Super-Sized Jared Takes A Wife - Finished for January

This quilt has been finished for a while,

but it feels like it has rained almost all of January!

In the end I'd thought I risk a photo

in the mud and grey cloud because at least it wasn't raining!

Of course it's King-size so getting a photo was tricky anyway...

But a few fallen logs came in handy...

The back is pieced 

and ended up being almost as much work as the front!

A close-up of the back:

And a close up of the quilting:

The pattern is one of Bonnie Hunter's.

'Jared takes a Wife' can be found under Bonnie's free pattern section.

I super-sized the blocks so each block measures about 24"

 And to prove the lengths I go to to get a photo...

Muddy boots, muddy trousers...

(and muddy quilt,but I planned towash it anyway before gifting it away!)

Jared Takes A Wife in Large Portions

My Jared Takes A Wife quilt

has been quilted.

Just needs binding...

Here's the back... 

 I've also quilted a baby quilt.

Just needs trimming and binding

(are you sensing a theme here...)

And I had a lovely quilty visitor

over the school half-term holidays.

 Anne came to visit and brought me this lovely gift...

Thanks Anne!

Little Things

I'm always busy

(or easily distracted),

this time experimenting with teeny stockings...

One could pop something even teenier in them...

Other small things on the go are these cakes

I made for Little Miss Kalico.

She loves tea parties....

Tea & cake!

My mother sent the boys some crafty things for their birthdays.

It kept them all quiet for a few minutes ;)

And I have finally finished quilting

my super-size 'Jared takes a Wife' quilt...

almost had too little batting...

Phew! Only almost!!!

Super-Size!

Although I have had this quilt loaded for a while now,

I just had not had any time to concentrate on getting it quilted!

But at last, I have made a start!

The blocks are enormous,

as is the quilt,

so I am sure I will be busy for a while on it :)

A 'Harvest' of Finishes

Tomorrow is Harvest festival at school,

I was stupidly proud of our 'harvest'

considering how hard it has been to grow anything

the last few years!

This is our donation to the church:

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I have had quite a few finishes of late,

but the weather is seriously wet, rainy and GREY!!!

So no nice countryside pics of these!

The binding is on my Purple & Green Oceans:

I do love this colour scheme,

I'm not sure I'm ready to redecorate 

the living room to make it match, but we'll see :)

A close-up of the quilting:

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I've also finished another baby quilt...

I'm expecting (ha ha - no!! not me!)

 lots of babies to be born or else!!

The back:

I really enjoyed this floral pantograph,

it looked harder than it was and very relaxing to quilt.

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Here's another one 

that I'm sewing the binding down on:

Quilted with 'Stars & Loops'

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I've finished a doll from a magazine my mother gave me,

I'll try and come back and credit the designer...

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I've also got this huge top to ready to quilt stage

by adding borders:

And I pieced a humungous backing

for it, so it'll be the next one to quilt

once I've finished the top that's on the longarm at the moment....

So that's it as far as finishes 

(or almost finishes)

for now!

SUPER-Silly Me!

So I decided to be smart,

but actually I was super-silly!

I decided to take a perfectly good

(if not excellent) Bonnie Hunter pattern

and super-size it....

To be fair to me, super-sizing meant that I could make 

'Jared Takes A Wife' 

with the 3.5 inch strips that I already had cut out

(for something else.)

And I would only need 12 blocks to make a large bed-size quilt....

However, the blocks are enormous!!

If you quilt, you probably have one of those nice long rulers...

those rulers measure 24 inches!!! 

I needed basting strips 3.5 inches wide

by 24.5 inches long!!!

Super-silly!!!

Anyhow, I made do and am quite happy with the final result.

Now an outer border and to quilt it....

Miss-Kalico didn't like me climbing over the fence

to take my photos

and almost made it over to see me....

... but only almost!