1st SAL.....Peg, Dale and I committed to stitching Anni Downs - A Gardener's Journal in March. I blogged about this on my blog thinking maybe one or 2 others may join us and lots of girls indicated an interest so I decided to start this blog where we can all encourage each other to meet the goals set along the way....March 2010 -March 2011...........
2nd SAL ......well so many of the girls wanted to continue on with another project and some new girls joined us and now approx 91 girls are stitching Natalie Bird's Tis the Season. March to Sept 2011...............
3rd SAL....many girls want to stick with the SAL so now we have moved onto Anni Downs Some Kind of Wonderful - My Favourite Things Quilt.......Oct 2011-Oct 2012.........
Where are we now.....
4th SAL 2013...is numerous smaller projects from the previous 2 books Tis the Season and Some Kind of Wonderful plus some projects from Red Home by Natalie Bird approx 60 ladies stitching together.........
2014 we had the year off..............
5th SAL 2015..........inspired to continue we are doing another quilt project.....Anni Downs newest quilt Natures Journey.....
6th SAL 2017.............A Holly Cottage Christmas by Michelle Ridgway.......once again the pattern is in an affordable book so it is easy for everyone to join in...........and you can raid your stash for the fabrics........or lash out and buy a the whole lot........this SAL will be run by Fiona aka Bubz Rugz and Raewyn........
Chookyblue........

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Enthusiasm is great :-)



Watering the Garden is done. I am starting on the Bird Bath tonight. Gosh, I almost did that wrong,did`t I, having drawn the Dovecote. Glad I now wrote to you :0)
Not sure which of the fabrics to use,always the most difficult thing for me choosing fabrics. Still looking for the very old one, probably not in the shops anymore.
So I might use what you see here.
Anyway,on the other picture you see the lid where I have one needle for each colour, makes it very easy when I change colours. The lid fits into the book-shelf,so it really looks tidy when I finish for the day. I also use the vlieseline on the bac
of the stitchery fabric. Then no colour shows through. But do not iron on it, because it very often glues to a warm iron. Well, better make dinner now.
Happy Stitching to you from a cold country way up north :-)

3 comments:

Chookyblue...... said...

love your fabrics and the threads look great all lined up in the box.......

Peg - Happy In Quilting said...

Love your fabric choice and what a great idea with the box...

Liz said...

How wonderfully organised that is. I like the idea of having a needle for each thread! I always lose lengths of thread that are still on the needle when I finish a colour!
Lizzie
xxx