Wednesday workings - LE

I thought I had better get a wriggle on and start part 3 of the lovely L.E BOM.


                                                          Un-ironed, looks dreadful lol















This is such a pleasure to work on, I love the shapes and colours.

I have also been putting together a small wall quilt for my gorgeous daughter, Vanessa's bedroom.

















I used the "Scrapped" blocks from my first attempt at the Morrell Quilt.
Don't ask me why I didn't like them, I like them just fine now ;)
Any who, I think they look lovely and quite Victorian in this little quilt.

I have been stealing stitches on Miss Matty's Parlour every chance I get. I'm onto stitching the second round, which is pink. It is coming along nicely and is really great fun to put together. I hope to be able to post more pics in the next few days.

That's it from me.

Keep on stitching,
Kel.





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L.E Update and New Quilts !

It's been nearly two weeks since i last posted. I have been sick with what i thought was glandular fever, but i think it was just some chesty virus. I am feeling alot better now though hence the new post !   :)

I appliqued the gorgeous little petal flowers on the L.E quilt. They were Hard !

To get those points to all line up was maddening. I managed to achieve a level of acceptability and am now moving on to piecing the borders English Style.

Its already looking so pretty, i cant wait to add those lovely vases full of blooms!

Am keeping the border scrappy and going with the light dark contrast.

 I'm really loving this quilt and cant wait till the 15th :)

Alot of ladies are doing the Mrs Beasley's Sampler. It is a hard one to resist so i bought a copy of Vignette number 10 and away we went.

Leanne's version is lovely

 I love embroidery and i do have a few quilts with predominantly embroidered blocks. However i love applique more, lol, and decided to try my hand at this pattern substituting the embroidered bits for applique.

Block 1 complete, all sewn together.

Moving on.....

It is my birthday on the 21st of this month and my lovely, caring parents bought me 3 new patterns !!!

Behold......

Worthing downs is an inspired take on the sundial coverlet by Megan Carroll

Isnt it amazing looking. I cant wait to start this one.

Miss Matty's Parlour is another beauty inspired by the Frederica Josephsons quilt, also by Megan Carroll.

I have made a start on the centre of this one (naughty aren't i )

As soon as i can find some suitable background fabric i think i might add a block or two of the brides quilt to my growing to do list as well.

I finally finished off the Sunburst Star block from my Daughters Morrell Quilt.

Pheeew. 

This one was hard and I'm not overly happy with the outer points, but too bad I'm not redoing this one  :)

Thats it from me.

Keep on Stitching,

Kel.

Love Entwined and More

I have been very busy trying to get other stitching done before the next LE block came out. I think i did pretty well. I managed to get some Phebe things done for my daughters version and my own, as well as a little more done on the Sunburst Star block for the Morrell Quilt.

Nearly there.

This is arduous as there are so many pieces and hand piecing takes me a long time, but it looks great so its worth it.

DD's Phebe

Everything's coming together nicely now and DD is happy with it so thats all that matters !

My Phebe

 My Phebe is coming along as well and I'm really happy with it too.

Its "officially" A Phebe now thanks to LuAnn over at 

http://www.luannsloosethreads.blogspot.com.au/

She kindly provided me with the Original Fabric for the dress and top!

THANKS LuAnn :)

I Couldn't resist a little Broderie Perse flower.

I also took extra shots of how i Turn my edges ready to applique

All you need is some freezer paper A quilting pin and some Elmers Glue or other washable quilting glue.

Start off by cutting your pattern out of freezer paper no seam allowance added

Iron your freezer paper onto the right side of your fabric. The freezer paper acts as a guide to our turn line instead of drawing on it. It also adds stability and makes turning the edge easy.
Cut your fabric with a very scant 1/4 " seam allowance. I prefer 3/16 but thats because I'm used to smaller allowances and I'm "Tight" with my fabric lol

Whenever you have a tip or point to turn always do this first. Pop the glue on the tip and turn it down, so it just shows the paper underneath as in the pic above. Sometimes to get the right point you have to turn it down even further.

Glue the bottom curved edge

Using your quilting pin and first (pointer) finger to turn the edge slowly and in little increments not big bits.
Slow and small wins the race.

Glue down one side of triangle. Please excuse my edge. I cut a little too deeply but I'm a fabric miser so i made do anyway 

Start at the bottom curved edge and work your way up to the tip. 

Glue down the other side but this time work from the tip down.

You should end up with a nice neat tip.

Finished Triangle neatly glued and all ready to applique.
I then take my glued pieces and use "Roxanne's Glue Baste It" to baste them in place on my quilt.

I used the same technique for the small leaves that go in between the triangle border.

Now that i have finished the Compass and her borders I'm going to move onto the petal flowers and the Parallelogram borders. 

I wont be adding the borders until i have finished appliqueing all of the centre as i don't want it to bubble and not sit flat. So, I'm going to English Piece the borders and save them for later.

I have printed the template out on freezer paper and then ironed another sheet of freezer paper onto that so it is two layers thick. This will be sufficiently thick to use for english paper piecing.

I will be able to iron it onto the fabric as well. Bonus !

And i think that'll do  :)

Keep on Stitching,

Kel.