Sunday 19 January 2014

At last...

... my real life To Do list is back to the normal 101 things instead of a squillion.

... I've had some sewing hours in my wee room and sanity is slowly being restored.

... I'm working on putting together those Siblings Together quilts!  (Not before time, I can hear the Block Drive Peeps murmur.  Sorry folks, but I am on the case now, promise.)



 From the 57 blocks that the generous Siblings Block drive ladies stitched up I laid out 2 quilt tops.  One 5 x 5 blocks

 
and a larger 5 x 6 one.  There was much switching and swapping of the blocks to try to balance the colours and look of these two quilts.  I could still be sitting there swapping blocks around, but finally made a decision that these were good enough.  I'm hoping that these will work for older boys at this summer's Siblings Together camps.  What do you think?

While I had a lengthy spell behind the sewing machine I went ahead and pieced two quilt backs as well.





The two remaining churn dash blocks were pieced into a red gingham panel and added to some lovely navy, red, green plaid yardage as a backing for the smaller quilt.  It's hard to see in this photo but it is actually very nice (and not pink as it appears here).


The larger quilt backing was pieced from an Ikea print that I call "the wanderers" (no idea what it's really called) and a piece of green/blue tiles print that I've had for yonks and yonks.

I'm so pleased that I'm finally making progress with these two quilts. Bit of a quilting marathon next though!


20 comments:

  1. they look great .. sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and SEW xx

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  2. Wow! These look fabulous and well done balancing all those colours so beautifully :)

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  3. boy or girl: they'll love their quilt!!
    Beautiful

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  4. So lovely, both of them! Well done!

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  5. I love what you are doing with these blocks, such a great charity!!!
    Esther
    esthersipatchandquilt at yahoo com
    ipatchandquilt dot wordpress dot com

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  6. Lovely tops!!! Thanks for the email....I knew you would do a great job!!!!

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  7. Lovely quilt tops. Well done!

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  8. Wow, you really leapt back in there lol Great job, I'm sure they'll be loved :o)

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  9. You have been working hard. The quilts look great. Di x

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  10. WOW! I totally love these! They will be perfect for some wee lads!! Well done! Jxo

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  11. they are both looking so good, much have been a major project working out which to put where and of course you have done a fab job

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  12. Look at you go! The pink back with the yellow churn dash is really gorgeous. Keep it up!

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  13. Well done Sarah, these look great.

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  14. They look fab Sarah! and my solid centres don't stand out too badly - probably due to all your switching about! Thanks so much for this - great to have been part of it!

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  15. They are great. You can spend days arranging blocks so there comes a time when you have to say enough's enough xx

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