REMEMBRANCE DAY

POPPY DAY

Hello!

I have entered my quilt "IN FLANDERS' FIELDS" in this weeks QUILTING GALLERY contest  REMEMBERING VETERANS QUILT CONTEST.   You can vote for FOUR quilts.....  click HERE to go to voting.  There are some absolutely beautiful quilts entered this week.

Thanks everyone!  I'll be back on the weekend with more quilty/sewing news....  been busy getting ready for a Xmas Craft Sale which is this coming Tuesday...  and doing some sewing for Christmas gifts too!

Happy Sewing!!

POPPIES FOR POPPA AND ANOTHER SIGGY

Hi everyone! At last, the Poppy Quilt is finished and delivered. I was up 'till quite late on Tuesday night, putting the binding on and doing the label! I presented the quilt to the RSL yesterday at a Remembrance Day service at the shopping centre where my Dad used to sell the Badges and poppies for Remembrance Day.

I took a photo of my father's plaque on display at the shopping centre. My mother and my niece and B.B. were with me. Little B.B. was somewhat confused when I gave her the red poppy to hold during the service, because I kept saying "here's your poppy" and I'm sure she was looking around for her Poppy (as in Grandad)!!! Once the quilt is up on the wall at the RSL club I will take more photos.

I received another lovely Siggy block in the mail yesterday - this one is from Angelika.... THANK YOU ANGELIKA, your block is so beautiful. I now have a public album of my Siggy Blocks.

So now it's back to the Christmas Quilt and the zillion other projects which seem to be piling up all over my sewing room! The Beach Quilt is coming along nicely, I think I have about 8 blocks ready now.

Happy Sewing!

THE POPPY QUILT IS GROWING AND ANOTHER SIGGY BLOCK

This is as far as I got yesterday with the Poppy Quilt - and then I ran out of the cream fabric, so the next stage of the quilt is a little different. I'm working on that now.

I have used the Wonder-cut ruler to make the HST's for this quilt. They are finished size 6 1/2" and I found the accuracy to be not as great for this size as the smaller size I used on the recent Ruler Workshop project. I think it's because you have to slide the ruler down to be able to cut along the side of the triangle - I'm going to play with this another time to see if I can figure out where I went wrong or at least another way to cut both sides of the triangle to achieve better accuracy -I found my new ruler purchase, the Simplicity Studio 6 1/2" Simpli-EZ Square to be the best ruler I have used for "squaring up" my blocks. It has 45 degree lines on each diagonal, making it perfect for checking the HST's. It's very clearly marked, much better than my old 6 1/2" rulers.

I received another beautiful Siggy block in the mail today - thank you Inge! It is so lovely. I have sent you my Siggy Block!!

O.K., back to the sewing machine...............