The third Friday of the month meant it was Friday Night Sew In with Wendy of Sugarlane Designs and the crew of FNSI crafters.
I spent my evening working on the hand quilting of my Island Batik Lone Star quilt and watching Home Alone with the family. The movie was fun, as always, but the quilt is coming along slowly.
I usually mark out straight lines with a hera marker as it leaves a great crease to follow along with. But as I've been doing most of this hand sewing in the evenings, the creased lines weren't very visible in this dark purple fabric, so I've changed to using my white pencil in the sewline tool.
It seems to work quite well and brushes of easily, so I'll keep using it on the dark fabrics.
I will share my finished Lone Star quilt later in the week, so I'd better get to it and stitch, stitch, stitch.
A quick little picture of mum's hydrangeas. They always begin flowering just before her birthday in early December and last a few weeks. A lovely gift she left for us.
I can't seem to grow hydrangeas at my house. They don't thrive whatsoever so when I was over visiting dad the other day and saw them, I helped myself to a few blooms.
I have just started using that marking pencil too. My mum had beautiful hydrangeas growing. I also did in my old house but as yet have not been successful here. Maybe one day.
ReplyDeleteThe hydrangeas are a wonderful gift your mother left. I'm sure you think of her every time you see them. The sewline white marker works very well on dark fabrics. Happy stitching!
ReplyDeleteI use the white mechanical pencil on dark fabrics and love it - I've never tried to use the herra marker - I guess because of hand quilting it just doesn't work well for me as the quilt is on the frame and has nothing stable underneath it to press hard on to leave marks.
ReplyDeleteYou have very even hand quilting. A lovely reminder of your dear mother.
ReplyDeleteHydrangeas are always so lovely and I do like a white pencil for marking on dark fabrics. xx
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to seeing this one. I have enjoyed the other lonestar projects by the island batik ambassadors.
ReplyDeleteThe quilting is coming on, I do love hydrangeas, mine only has little flowers this year, I think it dried out when we were away...
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Your quilt looks great, I love hydrangeas but hubby doesn't
ReplyDeleteYour quilting is coming along nicely. Pretty flowers. I like the blue ones too. Something has to be added to the soil to get a different colour.
ReplyDeleteYour hand quilting is always so beautiful. I no longer use batiks in my quiltmaking, so I'm curious to know whether you think it's more difficult to quilt through. I'm asking because, long ago, a friend wasn't able to domestic machine quilt through a batik quilt because of the density of the fabric. Her machine kept skipping stitches. Also, I'm curious about that white pencil which doesn't look familiar to me. Looks like it makes a nice clear line... and it brushes out? That's great! I'm only familiar with a Chalk-o-liner. Is the one you use a finer line than that? Keeping enjoying your handwork!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful way to remember dear Mom. My mother also has a way with her hydrangeas. My bushes grow just fine but no blooms. Rats! Good way to watch Christmas movies with a quilt in your lap. Merry Christmas!
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