Applique block
But I’m pleased to say
“that’s one block down and eight to go”
Today I prepped another block in anticipation of something good on the telly tonight,
I haven’t checked, I’m just hoping there is :-0
In progress
Click on the picture for a better view, you’ll see that I don’t mark my background fabric at all,
but I do press the halfway marks, vertical/horizontal and diagonal.
I have a large light box (but even it isn’t quite large enough to fit these very large blocks)
and I prefer to just lay the background fabric over the pattern sheet.
The applique shapes are marked with the stitch line directly on to the right side of the fabric with whatever will show up.
In this case all the fabrics are marked with a white pen except the lighter blue which has been marked with a frixion pen (heat activated) so I have to remember not to iron that one.
I have finished this quilt below which you have seen snippets of
and it looks like this
Quilt previously known as Vintage
Okay I know, you can’t see that much of it but a girl’s got to keep the odd thing up her sleeve.
It does have a name now, it only had a working title of Vintage which either had to go or be extended somehow.
I have decided to call it Eastleigh after the town in Hampshire where my Grandmother was born. It rolls off the tongue easily.
I can tell you that this quilt is destined for Homespun magazine next year, about mid way through so don’t hold your breath just yet.
And I thought I’d just share with you that this elderly lady is still hanging in there despite a few scares this year
" I know I forget lots of things but I don't think I've eaten yet"
Rollo has just had her summer clip and is looking forward to Christmas, just around the corner now.
I’ll be back before then of course,
’til soon
Margaret
