A Finish!

I finished sewing down the binding on Sunbonnet Sue last night, and whipped up a label for it this morning. The itty bitty Sue on the Label is just about 4" tall.

Weekend Update

Yesterday was the annual "Talbot Trail of Yard Sales". This year we headed east, and here are some of my treasures. First, I bought some vintage aprons, which will be cut up for quilts. No need to get reproduction fabrics when you have the real thing!
Black & white enamelware bowl, a cross-stitched picture, a tea cup with tartan and Scottish thistles (Carol, I'll serve you tea in this one someday soon!), Ikea lamp, a small sewing basket, a McCoy bowl (matches my studio paint!) a cute plate with Scottie dog painted on it, a "Pansy" book from 1903, small table cloth (all four corners are stitched with the same scene, vintage needlebook and sewing kits...and underneath it all? Six yards of a nice neutral cotton print. This will make a nice quilt backing.
The verse on this piece of cross-stitch "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." is from Robert Louis Stevenson.

I've been working away on the Buttons & Bows quilt top. It's coming together. Oh! and I have about four feet of binding left to stitch on Sunbonnet Sue. It still needs a label, but it will soon be complete!

What's on the Wall NOW?

Gibson carefully supervises the application of the binding to Sunbonnet Sue. The hand stitching is yet to be done, but I'm saving that for Sunday morning on the back porch, listening to my favourite radio program.

So here's the next project. I started it in February while I was at a retreat, but when I got this far, I realized all the patterns had to be enlarged. DANG! I took care of that little chore, so now I'm ready to add the embroidery, applique, and embellishments to this quilt top.The pattern came from an older issue of Australian Patchwork & Quilting vol 13 no 9. Here's a photo of the finished quilt.

Sunbonnet Progress

I've got the front together, and I'm struggling with the back. In theory...I could be putting the binding on by tomorrow! Just 3 1/2 more horizontal seams. Then, onto the next UFO!

This is probably one of the strangest looking quilts I've ever made, but I like that I created the whole thing using Repro 30's & 40's stash that I'd already had on hand, plus scraps of batting. I hate to admit, I had to buy thread yesterday - - I've been using so much this past week!

Quilting Night in Canada

Quilty friend Gail and I got together last night for some quilting. It was just the three of us - me, Gail, and THE CAT!

I finished up the second step of the Bonnie Hunter Christmas Lights mytery. We put the blocks up on the design wall to see if we could reckon how the final assembly would look. Here's what we came up with; I wonder if we got it even close??

Gibson was eager to be helpful to both of us. Here, he's holding the fabric steady for Gail, while she cuts out the pieces for a baby quilt. Gail very nearly saved me the cost of neutering Gibson, he was just so enthusiastic about helping her!

Next, I worked on my Sunbonnet Sue blocks.

This is as far as I had gotten last night - - but it's much closer to completion this morning.

I stumbled upon an interesting find at the Goodwill yesterday. There has recently been a lengthy discussion about quilting fiction on the Stashbuster group. (I've assembled quite a reading list, thanks to that discussion!) This, however was not one of the books mentioned:

The author of this book is a member of the London Friendship Quilters Guild --I was a member in'07-'08--and I was aware that Barb Attard was a writer, but I had no idea that she had written quilting fiction! I was surprised and pleased to find a copy of "Flying Geese" on the shelf at Goodwill for 99¢.