WIP Wednesday

For the first time ever I'm linking to Lee of Freshly Pieced

These are soooooo not my preferred colours, I love bright tropical saturated colours, and it doesn't go with my decor.

BUT

I love everything about this piece, the colours, the fussy cut hexies, the striped background, the borders.
I originally saw some hexies in Rural Jardin on the net, but for the life of me I can't find it now to give them credit, which gave me the inspiration for this.

I'm debating whether to leave it as a cushion sized piece or to make it bigger and use this as the central medallion for a larger quilt.




I've also been plodding along on these.

Four more almost finished, that will make it 11 finished blocks, 21 28  (hmm my math is not so good is it) to go, these are going to take me a little longer than I thought.


It doesn't help when I start playing with something else.

Not quite sure whether this is going to turn out like the picture in my head. Time and more playing will tell.

Pyjama Party Sunday

It's a long weekend here, so I have three days of being able to stay in my pj's. I think if I do that though you may have to call someone as I'll be turning into one of those hoarding cat ladies that never go out of their house.
I did actually shower and get dressed and went out unto the wide world yesterday. Not for very long as it was cold and wet and yucky (technical weather term).

Friday night and yesterday I cut the pieces for my Floral Bouquet quilt. I did a sample block ages ago, and decided to start on the rest of the blocks.



I should have been doing one of these:

1. The pinwheel quilt - I need to finish the applique, embroider the stems, and sew it together.
2. The French Roses quilt.
3. The raw edge applique that I made a month ago needs to be quilted.
4. Spice Boxes- I need to finish the quilting.
There are more UFO's WIP's that I should be working on too.

All week those projects have been sitting there taunting me.  It's driving me crazy that I have all these things still sitting there without a finish, but I couldn't find even an ounce of motivation to pick up and work on any of them. That's why I started the Floral Bouquet blocks, now I have another WIP.

After spending a couple of a few hours today sewing the blocks and then cutting more of the 40 white jelly roll strips into tiny pieces, yuck, I had had enough and wandered around looking for something else to do.

I travelled from the 21st century back to the 19th century and found this


I had added an extra round of hexies a couple of weeks ago,

and turned it into this

Sorry the lighting is terrible on this photo. I only took it a few minutes ago.
It should look like the one above. Oh and I just noticed it's upside down too.  I was going to make it into a pillow, but as usual I think I'm going to change my mind and make it into a wall hanging. The rest of my evening will be spent hand sewing the hexies to the background.

As it's Sunday, it's time to join in Pyjama Party Sunday. Whether you're in your pj's or not, join in the fun and link up to share in the love of lazy pj weekends.
I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend, especially everyone in Australia, with Queen's Birthday holiday tomorrow.  Yay for a long weekend.

Favourite Things Friday

This week my favourite thing is that I sorted out my fabric stash.

I bought some lots of Samla tubs from my favourite shop Ikea and used them to contain my ever growing stash of fabric that was threatening to take over every horizontal surface in the house.

           

These contain mostly half yards and fat quarters.
It took a few hours to contain it all, well most of it.  I have squeezed all my solids into the cupboard that most of these were in and I have a shelf in the study where I keep yardage (anything over a metre) and I also have a big plastic bin where I store my scraps.
I now know I have lots and lots of pink and yellow/greens, not very much purple and hardly any blue.

The cupboard isn't exactly tidy, but at least all my bits and pieces fit in here, solids, a couple of boxes of threads, and one of ribbons and notions, some doilies and boxes of fabric that I'm using in WIP's. I now have a nice clear side board in the dining area, and a spare bed that I can see.

Now I just have to find somewhere to store my ever growing piles of WIP's and UFO's.

As usual I'm linking up with Shay at  Quilting In My Pyjamas  who is hosting FTF. Check out all the other favourites this week.

Lucy

Jenni from Baa-me Kniits has a very cute friend Lucy, who is visiting lots of people in Blogland. First stop was Brisbane to see Kate at dash robin, where she had a lovely time.
Lucy has been staying with me for a couple of weeks now, a little longer than I was intending, as I made a quick trip away and Lucy came with me.

While she was here on the Sunshine Coast she did lots of interesting things.

 Look at the lovely scarf Kate made for Lucy.

We went for a drive to look at the local scenery.

Lucy had a horse and carriage ride at my sister's house.

She phoned home to Jenni.

Lounged by the pool, before going to Melbourne. It wasn't warm enough to go in for a dip.

 We travelled on a tram to the Good Food and Wine Show.

Said hello and had a photo taken.

Sampled some champagne, it was there, we had to!

Went to the Lindt shop and had hot chocolate and macarons.

Now Lucy is going to visit another blogging friend. I've given her something to make sure she has a snack for the journey.

Pyjama Party Sunday

Mrs P at Quilting In My Pyjamas is hosting PJ PS this week, so hop on over to link your post and see what she has been up to this weekend.

Strawberries and Champagne

It's finally finished, washed and dried, nice and soft and crinkly.

The front

The back

A close up of the quilting, pebbling in the circles, a diamond shape between the circles and a very rudimentary free motion quilted flower in the centre. 

 A lovely summery quilt for the first day of winter!

Red Monochromatic Block

It's time for the reveal of the block for the month of May, gosh, it's June where has the first half of the year gone?

I love red, I love wearing red shoes, I have a fabulous red handbag that I use a lot, I have red lipstick ( which I love but don't wear often), I have red scarves, red cushions on my bed, but funnily enough not much red in my fabric stash.  When I found out May was going to be red, I thought it would be really easy to find 8 co-ordinating red fabrics. Unfortunately I found a couple of solids, a batik and a couple of left overs from my Strawberries and Champagne quilt but that was it. Luckily for me, Melissa of Clothwork came to my rescue and sent me some pieces of gorgeous red fabrics to help me out.

My daughter also helped me by suggesting I stitch cherries in this bock. I'm really happy with how this turned out.  I'm so pleased I joined this challenge and decided to just do one block each month, it's been easy to continue, I'm really enjoying the process and it's pretty much stress free, as long as I don't leave it to the last minute as I have been known to do. 

I'm definitely going to work on finding some more red fabrics to add to my stash.