I love to sew, mainly quilts and bags. I am 66, married to Fred and have one son, Matthew, who is 27. I enjoy embroidery and applique and prefer to machine piece and quilt my projects. I love my vintage Singer sewing machines especially my Featherweight 222K. I’m enjoying treadling on my 201K Singer and I collect Miniature Sewing Machines and currently have three Essex , one Singer 20, one Singer 40, two Vulcan Miniatures and my latest, a Grain. My love of sewing I believe comes from my Grandmother - I still have the drawings she made for me to embroider on tea towels many many years ago!

Wednesday 25 November 2009

QUILTING, MORE QUILTING AND THEN JUST A BIT MORE!

I am so pleased with myself!! :-) I finished the quilting on the Flea Market Boxes quilt and now I'm doing the hand sewing on the binding. I had planned to use the all machine binding method as in here but after heavily quilting it I have decided that the usual method was called for as I thought it might look a little off with the line of "quilting" on the front which results from using the all machine method. {note: I LOVE this way of attaching the binding and will use it whenever I can!} As you can see, I went just a little crazy with the quilting.... I would call it "scribbling" as opposed to meandering!





I'm just loving going to the mail-box lately.... there seems to be a new Siggy Block arriving every day! This beautiful "lace bobbin" design is from Magteld - THANK YOU Magteld, my Siggy will be on its' way to you very soon!

Today MH and I went to the Gym (boy, was it HOT) then naturally..... out for coffee!! - I continued to do the blanket stitch on the fish/whale/starfish appliques for BB's new Beach Quilt (it's coming along very well, I've added a purple to the blocks, so I have to make a few more .... it will now be 5 X 5) and of course, MH read the newspaper:-) Now I'm in the sewing room working on some more Siggy Blocks so I always have one on hand to post away.

Have a great day! and Happy Sewing,
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  1. Lynda25 November 2009 at 14:15

    I love your scribbling. I have got to be more adventurous and try machine quilting with more than just a few straight lines.

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  2. Helen McNaught @ AuntyHennys25 November 2009 at 15:43

    Thanks Lynda, a glass of wine definitely helps! Meandering (or scribbling in my case!) certainly is much quicker than quilting "in the ditch" or straight lines. I still do straight lines especially on the diagonal - it suits a lot of designs. I will do "in the ditch" and then meander all over that too, depends how big the quilt is!
    Have a lovely day:-)

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  3. Twisted Quilts25 November 2009 at 23:44

    Aren't you a busy little bee! I love your quilting. I really want to work on mine this winter. Lets see if I can find the time.

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  4. Sue27 November 2009 at 09:28

    Can't wait to see the products of your labours.

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