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........

Monday, February 28, 2011

Ready Set Go - Gardener's Journal

So today, it looks like my hubby will be outside most of the day bedding our cattle seeing how the snow has stopped falling...  I am not sure how long this will be in the mean time, I will be doing the laundry as my little boy, loves to change his shirts at least 5 times day... and the laundry piles up.

So I showed you earlier the fabric that I will be using for my Quilt and I have gone through it again, and picked the 10 fabrics as per the book, and with the left overs I will have enough for the inner border, outer border and binding.  With that being said, I might even be able to patch the other pieces together for the back.
Charlevoix - Minick & Simpson by Moda
So today, will be cutting all the fabric and then doing Block G, I have traced the Stitchery for this and I just need to do the stitching, but my hoop is too big, for being the smallest one I could find.  I am going to have to piece the blocks so that I can do the stitchery, until I find a smaller hoop.

Shauna

3 comments:

Love Bears All Things said...

Sounds like a plan...I like how the fabrics coordinate...good luck and keep us posted.
Mama Bear

Chookyblue...... said...

Go Shauna........love the fabrics and glad to hear your ready to go.........I cut all my fabrics except the extra's for special borders etc and popped into snap lock bags for each block......

I never use a hoop when stitching......hope you find a smaller one soon.......

can't wait to see your first block.

Susie said...

I LOVE your fabric choice but am really annoyed you have now made me want to do GJ too based on your fabrics!! I have a charm pack of Charlevoix and not sure what I am going to do with it. I have enough projects on my project list!! arrgghh. Thanks! Happy Stitching.