Scrappy house number 2

My second house, I intend to make only two houses each month

in the colour set by Angela.
This quilt is going to be named
"Home Sweet Home"

Remember my Scrappy Mountains for the project last year - the top is now complete

and it's hanging in the closet - with six other quilts - waiting to be quilted!

I've just realised we have one more Saturday link left, and I'm not sure

whether to make a couple more stars, I have a lot going on next week

with two new projects - Gypsy Wife see my sidebar - and working

on a Kaleidoscope with my long awaited Mostly Manor fabrics which arrived

yesterday!!!!

That's all this post, we are melting here in Auckland and other parts

of the North Island, not easy to be quilting at the moment.

Hope you all keep safe in the snow storms some of you are experiencing.

Linking up with
"the other blues"
and
Oh Scrap!
for more scrap fun.

Scrappy Mountain is now a finished top

I finished the last seam on Scrappy Mountains yesterday and photographed it

outside early in the morning

not the best shot but I couldn't get a full on photo

on my design wall - re-organisation in process in my

little studio!

Thanks to everyone for their comments on my computer/printer

in or out of the sewing room - much appreciated and I hope

I have replied to all individually.

The outcome is it's gotta go somewhere else - so I'm trying

a couple of spots for it around the house.

I'm behind this week with my second blue house and that needs to be 

ready for Sunday morning our time (NZ) and next week I

shall be choosing fabrics for Gypsy Wife - see button on sidebar -

and hoping that my Mostly Manor fabrics for my kaleidoscope will at last arrive!

Tracking shows me that it has taken five days to go from Austin TX

through to Chicago

 and I'm told now four days o from Chicago "my item is now on it"s way to the destination"  

boy do I hope so!

Quick garden shot and then I'm off to cut a house

this is part of my large patch of  liriope.

Back in a couple of days - happy quilting!

Maureen

Christmas countdown and RSC 2015

Been in a bit of a go slow mood the past week, I decided

to work on something simple and made a little more progress

on my Scrap Vortex blocks,  these three will be 18"x 12" blocks.

Scrappy Mountain Majesties, you will see I have changed the setting which

I was going with earlier, when all the blocks were placed

on the design wall in the zig-zag formation it looked just

too messy, at least I found it so, and decided on a change.

The blocks are all stitched together and this week I hope to

have the rows together

The last link of the year is the 28th December - this year has just flown by!

Time to link up with 

Angela and RSC 2015 quilters

everyone rushing to have finishes!

I'll leave you with a photo of one of my Hibiscus flowers

I may not get another post in before Christmas so I'll wish

you all a Happy Christmas, keep safe and well and see you soon!!

Maureen

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2015

This month it's time to put our RSC2015 projects together - hopefully!

I've started with my Scrappy Mountains, no particular order

as they're going up 'cos they'll be changed around when every block is on the wall.

 I can already see I'm not too happy

with the bright pink, third row down fourth block along, certainly not in the position

 it's in presently.

A few more blocks are needed, possibly yellow which I tried in that

particular colour month but they didn't do anything for me, I'll try again.

Violet, peach or aqua are possibles.

  I can already see I'm not too happy

with the bright pink, third row down fourth block along, certainly not in the position

 it's in presently.

One more flower photo before I go

Visit Angela and all taking part in RSC 2015

Back to more placing on the wall, happy quilting!

Maureen

Mountain catch-up and one extra teapot

I never made Scrappy Mountains in Pink for

Rainbow Scrap Challenge, can't remember why but no matter as

I have just finished sewing up six of them, some may not make

it into the finished quilt at the end of the year but that's OK.

This month we have bright green so they're on my "next to do" list

hopefully tomorrow.

Philip Jacobs new fabrics had this luscious new colour way

in his Brocade Paeony design just begging to have a teapot made

out of it

this is for me!!!

Catch you over the weekend.

Maureen

An early start to Sunday

We were sitting in front of the television at 4.30am today!!

The final of the Rugby World Cup and our All Blacks (New Zealand) were 

playing the Wallabies (Australia) and hooray the All Blacks won the day!!

Back to back wins and the only team to have won

the Cup three times - what a great game. However, I am now paying the price

for the early start to the day, all I have achieved

on the quilting front is to pull fabrics - 

deep pinks for my Scrappy Mountain Majesties (catch-up)

and lime greens for the colour of the month with
Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2015
my iPad camera doesn't seem to be picking up the rich colour of
these limes even though I had them in various light sources
and
two more blocks for Scrap Vortex, once again there seems
to be an issue with colour you can see how dull these blocks
look, they actually are much brighter

a bit of work on finding the best light sourceset up needed I think.

This photo of the first rose to flower in the long side border is
the true colour

Hopefully I shall be more productive over the next few days!

Maureen

Catching up

It's been a busy week with grandchildren, working on my Rail Fence quilt for the Quiltalong at
Cultural Fusion Quilts
 and working out which fabrics in my stash I'm going to hang on to and which

can find a new home, I desperately need to cull!

I have been able to get 6 Scrappy Mountain blocks together

in black!

Notice the pukekos - they are contrary little creatures and
do things a little differently to what we would expect!

Hopefully I can get out in the garden for a little while late afternoon,

it's a beautiful Spring day  even though Spring doesn't officially

hit us until September 1st. Daffodils are blooming, bluebells budding up, camellias

full of flowers  and yesterday we bought super size punnets of viola and stock from the

garden  centre nearby, the stock plants are just in flower and the scent is heavenly, I've

planted them by the path to the front entrance.

I love this time of the year!

