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........

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Proof!

So...the whip was cracked, and everyone was shuddering in their boots a little! The deadline is looming!

I wasn't too worried though :)  I'd completed all my blocks, and even put my quilt top together a couple of months back, so was feeling pretty confident that I could escape that nasty whip of Chooky's....until I realised that I hadn't taken any photos of where I was up to! Eeek!

So here are the last few blocks that I forgot to show you...

  Presents to share, an old wooden chair...


 ...and a heart to show my love for my family :)


Today wasn't a great day to take photos, and the wind was blowing my quilt top in ALL directions, but I managed a couple of shots...


...it's a BIG quilt when it's all together! I ended up pegging it to the back of the fence so you could see it all together.

So now I just have the quilting and binding to go, and I'm all finished. I'm planning to quilt this one myself, so fingers crossed I can fit it under my sewing machine :)  I'm hoping to come in right about on schedule...there's still a few weeks before the end of October :)

I'ts great seeing everyones progress...it seems that lots of stitching has been going on, just not so much show-and-tell (yep, I'm guilty).  Let's see what you've been up to girls!

TTFN
Susan (aka suzitee)
www.stitchscrapsew.blogspot.com

5 comments:

Chookyblue...... said...

lucky I cracked the whip.........about time you showed us your beautiful top........might still need to crack the whip to get this one quilted.........lol

Fiona said...

your quilt top looks fantastic... lovely fresh colours... good luck with the quilting....
Hugz

Anonymous said...

well done Susan,looks great.xx

Susan said...

it looks great - personally I'd rather not have to quilt it but then I don't want that whip near me!!

Pat said...

Your top looks great!