Thursday, October 28, 2010

Friday Flaunt

I have been busy finishing UFO's this months total is 3 finished and about 30 to go.  I had listed about 20 UFO's for the MelbCBD Scquilters group but I found more.  I was looking through boxes for cream on cream fat quarters which I know I have about 20 of when I found another heaps of UFO's I had forgotten about.

The first UFO is my version of Country Times by Cathy Stevenson of Canberra I had this quilt machine quilted by Sue Morris of Cotton Top Quilting in Waterways here in Melbourne, I am very pleased with Sue's quilting and the quilt I cut the quilt out when we were in Tweed Heads in 2007 from fabrics I head taken with me on our caravan trip.  I bought 1 fat quarter of Sage Green in Tweed Heads and the backing I bought at the Gold Coast Craft and Quilt Fair 2007 Cathy Hodgkiss helped me spend money at the fair pointing out different gadgets that were a must have.
13/1/11 Looking through my blog and noticed that this quilt is being held up the wrong way will have to rectify that soon.


This UFO is the Mystery Quilt I designed for the online MQ group mine is 50 X 50" Christmas wall hanging.  I machine quilted this on the second try, the first lot of machine quilting I froggy stitched and started again using a meandering stitch from top to bottom.
The final UFO is pattern and fabric from Oz Dye Art girls Ami Hillege and Michelle Steele.   The Pattern was in AP&Q Year Book Vol 7 No. 2.  This quilt is a wall hanging .

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Froggy stitching

I was half way through machine quilting my MQ 11 when I decided I didn't like the quilting as it was too dense.  Now in the process of froggy stitching the centre of this quilt.  Thank goodness for Leesa Segele's technique of unpicking with a scapel it's a lot quicker.  The quilt is a lap size.