The big bad ugly

In autumn 2013 there was a one block wonder QAL I was reluctant to join, because I was not really looking forward to buying a big print fabric only to cut it up in pieces ... until I found one of the most ugly fabrics in my (inherited) stash.

I had no qualms whatsoever to cut it into tiny pieces and make a complete mess out of it ... but somehow the fabric worked and I started puzzling and tryign to find placements to get that colour flow within a squarish-shape ...

Once I had finished the toop I had to look for the most fantastic backing ever - I mean with that front, it needed to be extra garish ... and I did find something ... more nightmare-ish flowers

now that I finished quilting ... I need to wait for nice weather to take some shots that show it's grand ugliness in its best light ...

The Red Herring is quilted

I llowed myself a bit of sewing fun tonight - I had a last row to do on my Red Herring and it kept staringat me - that is getting in the way being moved around ...

It was really hard to capture the quilting lines - even though it's black thread on red ...

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new year new quilting

Sunday was football night - my shifts are no wednesday and thursday, so I am free on Mondays and that's a prerequisite for football nights, the first game usually starts around 7pm here ...

At least that gave me most of Sunday - no work for uni on Sundays - to get a head start quilting my Red Herring. Someone pointed out that maybe STD would be the perfect solution, well yes I admit it's effective and it sort of looks good at the back, but it takes hoooours to get a row done ...

Ohh and of course there are all those breaks in a game and you can't keep eating for the whole thing - so while knitting was out as mycurrent project has enormous needles a little bit of hand quiltingfor a cushion cover was within the possibilities...

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presenting a finish

It's really time I present this one - it's been finished and waiting for me to either clean up my design floor or take it outside for a few pictures. So I took it with me to hand in a paper and stopped along the way cycling home. I present:

name: redorangepurple (BeeBiased 2014)
size: 66" x 60"
patter: Thrifty (the pieced block) + solid squares
quilting: machine quilted on my machine in a diagonal lines
back: framed signature blocks

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a new round of wrestling

I think - now - it was a really really really nutty idea to quilt this thingy in circles. - Why did noone warn me? fellow quilters are not supposed to let others walk blindinly into circle sewing hell!

no worries the white tape is just for the thump - got hit by a ball and bent a little too much. The white is nicer than the purplish blue though ... the blue band aid on the pinky- well I was really stupid moving my sewing machine over a bit, touched one of the little light bulbs - and I know you are not supposed to put band aids on blisters, but I can't have spots on my white quilt ...

aren't those socks fabulous?

See how so not good the fabric placement is for quitling? I don't know what I did wrong with the initial basting, but I seriously had to re-do it in the corners. Any ideas as to why that happend?

I shall continue with the circling with now newly basted straight corner. That's the reason for an unvoluntary break - but it's time for dinner anyway

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the end of torture is drawing near

It was an interessting experience, but I don't think I'm looking forward to writing a paper in English again - ever. My "thoughs" need to be turned into "howevers" and I seem to constantly mess up the use of "these" and "those" and have an un-English high use of "the". Did I mention I suck at punctuation?

Thankfully, for the sake of my sanity (and that of any other person daring to distract me while writing) it's almost done and I'm in the process of letting it sit and give the whole thing a break for a last read-trhough and last minute change session over the weekend.

So yeah I'm into "sewig" again - I didn't really do anyhting apart from preparing sport shorts for this summer = sew the pockets shut so I don't get disqualified.

I'm presenting the beginnings of: "Keen on Green" for mochawildchild

And I made a dent in circling the square .... 

And started on some star and irish chain blocks to send off  by Friday ...

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welcome spring

Since the weekend the weather is sunny and warm - feels almost hot - well ok it's warm enough for skirts with knee-hights and sweatshirts. And did I mention sunny? and it smells like spring, the first things are blooming - daffodils and snow bells and some of those cherry tress that are just for show. Well anyway the whole spring thingy had me sewing a bit more than the no sewing somethign that's not for a swap or a bee ...

I finally got my monster ready to quilt soem more circles ... just a few more days ... and it could be finished. The other thing I did was work with some wool scraps - very strange thin, flimsy, soft wool. There will be a second set somwhere along the way ... when my sewing machien is free again ...

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linking up with WIP Wednesday

midweek

well I had a little bit of free time yesterday and I started quilting my monster ... and I had some more time this mornign to get a bee block done ...

see how puffy that batting is

and of course I've been working a little on my Celtic Solstice

some of the blocks on my freshly cleaned design floor ... an ice cream carton of 2" squares ...

and I got my ticket for the London Book Fair ...

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a finish

Yay - Vicotry ... I always love finishing the last two stitches of the binding. Now you will have to excuse the crappy pictures but the weather here is rather un-sunny in the last few days and it's not looking like it's changing so when I decided yesterday evening not to take pictures with a flash I didn't want to wait another day to take a few pictures.

So let me introduce my newest finish:

 "Walk the Line" it's 47" x 67" (or 120cm x 170cm)

a quilting detail (and much better colours)

And that's it I need to go back to my papers and in between try to memorise plays ... and iron binding for the other quilt ... maybe more of the black I have a lot of black binding left over....

 Leo