What fun it was to seek out the skinny bits from my scrap drawer and join up fabrics by twisting them together. I also had a short go at coiling the fabric twine and trying to stitch together and I made a small coil until I got to a bit I couldn't join up! Here's the result below, with the ball of twine on the left and the small coiled piece on the right.
I have now finished the strippy hearts quilt which I'm pleased with and is another tick off my Finish A Long list. This quilt was started in October 2014, five years ago(in this post here)! I woke it out of hibernation and as I had the backing for quite a while too. From my last post I stitched circles in the main piece and in the black borders I used variegated thread to machine sew some wavy lines.
Next is my Kingfisher quilt, which was layered up last Friday, David was at Swanage Railway and it was a wet day so perfect weather for a job like that.
So this is how the Kingfisher looks
Saturday was a sewing gathering at Colehill and I didn't fancy taking the Kingfisher with me, so I had a couple of Project Linus quilt top packs to piece together, which kept me busy.
Yesterday, Fathers' Day, we had a gathering at my daughter Sarah's house, with a barbecue. My granddaughter, Flo was born a year ago today, which last year was Fathers' Day. At a year old she crawls at speed and is now standing supported by the furniture, but it won't be long until she takes her first steps unaided. This was a photo that I took a couple of weeks ago when standing by the stair gate.
Its amazing how time flies!
I'll finish off this post with some flowers from the garden, which I took to Sarah yesterday, they were in a small vase until we went to hers.
The rain must be doing the garden a power of good.
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