On Wednesday

Wednesday and it's a wet one - again!

Frog Frenzy came back from the quilter - thanks Leeanne -

and is now bound and labelled. 

Photographed between the rain showers and with the wind blowing I

just couldn't get a full photo.

For the backing I used the last strip of Frog fabric down the centre, found the

yellow with stars in my stash and had to add other left over

pieces to bring it up to size for long arm quilting.

Bound using the excess inches trimmed after the quilting, see below.

Some of you may have seen this photo below on Instagram,

as I was trying to finish the binding I was joined by my

furry companion - the quality controller!

Due to wearing hand splints over the past ten days quilting has 

taken a back seat but in addition to finishing

Frog Frenzy ready to gift to Sam I was able to

sew the borders on the quilt from my last post.

Once again trying to dodge the wind and rain it had

to be photographed outside on the old deck.

The AMH fabric borders are 8" wide, this is a stunning print but

not possible to have two side borders exactly the same due to the size of the repeat

and the flowers all going in the same direction, not a good

look to have one border with flowers up and the other with

them down - I tried it!!

However, the top and bottom borders were easy to change

direction as they were running side to side.

A closer look at the borders below.

Splints are only needed for a few hours each day now

so back to the machine.

I'm linking up with
Julie hosting Sew,Stitch,Snap,SHARE
there's sure to be lots to see!
Hope you'll go visit.

Maureen

A quilt for Sam

As if I didn't have enough projects to keep me busy

I realised that our youngest grandson will reach the

tender age of 5yrs at the end of April.

I made his older brother his 'grown-up' quilt for his 5th, so it was choosing fabric time.

Sam has very definite ideas on what he likes and doesn't like.

Pulling out my basket with colourful children's fabrics  he picked the one

I was secretly saving for myself!

His brother had picked a piece of fabric with lots of

colourful safari animals for his

quilt,  Sam said he would really like one just like Jacob's but

faced with the reality that I wasn't going to try and copy the other one

he accepted graciously!!

The particular plain colours he would like were red and black!!!

I bit of cajoling needed here I thought.

I found some Tula Pink ladybird fabric and persuaded him to

go with this and a selection of solids. Jacob helpfully

said that frogs would eat ladybirds, Sam was sold on the idea.

I thought we'd avoided black but no - so thinking quickly I pulled out a length of

black fabric with multi coloured dragonflies, told him they hover around ponds, 

frogs live there and they eat dragonflies. Yes, he thought that was good.

I now have to put these together, I'll add strips of the frog

fabric and  going with the idea of Chinese Coin strips

between the four feature panels. Keeping it simple.

I found an older piece of limey green fabric with brightly coloured

spiders so a few strips of that would work.

Last week a new book arrived in the mail box, I'd ordered this

two weeks ago after seeing it, I think, on Instagram.

Wonderful, wonderful book which is split into six sections, stay with me and I'll

just list them.

Impact of Quilts and Quiltmaking  on Health and

Health Care Outcomes.

The Art of Health Related Quiltmaking.

Individual Experiences of Health and Wellbeing through

Quiltmaking.

Public and Collective Quiltmaking for Health and Wellbeing.

Quilts in Healing Environments and Clinical Care.

I bought my copy,  it's an expensive buy, but your library

may be able to locate one. I reckon this is worth every cent!!

Back to Sam's quilt and more reading later this evening.

Maureen