August into September

Seems ages since I last blogged and I had hoped to get this done before the end of August.  But the usual 'where does the time go...'  time runs away with me and its now into September.

Here's my mini quilt from 10 years ago which I've used as a marker for Instagram this month.  I quite like the contrast of the colours against the black and white backgrounds.  I had a phase of using black/white and white/black a few years ago and a still have fat quarters (or parts thereof) of those fabrics.

Anyway what have I been up to?  A second quilt exhibition in a month, this time the West Country Quilt Show.  Luckily one of the local groups was running a coach trip so no driving was involved and it was a good day out.  Being a smaller show makes it easy to get around and talk to people.  The different specialist groups were demonstrating their skills so there are a lot of ideas to pick up.  I've done a collage of some of the photos I took.

Some really brilliant quilts and exhibits, this show is growing popularity.

I've made my Siblings Together blocks for July/August and those have been sent to the Block Mama.

I wasn't too happy about the bottom block (with the fishes) but they might be put to good use. I really like the September block and made that already, but will post that later.

There has been a bit of crochet going on and I've made a teddy, which I started at Knit and Natter last Thursday morning and finished on Sunday.  Here it is before stuffing

 Looks like Flat Eric, but it (he/she?) is lying on a knitted square which was my coach knitting when I went to the quilt show.

 And here it is stuffed and below getting comfortable on the chair in my room.

This is a community project for Yarndale, which I will be going to at the end of September (yay!!!).  There are details about knitted and crochet bears for Mercy Ships (read about it here) and the crochet pattern is by Lucy of Attic24  which was really easy to follow.

Another item that I've made is a Granny Square for Granny Square Day which was on 15 August, though there are still posts about it now - seems like a long day!  This pattern was by Sweet Sharna here and a pretty block it is too! 

I'm still keeping up with with my Bramble Patch kit which has 0.5" honeycomb hexies and a 3rd square has been completed.  What I have done to arrange the blocks before sewing is to make a mini design board 6" square made of mount board with wadding over.  I used binding clips to clip fine net over the top to try and keep the pieces in place.

This was how the other 2 blocks look, so its coming together

I'm also keeping up with #100hexies100days so far on Week 10 and posted day 64.  Here's what the other weeks looked like.

Week 6 - Adventure

Week 7 - Japanese (for some reason I didn't do a collective photo)

Week 8 - Sewists choice - I chose some mini charm squares (but I now can't find the rest of the pack!)

Week 9 - I-Spy - hexies are hidden amongst the Kingfisher quilt ones.

So that's what I've been up to in August.  In September I hope to get some quilting done on one of my Finish A Long quilts and have a quilt top ready to put together for the Scrap Busting Sew Along.  

There's just time for me to link up with Mini Archie's Furtle Around the Blogosphere.  So here's the link 

There's been a few explorations to so will share that soon.