1st SAL.....Peg, Dale and I committed to stitching Anni Downs - A Gardener's Journal in March. I blogged about this on my blog thinking maybe one or 2 others may join us and lots of girls indicated an interest so I decided to start this blog where we can all encourage each other to meet the goals set along the way....March 2010 -March 2011...........
2nd SAL ......well so many of the girls wanted to continue on with another project and some new girls joined us and now approx 91 girls are stitching Natalie Bird's Tis the Season. March to Sept 2011...............
3rd SAL....many girls want to stick with the SAL so now we have moved onto Anni Downs Some Kind of Wonderful - My Favourite Things Quilt.......Oct 2011-Oct 2012.........
Where are we now.....
4th SAL 2013...is numerous smaller projects from the previous 2 books Tis the Season and Some Kind of Wonderful plus some projects from Red Home by Natalie Bird approx 60 ladies stitching together.........
2014 we had the year off..............
5th SAL 2015..........inspired to continue we are doing another quilt project.....Anni Downs newest quilt Natures Journey.....
6th SAL 2017.............A Holly Cottage Christmas by Michelle Ridgway.......once again the pattern is in an affordable book so it is easy for everyone to join in...........and you can raid your stash for the fabrics........or lash out and buy a the whole lot........this SAL will be run by Fiona aka Bubz Rugz and Raewyn........
Chookyblue........

Monday, May 17, 2010

The Garden is Watered...

...both stitcheries for Block G done - yay!  Now to construct the block....at this rate there is a chance that I'll get April's block finished before the end of May!

Seeing all those lovely finished blocks sure is a good motivator...makes me want to see how my fabrics are going to look.

This morning's task before going to sewing group and work is to cut out the fabrics...I wasn't sure how to proceed as I want to do all the cutting in one go but I have more than the 10 fabrics specified in the book and could not decide which ones to use - it takes me longer to make decisions about what than it does to actually construct at times.  Yesterday I had a light bulb moment...add up the number of patches that are needed in total and just start cutting from all my fabrics until I have that number and go with the less controlled and scrappy, albeit all from the same range, approach.  Right, off this computer and into the sewing room!

Enjoy your day...

Annette

3 comments:

Chookyblue...... said...

chop chop..........hope you have all those blocks cut.........enjoy your sewing group........

Grethe said...

Decisons-Decisons,I keep on changing fabrics alot!! Wise to think a day or two before sewing the block together, suppose. Glad you have finished block G stitching;it looks good :-)

Love Bears All Things said...

When I began to sew those smallest squares together, I decided I wanted a few more fabrics in there. Most of them were cut at the beginning but I added a couple of different ones once I began to sew. I can't wait to see yours.
Mama Bear