The Gift of Giving..........

The gift of giving is so amazing..................it is such a good feeling..............seeing, hearing, reading those precious responses........when you give someone a gift...........it is even more precious when you can make your gifts............thinking about the person receiving the gift as you go along..................
This is a special gift.................this quilt is a group project for one of the SAL members................earlier in the year I got an idea emailed some girls and was blown away by the response..............so promptly people got stitching and the blocks were stitched for Deb and Andrea..........both having terrible times in there lives and both girls had been part of the smaller GJ SAL group........(poor Deb has had earth quakes again today)..
Miche'le got to work on Deb's  (here) quilt but it took a little while for Andrea's to happen............lets say life interrupted............finally it got to the machine as was pulled together............popped into the mail and landed on the sleigh today................just in time for Christmas.......

and here are all the blocks with the girls links.......sorry some are a little scrunched...........

Yvette..........

Sonia

Diann..........

Annette............

Helen.........

Suzitee.........

Dawnie...........

Lisa...........

Sammie 

Lorraine.............
Continue to spread the Christmas cheer and love around the globe.....
.....life is too short and precious.............
Enjoy your quilt Andrea..............

Keep Stitching............

Chookyblue...........

Slow going

Its slow going here but slow is better than no going I guess. Its great seeing all the blocks coming along.



Keep up the good work girls.

Helen

Only a little bit late.

I'm only a little bit late but I guess its best to be late than not at all, the end is not too far away and it really has gone so quickly..... its great to see so many lovely blocks and in such different colour ways.... keep up the good work girls.

Helen

Just in time.....

I've been a bit naughty really as I did the stitcheries a few weeks ago but only put the borders on today, I shouldn't it to the last minute but other projects got in the way. Its terrific to see all the blocks coming together and so quickly too..... great work girls. 

April blocks done and dusted.

Here are my April blocks, now to get ready for next months. Everyones blocks are coming along very nicely and its great to see all the different colourways. Its also terrific to see more progress from the girls getting the GJ done, keep up the good work, you will get there.

On target

Here are my 3 blocks for this month, its not going to be hard to keep these stitcheries up to date I think.... I hope anyway. Its great to see everyones blocks coming together too.

Top together......

Well here is my quilt top with borders can't wait to get this finsihed now, I'm off to buy the wadding and backing tomorrow, hopefully I will be able to layer and pin soon..... then quilt but like you girls I'm not sure what I want to do yet.... ahhhh well I'll have to put on the thinking cap, I'm not really a quilter so it will probably be something simple. 

Come on Chooky show us some progress...... lol......

Helen

Had to share

I just had to share my excitement..... I joined all the blocks together today .... bit of a rough photo but my hubbie isn't a very good quilt holder, I have the wide border fabric but not the narrow border fabric so that will be my next job.

I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND SAFE NEW YEAR.

Thanks for all the encouragement with this quilt and I can't wait for the next one to begin.

Thanks to Chooky for this great quilt journey.

Helen

A bit late......

Here is my block B .... late again, still have to put the hearts on but will do that later. I'm off on a 14 day cruise to NZ next saturday so I have drawn the last 2 blocks just in case I get a bit of stitching time.... have stitching will travel ..... so I will pop back to see everyones progress in December.

Happy stitching everyone. 

Helen

Another block bites the dust.

Don't worry Grethe I'm doing a bit of a show off too, its nice to see the blocks together and it helps with motivation as does this group, it will be sad when we are finished though maybe we should do another project then. lol    My piccie isn't very good but you get the idea.

Another block finished !!!!!

Block H

Hello all .... well I have another block finished .... woohooooo...... this is so good to be on target and with all this motivation from Chooky and all of the GJ girls its been easy to do..... so keep up the good work girls, its lovely to see so many blocks done.

Helen

A stitch-a-long Day Out.

Helen, Teresa, Tereasa, Kayly and Lynda.

On Tuesday Kayly and I decided to go on an adventure and visit some other stitch-a-long members . I knew that Teresa and Helen visited Tereasa's shop on Tuesdays so we decided that that was the perfect time to visit. Kayly, Tereasa and I were even stitching our Gardener's Journal. As Helen and Teresa didn't know we were going to be there, we will forgive them for not bringing thier Gardener's Journal stitcheries this time but maybe we will visit again later and post some more progress photos.
We thought that you might all like to see us hard at work stitching.

While we were there we were able to see Teresa's beautiful Girl's Day Out Quilt - do go and check out the photos on her blog.

Is there anybody else out there getting together? Post a photo if you do!

Only just a little bit late !!!!

I agree with you Kris.... where did June go.... I too had the first 2 blocks done on time but not this one, I will have to pull my socks up for this month so enough of this chatter I'm off to the sewing room to draw up the next block.

Keep up the good work girls we will be finished before you can say ..... stitch-a-long......

Helen

Woohoo block A finish

Its so nice to be up to date with these blocks.

I'm also very happy with the way my fabrics are coming together.... which is always a worry.

Its fabulous to see so many finishes on this quilt and so many great colours and fabrics.
Keep up the good work girls.

Helen

One down !!!!

First block finish for me and I'm very happy with my fabric choice but like everyone else choosing fabrics seems to be the hardest part of quilt making, nice to have a good start though.

Having cut a lot of the fabric pieces for this quilt I thought they might get a bit lost so the zip lock bags came in very handy, still have a bit more to cut yet though.

Ready to go

First 2 stitcheries ready and I purchased my fabric today so no excuses for me now. Its great to see everyones enthusiasm and I'm sure they will all look terrific with so many different colourways.

Helen

Giving it a go and hope ....

Well I have decided to get started on this project ...tennis elbow or not, doctor said not to do anything and after 10 days I just can't stand the boredom so today I bought a brace for my arm, pain killers at the ready and will rest when it gets too much so I traced the first stitcheries and can't wait to get going, fingers crossed all will be well.

Helen