The Treehouse

One Flower Wednesday with Harvest Home

I've cut into the jellyroll :o This jellyroll made a very lovely ornament on my shelf however, after some 2 years of sitting there I thought it was finally time for it to look pretty somewhere else...i.e. on our bed! I ran up my Inklingo 1" hexagon pdf yesterday and got some printing done. This morning I've sat and worked out what other fabric I need to get in addition to the jellyroll. I've settled on the blue shade after a lot fiddling about and am just now waiting to hear if there is sufficient available - I hope so because I'm not big on decision making, particularly where fabric buying is concerned and it takes me a very long time to make a final choice! 

Here is today's flower - I actually made it last night. I took my printed hexagons along to Matthew's cricket match with the intention of sitting and cutting them out. Well, I not only cut them out, I sewed together my flower. Hoping to get more printing done today and make a start on the next flower tonight - I'm looking forward to some relaxing stitching after the stress of having to plan and decision make this morning! :grin:

 

 

Saturday Klosjes

I can't resist this pretty fabric - it's Garden Song by Nancy Halvorsen. I first came across when I was looking for fabric for Karen's birthday bag and couldn't resist getting some for myself with the intention of using my Inklingo Dresden Plate shapes on it - I'm still going to do that but am using the scraps for Klosjes. I cut out lots of shapes today that I had printed off using Inklingo yesterday and managed to get two sewn up as well. Here they are posing with the 'just about to bloom' lilac in the garden.

 

We cropped today, well - I sewed...everybody else cropped! and I had drawn Karen in our birthday swap. I made this bag for her in the blues from Garden Song.

   

It almost didn't make it to the wrapping stage...I rather fell in love with it and I think Karen likes it too :) Happy Birthday Karen!

 
 

 

Decisions, decisions...

  I mulled it over and decided that now was the time to cut into my lovely Blackbird Designs Harvest Home jellyroll. At 2.5" wide, I think the strips are a good size for some 1" hexagons. I'm itching to start printing them off ready for next week but I have a few other things to finish off first of all.

I've been trying to decide which fabric to use for the Klosjes this morning. I have a Rouenneries charm pack that I could make use of but might go with an assortment of pinks/browns that currently live in a wicker basket on my shelf - they look very pretty there but I'm sure they'd look even better made into a quilt!

I have a few more flowers ready to sew in the same colours as yesterday and intend those to become a little table runner for Catherine's dressing table so I will continue stitching those as well.

Somebody decided that I needed a little help this morning while I was away making a cup of tea!

 

Actually, I'm not so sure about the help - looks more like she's having a snooze to me!

 

One Flower Wednesday

 I love hand sewing and I've been trying to resist but...resistance is futile! I kept happening across little Gardens growing on blogs and the need to grow my own Garden was irresistable. I had promised myself to finish off my Tail Feathers quilt before starting a new quilt...these are only tiny though and they're super quick to make with a cup of coffee so I think they can almost be overlooked as an altogether new project :) Here's my one flower for this Wednesday - would have been more but my preparation time went out of the window yesterday when school phoned to tell me that Matthew was poorly...one nasty 24 hour tummy bug later and he's back running around again I'm glad to say.

 

1/2" hexagons made the Inklingo way

Now to figure out my get out clause for starting on some Klosjes...I've been eyeing those up for ages. I think the reasoning is the same as for the Garden...they're small, they're a cup of coffee's worth of stitching and they're fun!

p.s I went out into the sunny garden to take a photo of my flower only to find my camera battery was flat...hence the rather uninteresting scanned pic for this week!

 

Patchwork of the Crosses #1

I've finished my first POTC block - I like it! When I first bought an Inklingo collection I had no intentions of hand stitching at all, everything was going to be done on my machine. That seems to have changed somewhat now and I've become rather addicted to hand stitching blocks! The pretty fabric at the centre is some that I got on my birthday trip out - this was my first attempt at fussy cutting with the printer - it's not absolutely perfect but I'm happy with the result. Going to print out some more more hexagons tonight - I've already started block 2! 

That's one of this week's goals completed. The other was to finish a Bluebird block that I started a little while ago...and I've thought of a few more since then!

1. Print hexagons

2. Finish Bluebird block (some serious effort required)

3. Finish off cardigan (not much left to do)

4. Make this week's DJ block (freezer paper is on the fabric, just needs cutting out)

Not sure that all that is do-able but I've not got an all consuming read on the go at the moment so it just might be.

 

Arent' they pretty? I looked at them for months before caving in and getting the download and I am so glad that I did.

E2 - Merry May

completed last night - all hand pieced and hand appliqued. Just getting a few more bits ready now for another sewing session tonight :D