Bulletin Board

Just doing some embroidery on the new bulletin board cover for the foyer of our new shop location, 

Using big stitches,,!

 

Back to some sewing

After spending the past two months renovating and moving and unpacking, I have finally spent a few days getting back to the best part, sewing.

I finished the disappearing nine patch kids quilt and it is at the shop as a sample for some kits.

Finally got the borders on the batik quilt I started eons ago, and it is being quilted by Margo,

Got intrigued by the idea of five inch squares.  I know, it doesn't take much some days.

I had a couple of charm packs of Honeysweet, by Fig Tree by moda.   I sewed connector corners on to two sides of the squares, and then combined four into one block. 

Some sashing, and now it's ready for a border.   

I'm thinking that I might be able to quilt it myself if its not too large, 

Child play

It has been many weeks since I spent any time sewing, and so today I decided to make something simple and straightforward.  More than once I had admired some fabrics by Makower that have little birds and elephants and clouds on them, and I decided to make a Disappearing Nine patch baby quilt.  

I ended up using red for the centres of the nine patch blocks, and so they turned into the small squares.  

I tried laying out the blocks so that the red squares all faced the same direction, but it seemed to regulated for me.

So I went back to the first layout, but I moved things around so that all the animals in the big squares faced the same direction.

I think I will use a small border of red, and then a wider outer border.  I will have to go find those fabrics later since I only have the fabrics for the blocks right now. 

I think this might be one of those projects where the quilting design is important to add to the overall effect of the quilt, so I will have to put some thought into how to quilt it.  

At the post office, there was a nice display of art made by some local schoolchildren,

Unpacking continues....

Mountain ranges of fabrics,

New Art to Heart fabrics by Nancy Halvorson!

(Plus lots more new fabrics... Batiks, Lynnette Anderson,, Atomic Cats by Alexander Henry...)

The thread station

We've only now got to the stage where we are unearthing the quilts to put up on the walls, 

Block 13, Chevrons

Block 13, Chevrons