Why George Clooney is bad for quilting.

Here we have 48 half-square triangles neatly sewn to 48 squares and pressed into a nice crisp seam.

Unfortunately the squares were supposed to be sewn along the side of the turquoise fabric, not the pink -oops!  Moral of the story: don't watch George Clooney films while you're sewing, he's just too distracting.

My first Block Swap

I'm very excited to be taking part in my first block swap through the Missouri Star Quilter's Forum.  The instructions were very simple (a must for a first timer) - make 12 12" finished blocks in a summery floral fabric, keep 1 and post the other 11 over to America.  I think I can handle that.

After months of sitting in a corner hand quilting it felt good to get cutting again.  300 2" squares, 96 2"x3.5" rectangles, 48 2"x5" rectangles.  I feel ridiculously excited, too excited to sleep, so I started sewing.  My lovely neat piles became this:

Not so neat.  I can't leave them like that or it'll probably become a kitty nest over night so more work before I can sleep.

That's better, sleepy time now zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Wedding quilt finish

I made it!  The quilt got finished, the dress got finished and they both made it the 350 miles to the wedding without being lost, damaged or stolen.  I managed to take some pictures of it before I handed it over to the bride and groom.

By the way, I don't live in a castle and sleep in a four-poster bed every night.  That's just the hotel room but maybe some day ........  

Don't the bride and groom look happy.  You can see where I got my colour inspiration from - I was there when the bride bought the fabric for her dress.

 

Oh well, on to the next project, a block swap on the Missouri Star Quilt Forum.

Sneaky Peek no. 4

I've finally managed to get all the hand quilting done (well as much as is humanly possible).  There was no way I could get all of the motifs done so I've left the outside ring of blocks, the ones that aren't complete stars, to finish at a later date.  Maybe for their first anniversary or maybe their 10th!!!

On to the machine for the final bits of quilting around the diamonds and the borders.  4 days of sewing left and I still have a dress to finish too - AAAAARRGGGHH!!!

Big sister went to London and all I got was....

...this super cute pin cushion.

Isn't he gorgeous?  I think I'll call him squeaker.

Forget the quilt, what about the dress?!?

I've been concentrating so hard on finishing the wedding quilt that I'd completely forgotten that I have to make my dress to wear to the wedding.  I fell in love with these shoes and bought the last pair in the shop:

Impulse buy!  I then couldn't find anything to go with them at all so I found a pattern and bought some fabric.  That was 2 months ago and I've only just remembered that I have some pretty shoes and a hat but nothing to wear in between.  Not really appropriate for church.

It's like a great big fabric jigsaw puzzle.  Time to get sewing....