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, December 31, 2017

December - Susan Oh 2 Sew

Oops - almost the end of December and I haven't posted my December block - those two Quilt Police will be after me!!!   LOL

As I have mentioned before, this quilt will be for my eldest daughter and she had requested a few...well quite a few...design changes.   So the ginger bread man became a tree... I will add a star later.


 

I didn't stick to the "plan" when making this, so already had the bottom section of hearts and stars joined to the end pieces.  
In fact I haven't stuck to the plan at all as I have the house block started as well.
Since we were going to visit eldest daughter & husband (who live in Townsville) for Christmas this year - and it is the first time she has been away from Brisbane for Christmas, I joined the blocks I did have and took it with me so that she could enjoy it.

There is a lot to go and I need to unpick those seams - I did use a long stitch - but I'm happy with how it's coming along.
Certainly a commitment to have it finished well before Christmas 2018.

5 comments:

Susan said...

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Raewyn said...

I bet your daughter was thrilled Susan - lovely that you joined it up for her to have a pre-view :-)

Anonymous said...

Isn't that where Jenny Reynolds lives, too? What a beautiful Christmas quilt it is turning out to be. She's lucky she has such a talented mother! I know she enjoyed seeing it - and it's really mostly done! She'll have it for next year, definitely!

Fiona said...

Haha... quilt police?????? Its lovely and great to make it to suit your daughter....

Hugz

Narelle said...

Llooks amazing...well done 😊