Peter Rabbit.

Peter Rabbit baby quilt has left and is on its way to its forever home. My niece is having a baby boy in the spring, she loves Peter Rabbit!

Have been paper piecing the box of red and white triangle squares, it is a bit every other day, so it is slow going.

Finding the way pink blocks got done as well, also hand quilting of the mystery quilt.

Two more sides to go and the quilting on this one will be done.

Back and front.

We had freezing rain, ice pellets, rain and snow overnight. It is cold and slippery outside.

A milestone.

The four corners for the Hertfordshire quilt is done.

Now the diamond and triangle pieces for the sides will be worked on each month, these cornerstones is the foundation for these diamond borders. Above the pink diamond and the yellow triangle shows a part of this pattern.

Hertfordshire corner blocks.

The four corners for the diamond borders has many pieces, cut them out earlier this week. This is the top of the corner piece.

Prepping the pieces as I go along, sewing the sections for all four and making them first, then adding the next part, will continue this process until the four corners are finished.

Once the corners is done, it is only the diamond sections in between which only has two pieces a diamond and a triangle. It may be slow but it is the fastest way to do these corners.

Books.

A love of books is something which we have had from a young age. Going to boarding school young, having strict routines. Within those parameters we had specific times to do homework, if you finished yours quickly it meant time to read. The only books available in the homework room was Brittanica Encyclopedia, the whole collection! So reading my way through them was a natural outcome. It was fun and I could explore anything and everywhere, we were told to learn from books. The funny thing was, if we wanted to know how to do a craft or anything else we used books and taught ourselves. Our kids was taught the same thing by us, our daughter in law was blown away by this fact. Her family did things differently. So yesterday a belated Christmas present arrived and down a rabbit hole I went, into a world of words and pictures. The book are in both French and English, so I read the English part, then repeat the French part. Over time it will hopefully improve my Language skill in French?

What fun it was, very little sewing happened and a lot of just exploring of fabric and the art of a craft whiich I am passionate about. It is filled with a journey of the lives of a family and a country with quilting in the modern era, after 1970 in France. To touch on quilting prior to this, would open a vast world from a rich part of quilting in France.
(Do I have an amazing book on that, oh my and she is a beauty)!

Some of the projects in the book, it has a lot of photos which accompany each and every story and project. At the end of a rainy day it was put aside to thumb through again and dream of creating with needle and thread.

Sorting out EPP.

This is a collection of diamonds for the next round of the Hertfordshire quilt sorted into colour groups.

The corner pieces have all these intricate puzzle to assemble it, so each shape now has the fabric cut and it was all placed in little bags to work on slowly.

Progress indeed, spending time handquilting the jeopardy quilt. Finished the fourth side and have started the crosshatching of the lines crossing the opposite direction.

Star blocks.

Ancient star blocks are done for February. Made nine more Ohio star blocks, will need 96 in total for the quilt.

The triangle borders have some blocks done and sen together as well.

The sawtooth stars, 49 of these are needed for the quilt.

The next round of the Hertfordshire quilt has diamonds cut in a rainbow of colours, they will be EPP. Starting with the pink ones this month. Just doing a few each month.

Turned the corner.

The quilting is cross hatching and it is done in one direction first. The back shows the quiltinga lot better, than the front. Found the binding, that was missing for a while. It was placed with another quilt.

Once this side is done, will change direction and do the other direction.

Quilting continue on the mystery quilt, a lot of this quilting happened while watching Jeopardy and now also other shows on tv. With the extreme cold, it is the perfect past time. Staying indoors, warm and safe.

Playing with pinks.

Found a half yard cut of this fabric, it is now cut into squares and more.

Pinks from the layer cake to make diamonds for the EPP.

The star and triangle square blocks all cut out and can be sewn next.

Once they are done, will move on to a round of the Tahoe quilt which has pink in it.