Time to Sew

Time to rest,

means time to sew!!

So I have managed to get all the borders

hand stitched to my rose star hexagon quilt.

But sitting around resting

means you might get decorated

with flower petals :o)

I told Miss Kalico that I was making this quilt for her room

and I think she is pleased about that because

 she wanted to touch the quilt while eating an ice lolly

and so I said 'Don't touch' and she said: 'But it's mine!' ;o)

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I have taken all the papers out

of this quilt and hope that as soon as possible,

I can iron this top

and get it on my Longarm.

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I took this photo

to show my tiny hand stitches.

I love handwork!

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Now I am on to the next thing!

Hand stitching the binding down on this baby quilt...

I feel the need to sew as much as possible at the moment

as I'm sure this 'enforced' resting won't last long!!!

On the back of The Lily Quilt

Not what you need when you're trying to do

teeny tiny stitches to secure your applique vines down...

 

But she is very sweet

and I guess she's showing her appreciation

for the art of quilting...
and she is lovely company!
 

She's sitting on the back of a white quilt

(thankfully, it's the back!!!)

But it shows all the papers that are still in the quilt

from my English-Paper-Piecing method

of Marti Mitchell's Carolina Lily quilt.
 

 

As I've said before, Marti's pattern is for machine sewing,

but I like to hand-sew.

I also like to leave the papers in until I'm done.
(Luckily I have left the papers in as they act as a cat hair barrier LOL)

I Paper-pieced the borders on as well. 

That required sellotaping large pieces of paper together

to make my border templates.

All good quilty fun ;o)

Hexagon Birthday Bag

Turns out Little-Miss-Kalico

shares her birthday with at least

4 of my friends!!!

One of these friends made my little girl a beautiful

hexagon quilt when she was born!

So for her birthday

and to thank her for the beautiful quilt...,

I handstitched this hexagon bag.

I believe it is happily living in Wales now! :)

 

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Yesterday. we had birthday cake!

I hope all my friends

with mutual birthdays did too.

Although, Little Miss-K

didn't like the candle very much!