Fabulous. Just right for ex battery hens poor things. My gang wear their own feather duvets, just moulted so all ready for winter. They usually wait until it turns freezing and icy before dumping their feathers.

Great stuff Heather and Rosemary.

I've been on my hols and lounging around in temps of 30 degrees plus so not done much sewing. I did go on a workshop today (driving through frost and snow) and made a piece from torn hand dyed sheets. Lots of squares on top of eachother etc., great fun and her fabric was beautiful space dyed.

Hey Wendy, I saw this on facebook and thought of you! In case you need more projects.

Geneva

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Heather keep up the good work. I agree with Geneva. It's filled with love and care. I'd be happy to be your MIL, very happy!

Rosemary, your blocks look so nice. Funny how a leader/endear project can morph into something you want finished,,,

Heather, your MIL will be very pleased.

It's been a busy week for me with a few monkey wrenches thrown in!! I have a list of things that need to be taken care of, and dusting/wiping all construction dust off is utmost on my list! And,,, I would rather sew than clean.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone,
Luann

Heather, your mil's quilt looks wonderful. I can see all the love in it from here!

Rosemary, your quilt reminds me of summertime, when the living is easy..... Very nicely done and how fun to use up all those bits and pieces of other well loved items. Clever.

I am working on another baby quilt. It's for my grandson Dylan who is to be born in mid January. I was stuck for quite awhile, but found the pattern I wanted to use, pulled all fabrics from my stash and now have the top done. I just need to add a border and his name and of course quilt it. I've been doing a lot of care for my mother so that pokes into my sewing time. But I'm getting there! I'll post a picture in a day or two.

Happy weekend my friends!

geneva

Love it, Rosemary!

I have that pattern printed and saved in a "to do at some point" file.....we'll see if I ever do.

I have been FMQ'ing a quilt for my MIL. I posted the start of that, now I'm nearly done but she comes over today so I had to stop and pack it up (won't have time today to finish it up anyway, and nearly out of thread......). I loosened up the quilting at the suggestion of my good friend, and may or may not go in and undo the beginning parts, as now they stand out quite a lot as "different' from the rest of it, but maybe I will leave it in and call it a feature of the quilt. That is what my friend suggests, "don't go undo!!" but we'll see. I'll likely end up asking DH, see what a non-quilter will see when they look, ya know?

In a funny, though -- while I was still quilting really dense, I was going through thread at an alarming rate, so quickly ordered a cone of the thread so I'd have enough (I had only bought 2 spools to start, was through one and onto the 2nd and only barely started on the quilting at that time).

Then I loosened up the quilting quite a bit and am now nearly done and may possibly finish w/o running out of thread. LOL!!! Well, I'll need it for the binding too, and I do also have to undo two smallish parts where I forgot to put the presser foot down (ugh) so the back is horrible there. But just find it funny; luckily the thread was on sale when I ordered

Here's the "so far" picture.....it's truly not fantastic, but it's for a complete non-quilter and I think she'll love it regardless. It's also not terrible, considering first thing I've FMQed. We won't tell her I used her piece as a practice.....

Very nice. Just got my Celtic Solstice pin basted and ready to quilt. So much fun to see it in a completely different fabric choices. It's lovely, Rosemary.

Think I have managed to finish all my units for my (ahem) leader & ender Celtic Solstice - except that I got too keen on it for it to stay as a leader & ender and also I redesigned several of the units to change it up a bit. Made using bits of shirts that were off cuts from shortening shirt sleeves, an old skirt that didn't fit anymore, a bundle of floral fqs that were given to me when I left Brownies and some butterflies 'cos I liked them.

Now to trim them up and build the larger blocks.

All look great!
Barb

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Over the past week I got my mystery BOM blocks done for November



Then I finished 15 star blocks for my Craftsy BOM Summer quilt. Here are 12 of them,



I then moved on to the November work. It's a center medallion with more angles than I like!



This is no longer sewn together! It wouldn't lay flat, and I was 1/8" off on measurement. Since all the other work has to fit around this, I decided to review how it was to go together,,, I put triangle 'b' on first, then 'a' ! What was I thinking??? No wonder everything was off kilter. I took them apart, put them in my scrap pile, and pulled all the fabrics back out to recut these pieces tomorrow. Then I'll sew it together, in correct sequence, and it will work, it will, it will, it will!!
This Craftsy BOM is a FREEBIE on their site. Kimberly Einmo does a great job of explaining just what to do, I just need to listen better!

Heather,
great job

It looks great, Heather! I'm really glad that you are confident enough to use the contrasting thread. I think it looks great! And I believe that it's easier to quilt in contrasting thread since you can see what you're doing and you also get better quicker with contrasting thread because you can, again, see what you're doing and you can correct yourself as you go along. Your MIL will be thrilled!

The more quilting you do, the more bobbins you go through. And some machines don't fill the bobbins as full. With my older Berninas, I could hold the sensor in place and fill the bobbin fuller than the machine would on its own, but you can also run into more problems if you fill the bobbin too full so you have to be careful with that. I generally use the time between bobbins to clean and oil the machine, so it's good for me to have my bobbins less full.

and what I've done since the halloween table runner --- this is Layer Cake Lemonade (a free Fat Quarter Shop pattern), in purple batiks, for my MIL. She asked a while back for a 'couch throw, in purple, if it isn't too much..." (as a gift, not to pay me, which is totally fine, she does so.very.much. for us; I delight in being able to give people quilts...). Since my FMQ class, I decided a simple layout so I can practice FMQing on a quilt for a person who won't notice mistakes or care about them anyway

It's 70" wide by.....not sure how long. Maybe only 60" wide..? I don't remember....anyway, bigger than "throw sized" but smaller than twin sized.

I have so far done letters in those 5 prints that stick out in the rows, to spell her name (but they don't really show up.....), and did one row. I realized after I completed it, maybe starting in a purple row would have been better, but I knew what I wanted to do in the green rows, so started there (and they are more in the middle). Hopefully the very imperfectness of it will just look cute and more natural, ha!

Used one full bobbin, plus a smidge, and took 45 mins......is it normal to use a whole bobbin?? One 70" x 5" row......

The quilt-- (draped over my table)



Close up of the row --



Off to run youngest to class, grocery shop, etc, and let my arms rest!