Streak of Lightening

Farmer's Wife Blocks

is well named as a block! I think it took me seven minutes to make! Here are the next six blocks, clockwise from top left: Churn Dash (my version), Waterwheel (I have changed the colour values in this one), Contrary Wife, Basket Weave, another very quick block, Windows,  and Streak of Lightening.

I am getting on with these as they are preventing me from doing something else... but I am not wanting to keep making blocks that are almost the same when there are other blocks I really like that I would prefer to have in my quilt. I don't think I will be making another tree block, and can't see the point of Spider Legs when I have already made Wood Lily.

Here are some of the Journal Covers that the Westwatch Girls made on quilt retreat for the Bookwrap Gems:

Enid Carroll of Pennyloaf Patchers

Mandy Parks

The West Watch Quilters' Retreat

More Belsey Quilt Pics

Two more of Julie's quilt tops, a lovely soft blended design and a double four patch, a pattern that looks quite different close to from further away, or in a photo.

Blended quilt

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Quilt pics

Here is Carrie's Pinwheel quilt, simple but so effective.

And one of Julie's quilt tops, made for her son from his old T-shirts.

I have had a quiet and restful day doing washing ironing cleaning the kitchen and a bit of gardening, too cold to stay outside for long though!

I had a look at the peregrine falcon webcam on Norwich Cathedral and the hen bird has now laid two eggs and was sitting there in a howling gale every so often lifting her head to look round, for all the world as if to say: where is he with a pigeon for my lunch?

Farmers Wife again!

Six more FW blocks

Clockwise from the top left: Wild Rose and Square, Evening Star, Butterfly at the Crossroads, Wrench,, Wedding Ring, Single Wedding Star. Three of these are based on a five x five grid and I used Gilly's templates for them, thank you Gilly!

Belsey, Saturday

Lots of quilt tops have been completed by the girls, and I'll try and post some pictures next week. I don't know how to reduce the size of the files on the iPad yet! But here is a pic of some of the Winding Ways blocks I have been working on.

Winding ways

These won't be adjacent to each other in the finished quilt as I have cut a greater variety of fabrics now, but I am pleased with the colour scheme.

Farmer's Wife Blocks

Here are my six blocks for a six day retreat! Northern Lights, which I know as Buckeye Beauty, top left. Weathervane, top right, Puss in the Corner which is easy to make with Marti Michell set A Templates at centre left; Aunt Sukey's Choice at centre right, which is similar to Cups and Saucers but not actually a F W block! Bottom left is Railroad, Wild Goose Chase is bottom right.

I downloaded a foundation pattern for the flying geese from www.quilterscache.com (Marcia Hohn's  site ) where there are lots of free patterns and made them in pairs. Aunt Sukey's Choice uses the same size geese, and Cups and Saucers needs them too. It's a fairly easy way to make small ones accurately.

Belsey Bridge

Thursday.
Sandra who is sitting opposite to me has just completed her beautiful pale quilt. All machine quilted in sections, quilt as you go, and now bound and done.

I spent yesterday cutting blocks for Michelle's quilt. I sewed on together and found myself unpicking as I had forgotten how to do it and sewed on one piece in the wrong order!

Today I am going to show the girls the Bookwrap gems and hope to encourage them to make some for the Guild Tombola.