Cutting the mount

for the Poppy Lady

with a most useful ruler

and the cutter

Ready to go in the frame as per the earlier post.

An Act of Remembrance 100 years

There is something both hopeful and melancholy,  timeless yet, "of that time" about this piece that drew me to it for this centenary remembrance day.

There are few that have not some connection to someone from either of the world wars or the conflicts between and after them.   Those who fought, those who waited, those who mourned.  Those who died, those who were damaged outside and in, those who survived and those who could live their lives as they would due to others sacrifice.

This is a picture of my paternal grandfather,  a boy soldier. 

He came home from World War One.

This is my maternal grandfather in his Home Guard uniform, he was eight at the start of World War One, he as his father before him was a miner. 

Great Uncles, cousins, aunts, uncles, all with stories.  Some they never would tell.

We owe them so much. 

On the 100th eleventh hour, of the eleventh day of the eleventh month I will be participating in the remembrance parade in my home town.  A remembrance of all that was given and of the responsibility that lies with those of us who remain.  

Halloween Trick or Treat Blog hopp 2018

Here we are again...spooky how time flies.

And speaking of spooky flying here is my 2018 Halloween stitch.

Now for your letter, wouldn't want you to go batty waiting for it

F

Then on to your next stop

twododo

Have fun and I will see you again next year (if not sooner I hope)

(oh and if you did not start at the beginning pop on over to Serendipitous Stitching , there is a link on the right.

Quaker Sheep

I have posted about two projects so far made with material gifted from another quilter doggy-bag and playing-cat-and-mouse.

A new work colleague with whom I share this hobbie and who shares stashletts, eggs and stories of mad chickens, grumpy pregnant sheep and stroppy horses.

So what do you make for a fellow quilter who keeps sheep?

Well in this case a cross stitch sheep.  

With a hint of  quilt?

Quaker Sheep.

Quaker Sheep

The original pattern called for the whole sheep to be in the same shade of oatmeal.

Once I had chosen the material I decided that the "quilt" section needed some colour. 

It is not my usual style, however I rather like the look of this chunky sheep on its spindly little legs.

Happily so did Nikita.

Oh my

that was quite a roll whilst it lasted. Lots of progress on this project before I ran out of steam this time around.

I have a bit of pyrography to do so this will have a rest.  Additionally the Halloween Blog hop is on the horizon so some bits and bobs to keep me busy till the mood strikes for this one again.

Logcabin variations duvet cover number three

On this one I again played about with the triangles on the graph paper.

The pale peach is a bit thin and the seams show through in this picture however, they don't do that when the duvet is inside.
































I like the layout and the way the colours in the patterned material works with the solids.

Logcabin variation duvet covers 2

Still using logcabin I was a bit puzzled what to do for another cover still on the four by five layout.

Graph paper is ever the quilters friend and I played around with triangles as a general idea how the finished blocks would come together and came up with this.

It coordinated with another set of bedding and again used up the available material.

Conference stitching..project update.

All the stitches worked today were tweeding.

I could look at this and see all the empty space that still needs to be filled.

But no!

I am looking at it and I can see the progress for today.

With the building stitches for more progress next time it comes out.

I have something to finish for November first.

Then I hope to have a bit more focus on this.

Logcabin variation duvet cover 1

In mini-mint.l I shared a patchwork cover made for a small duvet.  It was not the first cover made for that particular duvet.

Previous covers were made with my go to pattern of the time, logcabin. The size required some rethinking.  The normal sizes I had worked with allowed for even numbers of squares, generally four by six for the lap size.

The duvet was four by five.

For the first variation I went with a diagonal stripe arrangement. 

Logcabin duvet cover

A lot of the books I have seen since completing  my first logcabin recommend small prints or solids.  I have rather delighted in using large patterns and seeing how the slices of colour reform as the log cabin forms.

In this instance using two colourways of the same material, one with more orange tones and the other more purple. I like the way this came out.

Close ups of the sliced up material resewn.

Chorley Postage Stamp Quilt

There is a reason I think of this as a Chorley quilt, it is not a style related to that town nor did I make it there.

However, it is where the material came from.  Not from a quilt shop, not even directly from a fabric shop.

No it came out of a skip, a skip in front of a curtain shop.  They had been refitting and had thrown into the skip several pattern books.

I have mentioned this find before in relation to the second quilt I made from this fabric source hidden-star-hidden-beauty  I asked permission and I took as many of the sample books as my Dad and I could carry.  My Dad did suggest driving back to get them all, I declined, there are times I wish I had not but as I still have fabric to use it was perhaps a good choice.

The beauty of a sample book is the various colour ways of the same pattern and also the same colour palette for differing patterns.  I chose for this project to randomly cut strips from the various materials in the sampler book.  Sew the strips together, then cut them into strips (of squares) and join them into blocks.

I will admit that when working the blocks I was a little less random and did make some choices of which strips to use together as I went.

I remain quite happy with the result of the lightweight quilt.  The quilting pattern on it is the closest I have come to a dresden plate so far (there is one ahead in the sampler quilt).

 Here is a closer picture of the squares that make up the quilt.

And the quilting on as viewed from the back