Messy House - Focus Cutting

The past few weeks I seem to have gotten further behind in challenges and projects, not that I'm stressing, I know I WILL finish them, but maybe not on time. 

Moving downstairs to my sewing room has meant that a lot of stash is all over the place, with much still being upstairs in the laundry (that's where my stash started). On Halloween day, while looking through some blog posts from the Link up Parties that week, I saw a lovely table runner for Halloween. Too late for me for Halloween, or so I thought. I commented how beautiful her table runner was and that I would aim for next year. I got a reply to start now and it would be finished for next year. Challenge accepted! Going through my Halloween fabric box I came across the bunting I had made a few years earlier, and thought the left overs would make a quick table runner, and it looks great, even got to use it on Halloween Night family dinner 😊.

Sew now I think I will use some Aussie Christmas bunting to make a few more table runners. My year long projects that I'm currently doing are:- a tag sew along and  'focus cutting' half  hexies. 

The July theme for the Focus cutting was animals:

August theme was Human - weird, and could be really anything, there was also only three prompts, again weird 😊.

August /September, memories.... week 34 was fabric I purchased in Port Augusta, some years ago. It was in a FQ fabric pack and I have memories of using it many times in epp projects. Week 35 was Tula Pink fabric, that I purchased in Kyneton, also some years ago. I love most of Tula Pink's fabrics, one very clever lady. Week 36 is my memory of drinking a different flavoured black tea each Saturday while I was sewing. Saturday was my de-stressing day after a long week of working, and the only day I gave to myself. Good memories.

That took us to the middle of September, and the theme 'my perfect day'. That's where I'm up to. A lot of catching up to do, and this is my reminder to go and prepare ALL the fabric to cut ready to stitch during the weeks. 

I'm also finishing off the Partners in Design Destination Quilt - 3 blocks to go. This I started while on our trip and found I couldn't dedicate the time needed while travelling this beautiful country of ours. I'll show you the completed blocks next time.

AND coming up is Bonnie Hunter's new mystery, which is always good. I need to start getting the fabric our for that.

Link up Parties:

Wednesday-Wait-Loss

Whoop whoop Friday Friday – SundayUS time

Off the Wall Friday Friday - Tuesday

Finished (or Not) Friday Friday - Monday

A Pageant of Finishes Friday - Thursday

Peacock Party Friday - Monday

Stitch Sew and Show

UFO 2 finished

So happy that I finished little Ava's Quilt on Saturday, I decided to finish another quilt I had started. This one is for my daughter Emma. Her birthday is Halloween, so I thought a Halloween lap quilt would be in order.

In between, I opened an Etsy store and a Pink Fairy Quilts Facebook page. We'll see how these go.

While on our trip to USA in September 2010 we were driving up the historic Route 100 in Vermont and came across a quilting shop - nothing else around other than trees - so we had to stop, oh dear LOL. This is where I bought the Halloween quilt kit. The only instructions were a picture and I copied it as much as I could.

 The ladies in the shop were very helpful and cheerful and said it was ok to take as many photos as we liked.

It was a wonderful find.

http://www.waterwheelhouse.com/

So..... in December during the first week of the school holidays we went to Corindi, on the mid North Coast of New South Wales and I started Emma's quilt.

It is almost summer so Emma didn't need a large quilt, a lap quilt will be fine for those cooler spring evenings.

 

So here are on Sunday.

I had some children's material mask fabric and decided to use that as part of a pieced back for the quilt.

I cut lots of strips of 'Halloween' colour fabric and added one piece of Halloween printed fabric and simply sewed around 'log cabin' style.

..... and finished back.

I decided the best quilting to do would be a giant spider web - to keep in line with the Halloween theme.

Pinning the border

Finished quilt

You can see the spider quilting here.

Now I really do need to move on to the I Spy Cookie Jar wall hanging - or maybe part 2 of modern mystery quilt (part 3 comes out tomorrow).

Happy Sewing