Passion for purple and a finish

I was determined this week to finish up quilting on

the High Flyer quilt for grand-daughter, a continuing infection

slowed me up but I did it!

I couldn't get a full shot as I was without any helpers

yesterday to hold, but I'll try and get one during the week.

More on my purple houses from
Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2016,
if you check on my last post the second of my
two houses wasn't making me very happy, it's now relegated to
my bits and pieces box and a new one in my usual
favourite KF Collective fabrics is here

now I'm happy!!

A new book arrived yesterday so I'm doubly happy, I've only had a look
at a few pages but boy it explodes with colour
and great ideas

and I'm saving it for later today when I can sit totally uninterrupted
and enjoy!

No flower pics today, wet and dull here presently and the colours
are fading fast in the garden.

If you have a longing for more purple go along to visit Angela at
soscrappy
and get your colour fix!

Have a Happy Week
Maureen

2016 Finish-A-Long

The start of another year!

I apologise first off to those who  have seen 

most of the photos on my list of finish projects for the quarter.

Only one is in need of extra piecing work the remainder all
need quilting.

My list for the 1st Quarter:

High Flyer
Quilt for Daisy
Desert Rose
Blue Heaven
Scrap Rainbow
Alley Cats
Ice Cream

High Flyer

This needs quilting and quickly!!! This is for our youngest grand-daughter

who has a birthday on the 18th of this month, I need more hours in

my day. You can read the story about High Flyer HERE.

Quilt for Daisy
The story about this quilt is HERE

Desert Rose

 Desert Rose needs two more borders, she was part of the Midnight at the Oasis
Quilt-A-Long

Blue Heaven

Scrap Rainbow

Alley Cats

Ice Cream

Guess I'd better get on that machine!!

I'm off now to link up with
Leeanne at She Can Quilt
for the first quarter. 

A wet and windy start to 2016

Wishing you all a Happy New Year

January 1st 2016

and we had pretty wet and windy weather!

Good time to sit quilting or thinking about quilting - sadly I didn't do much

at all of the former but a lot of the latter.

Projects for the year are being organised and naturally I have too many

on my list but I am certainly taking part in
Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2016
one of my projects here will match up nicely with another
group
Quilty 365
you will see if you go and visit that this is all about circles, preferably
one each day although I don't think I shall be making quite so many.

My proposed list of projects will hopefully be be in a post mid-week and at the same time
 I need to baste and begin quilting High Flyer below,

this is the one for my youngest grand-daughter and you can read the story behind
the quilt HERE.
I was tossing up whether to order new fabric for the backing, one of the two used in the
triangles but given that I have oodles of fabric I am
trying to cobble together a pieced back which selfishly means that I can
justify my order for a bundle of Loominous by Anna Maria Horner!

There will probably be just enough fabric in the photo
below for the backing - although this is not set in stone

until I have worked up a plan of cuts and placements.

Back to my brainstorming for the coming year with my
quilting  and finding time to tidy the garden after the atrocious weather!

Happy Quilting
Maureen

Making Progress ...

Slowly but surely the quilt for my grand-daughter

is moving along, faster progress would be

made if my back didn't limit the time I can sit and sew!

These rows are just pinned onto the design wall presently

tomorrow I should be able to get them together.

I'm quilting this myself but doing it in two halves, I don't

feel like wrangling another large quilt through the machine.

Progress has been made with my Rail Fence as part of

the Quilt Along over at
Cultural Fusions Quilt Blog,

in addition to my blog here I also post there, quite a group
of us are now contributing.

So one more to add to the quilting line!
A second Rail Fence will be cut out, all being well, next week.
The blocks are a good size - 16 inches and quite addictive!

Something exciting is on the cards with
Kaja of Sew Slowly
and
Ann of Fret Not Yourself
coming up with the great idea of an improv online group

Ad Hoc Improv Quilters

go along to either blog, or both,  to see what it's all about, I have
a button also on my side bar.

That's all for now, hoping to have something to post
for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge this weekend, see you then.

Maureen

Note to self - remember to check measurements!!

Bit on the late side with this post - stupid mistake made

with the blocks for High Flyer - story below!

For RSC 2015 I have only three Scrappy Mountains to show

High Flyer

Halfway through cutting I obviously changed size by a half inch on the large

squares for the block - I also changed from putting the corners

on using small squares method in order to save fabric and

went to cutting triangles with my Accuquilt - bad move! I didn't pick this up until 

coming to sew rows together - outcome is 5 rows no good, so

I decided to cut more fabrics in the original correct size.

What to do with the odd rows?? Cut them up!!

So here we are with two set of strips, large triangles, large chunks for 15 minutes play

and small pieces for Scrap Vortex! I haven't even pulled out threads or

ironed before photographing.
The remaining large squares are the correct size, I just need to cut more of the blue
and purple for the small squares.
The pieces pictured above will be put in my parts box for a rainy day.

That's all from me but I'm heading off to see the weekend
posts to Angela at RSC 205

Have a good week!

Colour My World

The colour for the RSC 2015 this month is light blue or even

a blue/green but I have been pretty slow to get going on teapots

and scrappy mountains!!!

However I've been busy working on other projects, I posted a shot of

fabrics for a quilt for my grand-daughter and good progress is

being made, blocks put together

here's a peek.

"High Flyer" is the name of this quilt - Alice, our grand-daughter, is 10yrs old and in a cheerleading

team, I think she's now in an elite squad. She is a natural and very, very good. When I was

young cheerleaders were girls at the rugby matches dancing and

usually waving coloured pom poms but now it's a whole different scene!

The gymnastics, the leaps and somersaults are amazing.

 Alice is a flyer in the squad and so we have the name of the

quilt, given that I have flying geese in there into the bargain it seemed a good choice.

I have hunted out my Fruit Salad blocks and have those up on the design wall, 

still need a few more and I'm determined that these

will be done by the end of the month and then I should be onto the borders.

The Pear Aboriginal Dot is still not showing well, it's a beautiful colour.

This is one of my pieces as contributor to 

15 Minutes Play.

And for "stress relief" I have begun my colouring book

I love dragonflies so this is my first choice and as a break from the machine for

a short time it truly is relaxing.

Of course now our four legged friends are asking for their

evening meal so that's my time at the machine and computer over

for the evening!

I'll be back Sunday or Monday with something to show for RSC 2015.