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05 September 2012

weekend sewing

I had a fairly productive weekend of cutting and sewing last weekend.


I'm making an interlocking wonky stars quilt for the down under doll quilt swap - I cut and sewed all the wonky star blocks - its going to be fairly big at 20 inches square.  Its up on the design wall where it will stay for a little while until I'm happy with the final layout before I sew it all together.


I also cut out the blocks for the June, July, and August blogger's block of the month - it finishes soon so I'm happy to be up to date with this one - well, after I sew all the blocks together that is !

and I finally sewed the blades of the traditional dresden plate block together and then made the circles for both the dresden blocks from the craftsy bom - using the perfect circles templates that arrived last week.


I'm really happy I bought those little circles - its a quick and easy way to get a perfect circle !!  they're now pinned and ready to be appliqued to the backgrounds.


Oh, and before I go - I've actually done some more hexy flowers for the hexy MF quilt-along - 9 done and only 65 to go - gee - they really are slow going :)  you may have seen this photo before as I used it in my august fresh sewing day post the other day.


I think I need to up my sewing rate otherwise I won't be finished this one until the middle of next year ... on second thoughts ... maybe I should just make this a 12 month project so I don't worry about how slow I'm going - you know, I think I'll just do that :)

6 comments:

  1. More wonderful blocks! Oh, take your time with the hexies - enjoy the process - love the colors.

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  2. Wow! That pic you have up on Flickr does not do your Doll Quilt justice. They must be tiny star. Lovely!!!

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  3. Great interlocking stars! I am just starting to understand the love for dresdens and hexies!

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  4. Oooh lovethe stars, that's my aim for my African Bee quilt!

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  5. Looks like you are fighting back and winning! You may get so hooked on those MF Flowers that you finish early...? All projects look fabulous and I love seeing your progress!

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  6. Everything is beautiful! I LOVE your dresdens :)

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