I joined Cheryll and the girls for Friday Night with Friends and managed to get some more Propeller Quilt blocks stitched up. I have a nice pile of them now, growing quite well. These are all made using only scraps. I think I need to dig into my red and green scrap tubs as I don't think I've used many pieces from those yet.
She chose to use a Ruby Star Woodland Park charm pack for her pieces and it's looking very modern with fun colour and print combinations. I'll take a photo next time, with her progress.
Our class project is the Dreamweaver Quilt project (pattern by Michelle McKillop) and a fair few people have decided to work on that quilt over the next few months. Everyone is at different stages and I set everyone homework to get the quilt back finished. Let's see how everyone progresses with that when we catch up again next time.
I came home to an almost empty house - husband at work and teenagers were out, doing teenager things on a Saturday night. I sat down with my doggies near me, turned on my audiobook and worked on my Sashiko project. It's tricky to see the progress on the front, but the back shows the progress (and my naughty naughty knotted threads).
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The audiobook I have been listening to over the past week-ish was Homecoming by Kate Morton. It was over 17 hours long and I listened to it in the car and when in my sewing room. I enjoyed the story immensely and it certainly didn't feel like I listened to it for that long.
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of the grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia.
Sixty years later, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for almost twenty years, she now finds herself laid off from her full-time job and struggling to make ends meet. A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney...
An epic novel that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, and how we protect the lies we tell. It explores the power of motherhood, the corrosive effects of tightly held secrets, and the healing nature of truth.
I won't tell you about the story but I can say that I didn't pick the ending.
If you haven't yet, you can sign up for a free trial of Audible to listen to some great audiobooks.
Audiobooks are perfect for listening to when sewing. Being transported away to another world while doing some slow stitching is one of my favourite things to do. I alternate between using Audible and listening to books through my free library apps.
Today's slow stitching involved some needle turn applique. A few years ago, I made a quilt called "Breeze on Lee" which was created for and published in Homespun Magazine.
I had saved the centre cut-outs from the applique pieces and found them this week when I was doing a little bit of tidying. My coasters have been looking the worse for wear so I'd been thinking that I needed to make some new ones. I needle-turn appliqued the prints to some scrap charm squares (which I also found in my tidying up this week).
I added a layer of batting, a backing and turned them out to make a little set of coasters. I'm quite pleased with how they turned out and already have one in use, holding a cup of tea as I type.
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Oh your Sashiko project is gorgeous. Beautiful stitches!!!
ReplyDeleteYour projects are great. Love to see progress on your Sashiko and the coasters are wonderful. Love seeing what you are up to.
ReplyDeleteI love Breeze on Lee. It looks like a simple-enough design to really enjoy sewing. Your sashiko looks great! Your stitches are the same size on both the front & back. Good job. See you next month.
ReplyDeleteYou did a lot of hand stitching g this week! The propellers are so colourful with so many fun scraps. I have a sashiko project that is stitched but I’ve never made it into anything. Time to figure that out. I love seeing your quilts and stitching. Glad your class went well. Gail at the cozy quilter
ReplyDeleteYour collection of Propeller blocks are coming along nicely! Like you, after I arranged my Inner City blocks, I saw color gaps. I need reds, a color in limited supply in my stash. I find it very interesting how you teach at your local shop... and how most Australians learn quiltmaking. Here, when making an item we teach everyone the same thing, in the same way. Or when teaching a technique, everyone makes the same thing. I can't imagine how challenging it must be, as in instructor, to monitor different items every student is making.
ReplyDeleteYour Sashiko is looking great too, by the way. As for listening to "Homecoming," I'm cheap, and use only the two library apps I have access to (Boundless and Hoopla) to listen to all my books. Unfortunately, "Homecoming" isn't available as an audiobook; only as an ebook. I have enjoyed all the Kate Morton books I've read (listened to), so I hope this one become available to me someday.
Great projects! I love your Shashiko!
ReplyDeleteYour propellor blocks are very colorful. I love the Shashiko. Enjoy your stitching.
ReplyDeleteLove the propellor blocks, so cute. Lovely coasters & your sashiko is looking good.
ReplyDeleteYour propeller blocks look great. I loved Homecoming but I read it the old fashioned way.. haha
ReplyDeleteThe weekends do fly by, but then, I'm finding every day flies by quicker than quick these days. Your propeller blocks are delightful and colourful. Your Sashiko is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI love your propellors - such lovely bright fabrics, and the coasters too. The sashiko is looing so neat, beautiful. xx
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