bit of help from my puppies) and quilt a little each afternoon after work.

So far it's going quite well, and I hope to be binding by the weekend.

Congratulations to all of you who have beautiful quilts to show...even though I don't comment much, I love looking at all your gorgeous work.

TTFN
Susan (aka suzitee)

Nearly There!

Just a quick update... my quilt is now back from the quilters..... (sorry about the sun in the top corner)......

A couple of close ups of the quilting.... done by a lady called Jenny in our embroidery group......

And... after a trip to my local patchwork shop some binding was purchased.... I would have gone for a brown of some kind if it wasn't for the helpful assistant who suggested we look around for some other options.... love the one she came up with (an Anni Downs fabric - from her "Under the Mistletoe" range) ..... 

seen here along the bottom of the photo. 

So.... just have to cut up the binding, sew it on and do my label!....I'm getting there not long to go now!

Happy Stitching

Asta

April?

Early or way late??????

better go with way late but I can give myself another letter............woohoo.......

Anyone else working on the SAL at the moment...........

great to see some more tops and quilts recently..............

Chookyblue

HeLp........

The deadline is Girls Day in the County 19th March....

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An insane Chookyblue......

Top returned home :)

I’d finished the top some months ago but I hadn’t known what to do with it. I had not wanted to ruin the top with my dilettantish (I didn’t know this word exists in English! That’s pretty cool.) free motion quilting. When I went to the „Patchworktage“ fair in Dinkelsbühl, Germany last year (that's the annual(?) meeting of the German patchwork guild), I visited Nana’s stand. I was very impressed by her skills and sent her my top. Look what she did with it! Isn’t it gorgeous? I really love it. All I have to do is to tie off the yarn and do the binding.

And I have a top

So happy I've had a few issues, with Somw squares less meaning. 1/4 inch peeper being added, then the next squares I had frustration and cut one in half - but what surprised me is the brick border fitted perfect.

 After laying it stop my bed I decided I needed a bit of overhang and added another border of my grey spot. So guess tomorrow means shopping for backing fabric

And the quilting can begin.

But I've been happily distracted lots by Lucy thanks to Chooky