A few more of my favourite things including a surprise!

I'm still working away on the parallelograms for the zigzag border on my Love Entwined quilt. Learning from mistakes is not fun - I hope this lesson sticks because I would not want to repeat it! Anyhow, I am making progress so hopefully I'll be able to stitch down the border and then get on to the next bit of applique!

As a follow up to yesterday's post I am sharing another four red work embroideries from my quilt A Few of My Favourite Things.

This quilt was hand quilted. When I look at my quilts that were worked by hand I am tempted to hand quilt another but I'm not sure that my poor fingers have it in them! And more importantly with all the reverse sewing I seem to be doing, where would I find the time?

The bow ties were hand pieced but I feel no overwhelming urge to hand piece anything other than hexagons! I do love my hexagons!

I love the old timey feeling of the embroideries in this quilt. And the good news is I found the book so I'll take a picture and share it with you in an upcoming post.

And now for the surprise! I've registered for Quilting Gallery's Blog Hop party with give-aways. I have a lovely give away lined up but I can't tell you what it is so you'll want to check back on a regular basis during the period November 21 to November 26 to find out and enter!

Right, time for a cuppa and a little more reverse sewing! So until I post again, happy sewing!

A Few of My Favourite Things

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I continue to work on fixing the problems with the tiny parallelograms for the border of my Love Entwined quilt. When I say tiny I mean that two of them stitched together measure 1 1/2"! I shan't make that mistake again. Rather than bore you with my progress I pulled out an old quilt that I made many years ago.

I was in a clearance book store back in the mid 1990s and I found a quilting book. There were some unusual quilts and the book was only a few dollars so I bought it. I've made two quilts from that book. The first was given as a gift and the second I kept for myself. I call my quilt A Few of My Favourite Things. What I didn't realize when I bought this book was that is was imported from Japan and the translation into English was not very good so making this quilt, especially the border, was a huge challenge. When I am able to get outside and photograph the entire quilt you will see what I mean! For now I thought I would show you the first four blocks from the quilt.

These red work motifs are all hand embroidered with two strands of blue floss. Not the prettiest profile on the little girl but that was what the pattern called for!

The wild rose grows in Ontario so I loved this little motif because it speaks of the summer and the cottage.

This quilt was the perfect opportunity to make use of my large collection of 1930s prints. The little bow ties were another challenge for me.

And here my darlings is the last block for today! I think it is very old timey!

I hope you enjoy these blocks. I'll show you more tomorrow and I'll try to remember where I put the book so I can show it to you.  For now it is time to get back to correcting my mistakes in Love Entwined!

Until I post again, happy sewing!