Fairhaven blocks...

named for a well known Victorian beach!

There were three of these to make this month.

And I knew before the templates even arrived that I 

was constructing them my way!

Making all those Chuck Nohara blocks taught me a 

lot about block construction.

There was no way I was cutting these weird shapes, 

even with the templates. 

And piecing all those curves!

So I made 3.5" HSTs...

laid out my orange peel shapes.....

joined some sections and used applique to finish 

them off!

So I have nine blocks now, and its time for another 

 group shot!

I believe the next round of blocks, five in all, can be 

machine pieced!

Yippee!

Happy days!

SUZ

A Friday Finish!

My "Rollercoaster" quilt has been finished for a 

couple of days now....

Quilted with Aurifil #1231

but today the sun came out for me to get some 

pretty photos!

I love everything about this quilt, despite it being 

started during a rather 'down' time of my life....

hence the Rollercoaster name!

I quilted it with a wavy line, 

which you can see quite clearly here...

  It's a little like the track a 

rollercoaster runs on!

I was thrilled to find the backing online,

at a bargain price!

The backing is "Sun-sational" by Maude Asbury

and the label is bordered with a precious scrap from 

a special friend!

I bound it with a white spotted black fabric.

The quilt finishes at approximately 54" X 72",

and is now living happily on the back on my sofa!

Linking up with:

Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday
Finish It Up Friday
Needle and Thread Thursday

Happy sewing!

SUZ

Gridster's Bee- June and July

For June, Mary asked for Confetti Stars...

made from this tutorial.

I have made this pattern before but didn't realise 

that when I'd printed it out, it was a little small!

But the pattern I'd traced was used for my own 

Gridster Sampler quilt blocks....

For July, Carol wanted a block to help her celebrate 

America's special day...

And I made a practice block first....

to become part of my sampler!

The very easy-to-follow tutorial can be found here.

And here are all my blocks together!

Happy sewing!

SUZ

Night and Day....

In the evenings,  I'm hand quilting this...

And in the day....

when time allows,

I'll be working on this!

Basted on tables for the first time!

Happy sewing!

SUZ

Delilah-a progress report

There has been little time for sewing in my life 

recently....

except for my Delilah blocks!

Even these have been made for a couple of weeks...

I tried to make one scrappier than the other....

in a hope to control the fussy nature of this quilt!

I have heard that there are many 'filler' blocks 

required.....

so tonight I got started on some 3.5" pinwheels!

I'm counting the days until our 3 week, mid-year 

break....

when I might just sew, and stitch and share!

Linking up with Sew, Stitch, Snap and Share.

Happy days!

SUZ

Scrappy Stepping Stones

I thought I'd do a follow-up of my latest quilt!

I found a photo of a scrappy quilt on Pinterest that 

sparked my interest, which lead me here.

But as there were no measurements, I worked out 

my own.

Maybe you'd like to make a Scrappy Stepping Stones 

quilt of your own....

I started with 2.5" squares,

making fifty 16-patch blocks...

I cut 49 white pieces from 1.3 metres of white, 

tone-on-tone fabric

and you need another 8 side pieces, of 4 squares 

each.

This will make a quilt that measures 68" by 72"

I may still put a white border around the outside....?

If you have any further questions please don't 

hesitate to add a comment to this blogpost!


Happy sewing!

SUZ

Simply New....

As promised I have started a new and simple 

patchwork project!

I started cutting out 2.5" squares from my scraps 

about eighteen months ago...

So I decided it was time to dive in and go for it....

making 16-patch blocks....

I need 50 of these for the plan I have...

an idea I saw on Pinterest...

And here it is waiting to be pieced together!

I hope to get it together this week sometime.....

(edited: a full tutorial can be found here )

Happy sewing!

SUZ

A finished cushion!

Happy sewing!

SUZ

Mastering the Curve...

I seem to have done a lot of curved piecing recently!

That is a sure fire way of improving at a skill...

#2 from Month 1

The second month of the "Delilah" BOM had more...

One rather scrappy,

and the other with fewer fabrics and 

a centre made from on whole fabric piece.

I'm happy to know that month 3 is much more 

straight forward,

well straight at least!

Group shot

And my New York Beauty quilt needed one last block

to make it up to the even two dozen.

I've decided to sash each block in black,

primarily to make it a bit more useable size.

For my next quilt,

I'm definitely making something simple next!

Happy sewing,

SUZ