Dear Mom

March 17, 2020.

I miss you Mom. RIP

Baby Penny

I had a number of friendship star blocks  and I am learning machine applique, I appliqued a Pig.

Why a pig .... 2019  Year of the Pig.

Then Penny was born at the beginning of December and I hurried and got this to her at the beginning of January.

Penny is child # four, she is cousin to my Grands.  I look forward to meeting her...probably when winter is over .

I neglected to take pictures, these were taken by an Uncle.
Her name and birth date are stitched on the quilt.

Happy Quilting!

ALB # 2

We have two Grand Daughters they both have the same initials. I don't think it was noticed nor does it matter.

 Here is the latest addition to our family. She arrived on the last day of Febrary, two days after her Great Grand Father Fred passed away. A wonderful ray of sunshine with perfect timing for a sad family.

Welcome to the world ALB

 We love you bunches.

This is ALB 2 's cousin taking a selfie on GG's phone.

And the other ALB  who leads the pack

GG loves this bunch a whole bunch.

Happy Days,
Gudrun

Garden Weave

I started Garden Weave April 2018.  It started with all fabrics from one favourite shop and  was augmented with a few bits from my 'stash'.  It measures 90 x 110 inches and has a wool batt. It is warm. I had a couple of lovely sleeps under it and am keeping it.😊 I use wool batts when ever I can.

The motives in the plain squares were started with a tool I own called Circle Lord.  I recently had the wheels on the long arm replaced with a ballbearing arrangement called Bliss.  The Bliss system is great but now the Circle Lord aint what it used to be. 

This quilt is large and used most of the frame, and because I can not get around both sides of the machine (one end against the wall) I could not engage the Circle Lord on the wall end, I would have had to turn the quilt.  This scenerio annoyed me so much I pulled back from sewing Motives using Circle Lord and went freehand on a few. It all works in the end. 

So now I need to re-think how I am going to accomplish spirals etc. in the future. 

Some garden pictures,  just because.

Happy Friday,

Gudrun

The Eldest is Ready

It's finished.   My eldest Un Finished Object (UFO)

It was started one sunny day in January 2009.

It took a decade.

Why did it take this long?  I attempted this 3D 

New York Beauty, when I was in the kindergarten area in the art of piecing. This was then, beyond my abilities.  Abilities have been acquired and skills honed.

 I made use of the cut pieces and all the fabric that was kitted with this project. Repaired a number of blocks and called it done.

 I could made it bigger. However, I couldn't do it then,  though I can do it now, I have no interest in ever doing a 3 dimensional point on anything larger then a small wall piece.

Also  the instructor for this method  was a dear friend who died in 2014, and for a while I tried to work on it but would end up spending the time remembering Jo, not working on the blocks. Not a bad thing to do. :))

I did a lot of quilting on it. Used the last bits of fabric for binding, sewed my name & date on it,  call it a finish.
 Oh my...Ugh sure need to get at finishing this deck floor.
Happy Wednesday.... hope your doing something you like,
Gudrun
ps. another empty project box