More cabins

I have added the borders to my dark pineapple blocks and joined up the wonky log cabins they look much better than I expected, and I've added a narrow border on them too. Also got a couple more Farmer's Wife blocks made but have not yet found out how to add pictures here!
I have had a good time making some modern blocks with tiny inserts... Pictures to follow!

Pineapple blocks and home cooked food

Having a great time with three meals a day cooked for me and homemade biscuits for morning coffee and cake for afternoon tea!
My random pineapple blocks are joined together and fabric bought for the borders.

Exciting day!

I bought myself a present today - an iPad! I now have to get to grips with it and work out how to do what I want. Hopefully I can check email while I am away but I can't find my blogger password!

This is Whirlpool and is clearly the same as yesterday's block except for the arrangement of colours.

I did manage to get the turnings all going in the right direction this time but the dark fabric is a slightly heavier weight and was tricky to press. I should choose lighter weight fabric next time for a block with so many seams.
This is probably the last one for a while as I need to go and pack up my projects for tomorrow. And have a bath... showers only where I am going!

The Stair where I sit...

Here is Lucy in stair-guarding mode. Should anyone venture near the kitchen she's at the ready!

Today I had a look at the collection of blocks that use 16 half square triangles. I was surprised to find that there are five of them, and another five that use 6,7 or 8 half square triangles in the same size so I will mass- produce some on grids while I am away at quilt retreat this week. 





This one is called "Windblown Square" and it's the first time I've made it. You have to watch out for which direction the turnings need to go. I thought I was on top of it, but still got a couple out of position.

Dilapidated

Misty, moisty morning turned into a damp and dismal day. I had a round trip to visit all three Christmas fairs, starting with lunch at Lessingham where they were raising funds for the Methodist Chapel. 

I drove across country through coastal communities that hide from the North sea behind the tall sand dunes, past Sea Palling and Waxham with it's ancient manor house and huge and famous thatched barn, through Somerton to Winterton where the girls from the friendly quilt group were raising money for the Air Ambulance and local Hospice. 

On the way I saw another barn...

not so cared for this one! Ripe for a bit of tarting up I'd say.


Then back to the village for the Catfield Christmas fair. I'd sold quite a lot of raffle tickets for their hamper raffle and 3 of them won prizes so now I have a bit of delivering to do.

On a Roll.

Lovely sunny day today so I was able to get outside for a while when the lunch was cooking and plant up some new autumn and spring flowering wall-flowers and a couple of Penstemon that I got in a sale at the Garden Centre. I also gathered up the huge pile of dead leaves that wind eddying round had left by the front door.

It was good to get out into the sun after 5 injections at the dentist to fix a tooth which has been bothering me. I am off on quilt retreat next Tuesday and didn't want to be feeling too poorly to sew!

Here is yesterday's Farmer's Wife Block, Periwinkle, and today's Jack Knife - an interesting one - and a couple of unnamed blocks that I made with the bits left over from it.

I also had an excited phone call from my daughter who had opened the box of Roman outfits in front of her class and tried a few on. Fortunately M&S size charts were right and they fit well!

My own version - again

Here are a couple more small blocks:
Ribbons and Honeycomb. 
 


I used little squares on the corners for the stitch and flip technique and cheerfully threw away the small triangles!

The second is not quite as in the Farmer's Wife book... but I didn't mind as I wanted more hexagons. Not too difficult to machine piece, you just have to remember to stitch to the junction point and then reverse, not stitch right to the end through the turnings.