don't be too shocked..............

 while I feel like I have lost the last 2-3 months finally I have something to show.........

So much has happened that I feel like I am back in July.........but I find the calendar says mid October and Christmas is around the corner...........

I had a retreat in between but it feels like a life time ago........so one day I will have to come back and do a post about that but I barely have any pics as other things were taking my concentration.........

But at that retreat I brought a little fat 1/4 bundle of 10 Tilda fabrics.......When I found them last week I had even forgotten that I had done any shopping at the retreat.........

Such a pretty little bundle..........

I had a little google and found a YouTube video with a quilt...........OMG my notes I drew down were interesting to say the least..............but I managed to work it out.......

So I decided to see if anyone wanted to chat while I cut it out Sunday night...........Took no time to cut out...........I cut 5 fat 1/4's at once..........

Such a simple quick quilt............perfect for my 10 fat 1/4's....

Fat 1/4 Mixer Quilt....click on the name it's got a link to the quilt.......

Just really shows off the prints...........

Quick simple and took about 3 hrs from start to finish....that includes ironing the fabrics and chatting also...........I got the block cut and pieced while on zoom and had to go to get dinner and shut the Chooks in.......so I laid it out and finished it this morning.........

Stoked I didn't cut any of the peoples heads off............considering I didn't think about it when cutting cause it would do my head in I had it under other fabrics when I cut it out...........

my finished size is 50x60 so a nice smaller quilt...........

HELP

Does anyone have a 2.5in strip of any of the fabrics in the quilt or even 2x 1/2 width..........I need that much more and I can bind the quilt with the left overs..........

Will definitely be making this one again................

I have a Di Ford bundle of 30 fabrics or bright Bonnie and Camille range...........

Which one should I cut up next??????

I feel so good actually getting this cut and pieced.........I have plenty of quilts sitting around I could work on but really just needed to see quick progress.....

and have the feel good moment................

This ticked all the boxes.........

Catch you later......

Chookyblue......

PS sorry have dropped off the planet with blog reading also but I have another months leave so hope to get a little caught up in that time.........and seek out some inspiration from you all........

Tilda Orange.........

This quilt was started on a weekend when Anni and Kylie came to stay link here....when I found that post it was 2018......wow time flies........ Anni had the fabrics and wanted a sample for the shop (sadly shop closed now) for when the new range arrived..... We started on this design.... Anni had a lovely blue linen to mix in with hers and I worked on the sample for her until we ran out of blue linen...... She had more at the shop so it was sewn as much as we could...... Anni had some left over fabrics which she shared with Kylie and myself so I started making a version for myself using white as that's what I had on hand........

Annette came to sew for a weekend later last year and I got the borders onto the quilt .....

Annette was sewing a Tilda quilt that weekend also............

This one was quilted by Jackson as Annette was able to take the quilt back and he quilted it for me...... It was around the time of very unreliable postage so I wasn't keen to mail it off.... So once quilted it took a bit of time to get back to me.......I used the same border fabric to bind it with.........

too many pics once again...........

Can't think of the name of the Tilda range that this comes from..... 

Actually got the better of me and I went googling once I knew it was 2018

The range is Bird Pond for the internal quilt..............not sure what the border is from.........

Tilda is pretty......

you can't really see it but I used a different orange Tilda fabric for the backing......its got pink/aqua flowers on it...........

the smaller prints made the 4 patches and the bigger prints made the bigger blocks............

once again having fun but challenging finding enough different quilt photo locations..........

started another binding last night and could have it finished tomorrow..........

Not sure who will get this quilt but I think I will give it to someone I love....... 

For now it will sit in the bundle of quilts.........

So good to have another finish.......

The binding was finishing on the zoom binding marathon on Sunday...... 

The smallest of all the quilts to bind........

Tilda Orange measures 67x60in.......

these flowers are a weed growing in the paddocks I found today..........

weeds but pretty............

We were checking a few sheep for flies but the other major job was to find some fire wood because if we don't need it tomorrow it will be very soon.........big cold weekend coming up so everyone will have there fires going if they haven't lit them yet...........

OK best go.....i've got more binding to do.........

Keep the love of blogging alive..........

Catch you later..........

Chookyblue.......

fun weekend......

Annette arrived Friday and we went and cleared off the beast in preparation for having a play........

But before I attempted to tackle the beast I wanted to achieve something.....

I had been playing with this quilt below.......I had pulled out 2 blocks in the bottom corner but on looking closer I had to reverse stitch all 6 blocks......so much for achieving.....

I was so cross as I had already attached the 1st border...........

But finally we went forward stitching and it was back together and the final border was attached............

For some reason this one is square but I thought it was going to be rectangle from the picture.........oh well.......I think its about 70in square...........now to join the backing and see about quilting.......

Today I was sitting looking at the bottom corner and thought I had buggered it up but turns out I just had it upside down to how I had been looking at it.........phew.........

I've been walking over to the dam a bit and it is so nice to see it chockers full heading into summer..... we had almost 2 inchs of rain last week........Annette and I walked over also.........

We loaded some fabric onto the beast and had a play.....broke a few threads....just trying to get even stitches at present.........i'm not in love..........Its official Lou @ Manxgirl Living and Crafting Down Under needs to come visit....but I have left it on and will keep playing.......

OK it may not be the one that got taken to Princess Pantry but it was pretty dam tasty........Loved this cake...........Its the one Annette was talking about on zoom last time. Its a ginger fluff sponge........ I'm going to try making one...... Or at least a sponge cake on the weekend......

Annette was working on this one at home and had a few blocks to join on the 5th row.........once that was done she started sewing the rows together..........it looks great.............. Top together ready for quilting......so pretty in Tilda fabrics

The whole time I was going in and outside I could smell this gorgeous rose........Susan Cooper Rose from Swanes.

And this section is ready to pop into the quilt.........

Annette was hand stitching more Ruby blocks to the backgrounds but I forgot to take a photo......

It was a lovely time sewing with a friend in the Chookshed..... Miss Jules even popped over late one afternoon...... And we had two scrub stitching friends on zoom for awhile also......

It was a lovely weekend with Annette.....

I did sew borders on another top..... But I'll save that for the next post ......

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue.....