Easter

It is early this year.... With it comes a busy time for all.  The farmers have baby animals arriving and a few friends will be welcoming babies to the families.  Nora made a growth chart for a little boy.

 
 She decided to quilt it with a running stitch and add some fun beads and sparkly bits.

It came out beautiful.

The Hertfordshire Quilt:

The corner blocks.

Two of the diamond strips, sewn to the center block.

The third side is done, one more to go. Also made the four corner blocks, ready for when the fourth side is made.

Almost.....

Peace.

Spring is officially here.
Baby blankets:

This is what happens when night time arrives, while watching television.
The Hertfordshire Quilt:

Finished the another side panel for this round.

Finding the Way Quilt:

 Lots of trimming of squares....

 Many more to go....

A collection of the squares were cut from these Swe-Swe fabrics.

365 Challenge from 2016:

 Corner Blocks.

 They needed to be sewn, before the rest of the blocks.

Lots of pieces and directions, including very mirror images.

 All of the blocks together.

Is it warm enough yet? Our cat has serious cabin fever.  The birds have returned and if one mention the word chippie, aka for chipmunk, then she is bashing her head against the glass in the door!

Good thing Spring is here, the little red squirrel is down to his last nut...

To Grandma Kate and Finn, get better soon.

Tug of war, where is Spring?

We are ready for Spring, except Old Man Winter just do not want to go away just yet. It has been snowing all day, glad it is melting on contact, so no shoveling to do, yet.

The Hertfordshire Quilt

One border is done, three more to go.

Finding the Way: Foundation Piecing.

 The diamond border around the center, created a foundation pattern for piecing this round.

Sewing through the paper and then trimming all the fabric to the correct size.( Once this is done, the paper is removed and the rectangles sewn together).

 Two sides sewn on to the center diamond.

 All the excess fabric trimmed up to this point. Ready to add the last two corner pieces.

 The stitch length on the machine is set quite tight, this helps to remove the paper easy.

 From the front before trimming the excess fabric.

 Lining up the ruler before trimming.

 Once the fabric is trimmed on the border

 The front will look like this.

 Next step is to trim the excess fabric away, underneath the corner triangle.

To do this, make sure to fold the cream fabric and the paper out of the way, then trim. 

 This removes the bulk of the fabric. Creating a neat and tidy block.

This is what it will look like.

 A finished block.

 Removing the paper, just fold back to the stitched seam, then  peel the paper of.

 Starting on the outside and working towards the center.

 The back and the front, with all the paper removed, ready to be used.

Linen and Threads 2018 stitch-a-long.

 Diane is working on this one, it is looking amazing!

She recommended a different needle for stitching, a tapestry needle, it worked.

This is my progress so far.

Finding the Way: The Center.

The center square of the quilt, it has a mitered borders.  This piece of brown fabric is very apt, it takes a village...

All the diamonds are made, next step sewing them into border strips and adding them to the center medallion above.

Diamond strip borders all sewn.

Border strips ready for the next step.

Borders with corner blocks attached to the center medallion. This is the center for the wedding quilt.

Get better soon, Lynn!

Quilts in progress.

On monday this is what the stream looked like, the water is moving and the ice is melting.  It was sunny, but chilly outside.  Then the weather report came along, white fluffy stuff is coming again. It is time for the next round of snow, tiny little flakes are falling at the moment.
Finding the Way

The triangle squares, drawing the lines from corner to corner.

Then creating the pairs.  Placing one cream square on top of a coloured square.

Sewing a quarter of an inch on either side of the line and cutting on this drawn line, once the sewing is done.  This then creates two squares, made up out of two triangles each.  This is a good way to sew, without having to worry about the bias edges of the triangles.

 Trimming the squares, making sure they are all the same size.

The rest of the squares awaiting their turn for trimming.

The Hertfordshire Quilt

The diamond border is next.  English Paper Piecing this border.

Using Clover clips, to keep everything together, no need to pin.

Baby blanket

Quite a number of friends will become grandparents this year, so the wool will be knitted into baby blankets.