Lots of Eye Candy!

This months class was full of eye candy, not to mention the delicious homemade broth and bread for lunch.  Oh and fresh organic home grown limes thanks to a visit from Moira.  As you can see it was a fun day.  So without further delay….

 First up - Stephanie's quilt from MO book.  The photo doesn't really do justice to this beauty.  Love love love the DJ's purple fabric!  Please persevere with it as can't wait to see it finished!

Also on Stephanie's divine work are these blocks.  I am just sorry I didn't take a photo at the end of the day when there were another 3 pieced!  I think so far Stephanie has used over 100 fabrics??? maybe?? Loving the leopard print!

The lovely Denny's work for the week….. love love love the use of the AMH.  This is one lucky person who is going to get this beauty.

Home made bread…. please note the hand printed table cloth that is equally as delicious as the bread! 

Next up Elizabeth.  Again the photos don't this work justice.  There are a few shots in there and the fabric simply shines.  I can not wait, please do lots of work this month Elizabeth, to see more of these blocks.  

Me - without bragging too much - I am in love with this one!  I have some solutions for the side borders, after great deliberation and quilting by consensus, so now I just need to do it.  So far still sitting in my quilting bag at the front door.  However, as i have resigned from work I may just have packed a few jewels that need to be pieced together to fill in my time at the office….

Lastly - we will all wait with baited breath to see what direction this takes…. just a sneak peak  Note ladies, we may be needing to search deep into our stashes, or friends stashes, or op shops, for some "old fabric" for Sue's next creation…..

Have a great week everyone, I officially have 6.75 days of work left.  Hope Kate is having a fabulous trip, which I am sure she will be.

Ciao, Kim

Needle Down & Knee Lift

Just had a moment of realisation this afternoon that it is only one week until our next class and I need to do a bit of work to complete the "challenge' that Sue set for us.  And as fate would have it, Sue called me this evening to check on my progress and how I was going sewing the pie into the bow ties.

Well I hadn't started of course….  but luckily she had passed on some words of advise for me and asked me to share with you.  Sue had done some reading and noted that the old quilting books all recommended putting the pie on the bottom and the tie on top.  And the more recent / modern books and tutorials all say pie on top tie on bottom.  Importantly all say pin, pin, pin, pin, pin and then pin some more!

Sue found that the pie on bottom tie on top worked best for her, along with about 16 pins!

Now I've been playing and found that the tie on bottom and pie on top worked best for me.  I used about 5 pins for each pie to tie.  But most importantly I found that the needle down position on your machine and the knee lift worked wonders.  It gave me the ability to easily adjust the tie bit by bit easily as the needle down position kept the two tight in place.  I did quite a few blocks and only had 2 little gathers so overall pretty good result for me.  Having said that I have done at least 2 quilts using drunken path and this probably gave me good practise.

Here are a few photos for you of my small progress.  This week I will have to be very studious and do some sewing to see if I can meet the challenge.

Look forward to seeing you all next week, and most of all seeing how everyones challenge went.

Ciao Kim