In one piece

Have you seen me on Instagram?

If so you would have seen that the house quilt is in one piece.

It's quite big so hard to get a good photo.

Maybe an uncropped one is better.

Look at that ironing board:

only just ironed the quilt.

 

I thought these colours might suit this post...

I went for a walk in the bush the other day in preparation for next BIG walk.

Who thought I would see an echidna just on the path!

And the bush is own kind of dramatic.

 

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Borders

Borders....isn't that the topic of the decade?

I have been working on mine.

They are pieced in 2 1/2" squares. A good way to use the small pieces.

 

I have shaded from dark to light and pieced them along with the blocks.

Nearly done.

 

 

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Unplanned

It was unplanned that my two ideas would collide like this.

I realise that it was in remaking this quilt that I had

Linda Brannock, Jan Patek and Gerry Kimmel on my mind.

 

I am making progress on my houses quilt

so much so it has out grown the design wall,

that is, the quilt on the wall I have been pinning the blocks to.

But when to stop?

Here's the one I did earlier:

About 20 years earlier!

It's on my son's bed and I had to get him to message me a photo.

Just now. Ahh technology.....

It's from this book.

Glad you kept them? I am.

 

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Old favourites

Sometimes I think I'm done with quilting.

What more is there I want to do?

And people say to you:

"And how many quilts do you have now?"

And then you stumble on a new blog like this one

and I am back at the beginning looking at all the quilts that got me started.

And I am getting started.

Again.

This is my first finish for 2016.

It's from this book by Linda Brannock and Gerry Kimmel

dated 1992.

I have used fabric from the stash for the back

and I'm liking it more and more.

The current project is also from one of these old books.

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