If you would like to see more black or neutral projects go along to

soscrappy and RSC 2015

for the link-up.

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2015 - Mid Year Update

Here we are - the middle of the year already and time to post

our progress with projects.

I changed my project at the third month mark and went on to Teapots, Scrappy Mountains

and Stars - the Stars have not progressed much at all so

there will be no photo of those today, but my teapots

are coming along nicely, they still need to be machine appliquéd.

Now we have four more months to go which is

going to leave me with an odd number for a quilt, and I'm thinking

wall quilt with this one, so options are to use two more teapots and make

it a nine block

 and make a small piece with the remaining two teapots at the end of the year.

I can play around with the placement when all 11 are finished. They will

have sashing added and border or borders.

Scrappy Mountains - haven't yet caught up with yellow or pink and

because these others below are dark I feel I would want

to go dark pink and maybe yellow/orange, not decided yet.

There are two settings which appeal to me, the first photo

does not have all the blocks, I just didn't have enough time or energy

to keep taking them down and re-arranging into any

number of settings, so

above is the first setting

below is the second - and note that I have to make another

two turquoise blocks and change out a couple of reds, in the setting below I'm not happy with KF "Dream" in red - too many other colours coming in and it just doesn't gel

for me, also there's a background fabric not working, so I'll get to those

next week

my design wall won't take the width so the first and last block either curve onto the

other wall or hang off the edge!!

You can see the sixth block and ninth block in red - they've got to go and I'm not too happy

with the 8th and 11th background I think that's going also. When all eleven months
are up I will be able to play around with colour rows.

I would appreciate your views on the two fabrics I've mentioned if you feel inclined
to give me a comment.

Well, that's it from me and I will make an effort to finish the Stars but I have

quite a few other projects on the go as well as these!

Time to link with other posts on progress
with Angela at Superscrappy

Happy Quilting

More Mountains and catch up teapots ..

Last week was pretty quiet on the quilting side of things, a visit to the doctor

confirmed I had extremely high blood pressure, ? kidney involvement.

A visit to the laboratory for tests and a visit to the chemist

for a another treat to add to my medication regime!!

However,

I have been able to catch up with yellow and pink teapots,
these two are joining the purple one to be machine appliqued.

My fingers and toes are crossed that I have enough variation in the spot fabric

to carry on through the next few months. I may have to force myself to

order more yardage in other colours - pity!!

Mountains in green this week and  an update from Angela that we should be aiming

for dark green so here goes

My H blocks for our grandson are up on the wall but I need another 14 so
that's a job for tomorrow. Both the H blocks and the Mountains are so quick
to cut and sew, really enjoying these.

We had an afternoon tea/family party today for the 2nd birthday of our
youngest grandson, a great time had by all especially when
the luscious chocolate birthday cake was placed on the table,
you should have seen the eyes of the two boys, they couldn't wait
to try some. Pity I didn't take a quick photo to post.

Linking up now with all the greenies at
superscrappy for RSC 2015

See you in the middle of the week, hope you have a good one.

Maureen

Purple pots and blue mountains

I needed something new to show for the last purple Saturday

and when I first saw the teapot pattern in

Kaffe Quilts in Morocco I knew that these were on my future agenda.

In a crazy moment two days ago I decided what a good idea it would be to

make rainbow teapots but they would be fused and machine appliqued. 

Here she is waiting to go under the machine and

you will see that there is no knob on the lid of this one, I just

had to fussy cut into Thousand Flowers instead, in fact I may use this idea
for all of the teapots!

My other project this week was to play catch-up with the

Mountain Majesties and 6 blue ones are done

to add to the purples.

The centre seams are not sewn as yet because no decision has been made on

the setting. Once again these are slightly darker than they actually are, sorry!

Hope you're all enjoying the weekend and I'm off now to see what

everyone else has made this week in purple over at

the last purple Rainbow Scrap Saturday

head on over!

That time of the week…...

Yes, Saturday (Sunday here) and time for a post about Purples.

I'm posting  the Mountain Majesty blocks again from last weeks' post, the

colours looked very muddied, this taken on a good day is clearer

but taken on a funny angle!

With this Saturday and two more to go in April I wondered what on earth

I was going to make with purple, I didn't need more purple Mountains but

I love Ohio Stars so I'm making a second quilt.

The one above looked better on point

but it seems I didn't take a photo of that setting

however I think I will go with on point. Six each month set diagonally should make a

good quilt, the blocks are 6" finished.

I'm using up some of my older tiny prints for the background where possible, I have heaps 

going back years and years. My Kaffe scraps just have to be in there

and confession time …… I have just had a delivery of the

new range so I may just have to have some of those in these two quilts.

Don't forget to visit everyone at
the Rainbow Scrap Challenge
I need to play catch-up over the next few weeks to make more of the two
different blocks in Blue, Pink and Yellow!!

The week seems to have flown by and I feel as if I'm back on a roll with my

quilting! The blue hexagon quilt should be all put together in a few days and

not many more H blocks to sew.

As it's a purple month have a look at the tiny cyclamen patch

below - they are actually more pink I know - and

 about three inches high at most. This is just a small patch there are more,
each year after flowering I wait for the seed capsules to mature then

sprinkle under the hydrangeas, they seem to love it there.

We have family coming for dinner tonight so it's time for me to head to the kitchen,
Summer Quiche tonight made with shortcrust pastry, sour cream, shallots, tasty cheese, eggs, courgettes,
basil and of all things - lettuce! It is just delicious and every bit as tasty when cold
for lunch the next day.
Maureen