Working On and a Give Away!

I started cleaning up my sewing room on Saturday. This might have been a big mistake because right now it's messier than when I started. Anyway..

I came across the box that was holding all my yo-yo's and decided I might work on it for a little while. Last time I spoke of them, I had them sitting on my coffee table. Shortly after that they all got packed up into the box again. Until last night. I pulled out the piece of black fabric I had about a quarter of them attached to. Now I have just under half attached.


And I found a few more floating around so it might end up bigger than I expected. Oh, and not only did I lay them all out, I sewed the first few together. The bottom left hand corner is actually joined. The hold up now is that I want to get some more thread colours to blend in. I started with two shades of grey and white which works great on the blue's I started on but I'm up to that red patch, so I want to get some red and also green to use on those colours.

Finally, to celebrate the launch of a new Australian Quilting website, I'm joining the Blog Party Giveaway! Leave a comment and your in the running for 4 fat quarters, posted straight to you! I haven't actually chosen them yet, so you'll get a say in what you get!

Good Luck!

Edit: I have been checking up on the people who have entered and so far a large number of people have no email address for me to contact them if they win - they either have none attached to their blogger profile or have their profile set to private. Please leave an email address if you are one of these people otherwise I wont be able to contact you if you win!

It's Growing

That is my coffee table. That is half of the yo yo's. If you have any suggestions of colours I need more of please let me know! I need to work on that bottom middle bit, I had all these mainly white ones left over and I just didnt know what to do with them.

Killing Time

In one week I made more than 115 yo yo's.


This picture only shows the ones I made after I decided to see how many I would make without internet. In reality, I made about 20-30 more before I started putting them on the coffee table like this.

The total is now above 500. Yay!

More Yo yo's!

3/4 inch finished. Not sure what I'm going to do with them yet. Made from a few pieces out of the stack of 1930's 2.5inch squares I have left over from something else. I was going to only make pink, purple and green ones, but now I can't decide.

272

And I'm out of my pre-cut bits! Time for some more cutting. I'm about half way through my pinks and purples, but I can't really notice them in it!

166

459 to go.

To Appease Mother

My internet exile has ended! Firstly, these are two of my quilts hanging at a local quilt show, in a shops stand. Mine is the pink and black one, and the one to the right of it (which is just a quilt top, I'm picking it up on Monday, buying wadding and a backing fabric and working frantically to get it quilted in time for the next quilt show in a weeks time)

Here are a couple more civil war blocks and one in progress.


This one above is actually made incorrectly. As I was working off a black and white photocopy I didn't realise that the colours are reversed in the opposite corners! However it looks so good I don't think I have the heart to unpick it and throw two blocks away and make two more!



And then there is a new hand sewing project (like I needed another one). Its going to be a yo yo quilt!

I'm slowly moving through my stash cutting two squares of each fabric to make two yo yo's out of each fabric. I started on the scrap pile, then moved onto the spots, which is why if you look closely about 80% of them are spotty. I have 83 made, have the fabric cut for another 43, and to make a 25 x 25 quilt, will need 625 yo yo's! But remember, so far I have only cut the scrap pile and spots drawer, if I end up cutting 2 from all of my fabrics then it might end up being a wee bit bigger than that...
When I get to about 300 I will start whip stitching them together. I am waiting for a friend to produce her antique yo yo quilt (and in her fashion she said "oh I don't know where they are, I'll have to find them") so I can get a look at how they did it. I know its just whip stitching but I still want to see someone elses first!

Next post I might show you my 3 inch across dresden plate, but I need to find it first!

Also, I need to make this quilt.