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, April 14, 2015

April's progression...

Almost finished April...love the applique...not so much the button-hole stitching.  I find it a bit tricky getting it even and not all slanted and uneven.  What is the secret to getting these stitches even and straight? 
I enjoy seeing everyone's blocks with all the different fabric/color variations.  My hat goes off to those who have really stepped outside of the box and done a completely different color scheme.
Love them all.  It will be quite a show when they are all done.  Happy Stitching Ladies!
I think the square is from May's assignment but here is what happened...I stitched all the circles, big and small for March then decided I would place all my blocks on my design board to make sure I had the backgrounds evenly distributed...and they were a bit lop-sided.  So the block that needs my little circle (fleur-de-lis) calls for a square...hence the square is being done in April versus May.  Well that's my story and I'm stickin' to it! LOL 

2 comments:

Susan said...

Holly, quite understandable - I totally messed up the small circle vs square issue last month....I'll try to even it out but in the scheme of things I don't think it's going to matter much... I even had an April big block in with my March blocks - sssh don't tell the boss!!

Chookyblue...... said...

Good to see some progress.........and yes I did get a little mixed up when preping quite a few blocks at once............easily done.......