PLAYING WITH PAPER DOLLS...

 

Hello !

Well suddenly it’s mid October ... and I have been in a sewing slump so I don’t have too much to show...

I did purchase a wonderful vintage book recently ...

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A lovely SIGGY block arrived all the way from Texas, USA.  Surprisingly my return SIGGY arrived in Texas ... taking only three weeks.  

We spent a glorious few days at our unit in Surfers Paradise to celebrate my 65th birthday,  the weather was warm so we went swimming every day....

A “paper doll” machine appliqué tee shirt ...  I’m still playing with different stabilisers and techniques in starting and stopping the stitching.... my machine has a lock stitch but I find it’s a bit untidy and leaves a small lump where it stitches in place.      The paper doll pattern is a sew along by The Red Boot Quilt Company. 

So that’s all for now, I’m slowly getting back into some sewing so I do hope to have a lot of show and tell by the next Post. 

Happy sewing!

Cheers,

Helen

A NEW YEAR .... 2020 ...

Hello!

Happy New Year to all.   I wonder how I will go with attempting to keep this Blog up to date this year... dismal failure for the last couple of years.  😁😁😟

and so to catch up..... where were we?   My goodness, my last Post was back in July 2019 .....

A NEW FARM QUILT IN THE MAKING
A BOY VERSION THIS TIME

CHRISTMAS SEWING ... COASTERS AND NEEDLE NANNIES

THE GIRL FARM QUILT READY FOR PINNING

AT LAST! THE NEXT BLOCK FOR MY HAND APPLIQUÉ VERSION OF LAND DOWN UNDER

TEACHING MY NEIGHBOURS LITTLE GRANDDAUGHTER TO SEW

CASABLANCA SUNRISE .. ALL SEWN ON MY 201K TREADLE

2020 STASHBUSTER QUILT

The STASHBUSTER quilt along can be found at BORDER CREEK STATION http://www.bordercreekstation.com/the-stash-buster-challenge-2020.htm

NEW SIGGY BLOCK .. THIS YEAR I’M INCLUDING MY NEEDLE NANNY

MY NIECE REQUESTED A COSY FOR TWO MINUTE NOODLES (RAMEN)
I THOUGHT IT WOULDN’T WORK BUT SHE SAYS IT WORKS PERFECTLY!

CHRISTMAS AT THE MCNAUGHTS

XMAS SEWING.... THE SEVEN PIECE FOLDED  HEXAGON  COASTER

WALKING FOOT QUILTING ON THE FARM QUILT

TRYING THE THREAD POST FROM THE FEATHERWEIGHT SHOP..
FEEDS THE CROSSWOUND THREAD OVER TO THE NEEDLE
SO SMOOTHLY

CHRISTMAS PARCEL... AUSSIE TEE SHIRTS AND NEW PILLOWCASES

CASABLANCA  SUNRISE BLOCK ON THE TREADLE

SET FOR OUR ANNUAL XMAS PARTY

SMOKE HAZE DURING THE TERRIBLE FIRES

CHRISTMAS SHIRTS

GO CUTTING APPLIQUÉ SHAPES

WASHING UP SCRUBBY

A NEW MAKE ... AN ECO FRIENDLY WASHING UP SCRUBBY

2020 STASHBUSTER .. JANUARY BLOCKS

CASABLANCA SUNRISE

The Casablanca Sunrise block is from the magazine QUILT NOW a UK Magazine. Issue 56.

The eco friendly washing up scrubby is a tutorial at HappiestCamper https://happiestcamper.com/diy-zero-waste-kitchen-sponge/. I’ve been using mine since Christmas and it works really well.

The seven piece folded hexagon coaster is also a tutorial https://babylock.com/learn-and-create/inspiration/folded-hexagon-coasters-project

So, as you can see,  I have been sewing.....

Happy sewing!
Cheers from Helen

TULIPS

 

Such a beautiful Siggy Block arrived this week - thank you so much Mieke!  Love your tulip!

We are getting a lot of rain here - coming off Cyclone Debbie.  Although we needed rain, this is just too much!

Schools are closed, many businesses also shut. 

So my motto for today- stay home, stay dry and sew on (although we did go out for coffee!)

Cheers from Helen

 

Siggy

I received a lovely Siggy block recently.

Thank you Magda! It's beautiful!

My collection is quite large so I really must make another wall hanging or something!

Posting this from my phone - out having coffee 😀☕️☕️

I really must get back to blogging, having Mobile Blogger on my phone makes it much easier to post something quickly🙂 but I've been pretty terrible at updating my Blog lately - it reminds me of my school report cards "Helen must try harder"🙄🙄🙄

Cheers from Helen

BACK IN BUSINESS!

Thanks to a sewing machine fix-it man, I'm back quilting! It turned out to be just a little pin which had come out (I was sewing VERY fast!) and would you believe it..... I found it in the quilt!

I've decided to send my Siggy swap friends a Christmas Siggy, here is the first one I have sent.

My Holly Jolly Christmas Wallhanging is now almost 100% complete.... just need to dig into my stash of buttons and sew a few around the border (this will cover up a few glitches in my quilting!) I used two different fabrics for the binding..... they were all I had left!! I will put a label on it, will do that through the week. It's hard to pick it, but there is a hanging sleeve at the top! I used the leftover bits from the edges after I had finished quilting it.

Back to quilting the Flea Market Boxes! Almost all the way around..... hooray :-)

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...............