Lots of Beautiful Blues.

It has been a month filled with lots of rain, heat, sunshine and blue skies. Sewing happened inbetween gardening and spending time with love ones.

Finding the way got a lot of blues for RSC24.

The next step is to trim them to size and get rid of all the dog ears.

The Oh Deer quilt is done!

The binding was sewn down on the back by hand, it was leftover binding from Vintage Moments quilt.

The back of this baby quilt.

Winnie the Pooh baby quilt has been started. First up the fabric is being cut and fresh pieces of green and white squares added where all the grey blocks was in the original piece of fabric.

They will be added above and below the hundred acre wood fabric, once that has been framed with the same green and white fabric.

Once this is done, the two border fabrics will be added. One cream and the other a crackle oyster colour fabric with a green tinge.

Keeping cool during the heat dome.

What did we do this past week? Keeping cool and tried not to do much about anything. It was the sensible thing to do, relax and if we needed to do anything it was done some days before six am.

The Winnie the Pooh fabric arrived. Will be cutting this up and adding more green where the grey blocks are in the design currently.

The hundred acre wood fabric will be used as a center piece.

A lazy week it has been, we have had rain, heat, thunderstorms one following the other in a playlist loop. Second week walking Milo, his take on walkies in the heat. He wanted to enjoy a little sunbathing on the grass!

Will be doing a bit of stitching again today. The Serengeti has got a few more colours. It has beads in the open area and braid work.

Today a little bit more stitching will happen on the rope design which is part of the frame. On the pattern this is done in white, switched it out for a variegated blue, white and grey colour.

Oh Deer.

The machine quilting done on the baby quilt with the deer and wildlife.

The back of this little quilt.

The binding is sewn on, used some leftover binding. It needs to be turned over and sewn down by hand.

The otter quilt has the binding on and is just waiting for a label.

The first of two Tilda Birthday quilts is now ready for the bees, name and date. All of this got done before the heat dome arrived.

We now have Peter Rabbit living in our back garden, so we had to bunny proof the beans. He has a love for beans, who knew.

Slowing down now.

It has been a busy six weeks, now I can finally just relax. All the baby quilts are made, one needs the binding sewn down still. Knowing how hot summer can be, it needed to be done before the heat arrives. This upcoming week will be very hot, so glad this is done.

Now it will be back to ongoing older projects, which will include embroidery, stitching and trimming blocks to size for Finding the Way colour challenge quilt.

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads in our lives!

Quilting and appliqué continue.

The otter quilt is getting a bit more quilting every day.

This is the back, showing the blocking before the outline of the elements.

Quilting around some parts and removing as many of the pins as possible. Anchoring down the piece in equal parts, grass and the sky. The pond, rocks above and below the water. It helps with the quilting to keep the layers from moving about.

The true background colour is a beautiful purple, yet on some photographs it shows a washed out grey colour. Above is the applique pices fused and then blanket stitched by machine in place. This is part of the top and bottom pieces which will need to be added to the center applique panel. Before this can happen the name, date and the bees needs to be added. Next week we have another heatwave, so we will enjoy the weekend with the more balanced weather without the extreme heat.

June is slowly coming together.

The one birthday quilt center is all machine appliqued. the top and bottom two sections will be done next and added to the center piece.

From the left,

the middle,

the right of this large piece.

The deer and wildlife panel is pin basted ready for machine quilting.

The otter quilt got some machine quilting, have done some blocking and have started on some of the water and waves.

Birthday quilts.

They got a bit more work on them. The green stems got stitched in place, next up placing the applique pieces and fusing them in place.

The flowers, leaves and buds now have been audition and placed where they will be appliqued in place.

The machine blanket stitching has a start, some leaves, flowers and bunting.

The dinosaur quilt has its binding sewn on, still needs to be washed and the label added to the back of the quilt.

The next quilt is basted, ready for machine quilting. It is the otter family in the wetlands quilt. Lots of blues in this one.