Star Gardener Block

Star Gardener block

Wow... finally got this together and the little block took nearly an hour, juggling with seam allowances to get it to press reasonably flat - I used so much steam I fogged up my glasses! Mind you I did stop for coffee half way through.







Here is the felt bookwrap I made on Monday, now completed. Mostly hand stitch as that was the day I took my Embellisher machine but not the lead.
This is made with some lovely wool felt given to me by Jean who had found a huge piece at a car boot sale. I put it through a hot wash and it felted up nicely, but wasn't quite wide enough so the lining was cut wider to act as a binding to control the slightly frilly edges.

Wood Lily Block

Wood Lily Block - 57 tiny pieces!

Carefully cut from templates and machine pieced. I think this one would be easier to produce using Foundations. I did unpick a couple of times and it took quite a while. The finished block is slightly more accurate one way than the other!

The Farmer's Wife Sampler

I have recently acquired the Book The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt which has 111 different 6" blocks. A group of friends, some of whom started out as students, quite fancy doing this with me and swapping blocks. I want to use up boxes of scraps mainly reproduction fabrics, so I am thinking mine will be predominantly Blues and Reds. Here is the first block, Postage Stamp, which has 36 one inch finished squares. Some blocks have tiny tiny pieces!