Sadly nothing much happened around here the past month for various reasons. I did embroider a few more pieces of the crazy quilt handbags as well as another 4 blocks of this quilt.
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| Block 40 Cactus Pot |
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| Block 41 Goose tracks |
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| Block 42 Sister's Choice |
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| Block 43 Five Square |
Hopefully with me now on a two week break, I will be able to catch up with all the projects. But with 2 new books of Karen Kingsbury gifted to me by my daughter and the swimming pool calling, we'll see about that. 😊
I've been embroidering on these a few weeks. At this stage it is just puzzle pieces which will be stitched together to form 2 handbags, one in red tones and the other one in black and grey. Although I love BFC creations designs, these ones haven't grown on me yet. The crazy quilting part is fine, but the embroidery done on the various pieces is not up to their usual standard. If I had known this beforehand, I would have added other designs. But, the final product might surprise me when it's done.
I have been less productive the past few weeks as I changed from work and found it absolutely stressful. I have been working in the Roads Department of a local engineering company for most of the past 40 years but as things are falling apart quite rapidly in all of the State Owned Entities in South Africa, I could not pass up the opportunity to work from home for a UK company although it meant learning a new draughting program (Microstation) as well as changing to railways and all the electrical installations that goes with it. But by taking baby steps and utilizing Google as well as YouTube tutorials, it is getting better every day.
I did manage to finish another 4 blocks of this quilt though.
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| Block 36 Wishing Ring |
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| Block 37 Wild goose chase |
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| Block 38 Diamond grid |
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| Block 39 Fool's square |
Another 8 blocks finished and only 15 more to go.
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| Block 27 Easter Basket |
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| Block 28 Basket of flowers |
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| Block 29 Wild goose chase |
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| Block 30 Framed nine patch |
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| Block 31 Fruit basket |
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| Block 32 Cactus pot |
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| Block 33 Alaska homestead |
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| Block 35 Sister's choice |
I finally finished this quilt a few weeks ago. It is such a huge quilt that I just did straight stitching in grey for the quilting. Then I added diagonal lines as well and ended up with a diamond pattern. For the binding I used up the last of the bargello strips by just unpicking the previous stitching and sewing them together in one long strip.
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| My two companions whilst I'm stitching away laying on the hexagon quilt I finished earlier this year. |
Another 6 blocks finished and this quilt is halfway done.
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| Block 21 Little Basket |
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| Block 22 Oregon |
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| Block 23 Basket of grapes |
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| Block 24 Fool's square |
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| Block 25 Mother's day basket |
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| Block 26 diamond grid |
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| Block 16 Five Patch Chain |
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| Block 17 Fruit Basket |
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| Block 18 Wishing Ring |
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| Block 19 Mother's Day Basket |
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| Block 20 Framed 9 Patch |
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| Block 13 Wedding Ring |
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| Block 14 Little Basket |
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| Block 15 Duck and ducklings |
Another 4 blocks done.
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| Block 9 - Five Square |
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| Block 10 - Antique Flower Basket |
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| Block 11 - Alaska Homestead |
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| Block 12 - Flower Pot |
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Block 5 - Goose Tracks |
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| Block 6 Flower Pot |
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| Block 7 Propeller |
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| Block 8 May basket |
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| Block 2 - Easter Basket |
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| Block 3 - Five patch chain |
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| Block 4 - Hen and chicks |
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