And here’s what I’ve decided to work on…
Remember these fabrics I bought a few months ago?
Contemporary and Snazzy
Well I think a weekend away is a perfect opportunity to get started on my modern quilt for friends in NZ.
In fact I’m pretty sure I’ll get all the blocks sewn…
…because it’s pretty basic.
I have cut all the pieces, sixteen 18″ square blocks. Yep, that’s the block laid out there.
I didn’t have enough of one fabric for the top right hand corner piece so will use three different fabrics there.
There will be applique (fusible) splashes of the three stripes… for interest.
Though it looks pretty busy at the moment.
I’ve never done anything like this modern stuff before so am just having a play and kind of making it up as I go.
I have drawn up a koru (unfurling fern frond) shape for the applique but am now leaning toward a leaf shape.
I have grabbed a pile of half empty longarm machine bobbins to use up too, I love that feeling of finishing something…
even if it’s only a bobbin.
Project box, including my quilt ‘map’ ready to go in the car.
Next…
maybe I will want to do some hand quilting in the evenings.
This quilt (my Welsh Quilt repro) has been on my mind a bit for the last month or so.
I really want to get it finished so I can get the pattern underway…
well actually the pattern is done really but with no photo of the finished quilt it isn’t much of a pattern.
So I gathered up the tools required and will take this to work on too.
I have not hand quilted for sooooo long, I don’t even know what size needle will be comfortable for me anymore,
LOL, you can see I have grabbed a selection, just in case.
I hope I haven’t forgotten some vital piece of hand quilting apparatus.
All the quilting pattern decisions are made, all I need is the ‘woman’ hours.
A little bit of bedtime reading is also a retreat treat so I whilst in town this evening
I popped in to the newsagent for my guilty pleasure.
bliss.
I think I will not take any Maltaville blocks to work on after all… I will stick to what I have here and
actually achieve something that way.
I’ll show you the results when I get back.
I hope your weekend is a good one too.
Have a wonderful productive time Margaret
Love those Modern fabrics too. It is good to get out of your comfort zone once in a while 
Have Fun
Don’t forget your thimble for the hand quilting!!! I didn’t see one in your picture.
Have fun!
Hi Erin, thanks…yes had a thimble. Didn’t get quite as much quilting done as I had hoped but it did get me started on that quilt again so that was a good thing…hopefully I can keep up the momentum on it now and see it through to completion. Unfortunately when I opened it completely to start I hadn’t done as much as I thought, that was a little deflating :((
Have a great sewing weekend. Will be thinking of you, as l am on retreat in Sorrento with a bunch of girls too!!! I am looking forward to seeing your new quilt.
Thanks Linda and Lynne, I’m back and had a super time…posting about it soon. Hope you had a good time at Sorrento Linda. Now I’m looking foward to Quilts in the Barn…see you then :))
Margaret :))