Another day, another attempt at the dreaded free motion quilting. Today's pattern is 'pebbled daisy', and unlike a gentle embroidered lazy daisy, this one was hard work! However, with a bit of perseverance (and a bit of bad language when the thread threw a wobbly, tangled and broke), the daisy was finished ...... and I am just pretending that one petal doesn't look as if it is makong a bid for freedom and heading for the corner!
Next, it was on to this week's Farmer's Wife blocks. For the first block, I thought I would cheat just a little bit and not use the templates but do it the way I normally would, which was fine ....... except that I made the block to a finished size of 6" (so it actually measured six and a half), so a little bit of trimming had to be done!
The second block was also done without using the templates ...... although the fact that the finished size of the blocks is five and a half inches means that the pieces are slightly odd sizes. Instead of cutting the main pieces with the corners cut off, then cutting triangle to fit, I cut big squares and litlle squares, stitched across the diagonals of the little squares, cut off the corners, giving me nice neat pieces to join .....
..... for the finished block
Despite the trials and tribulations of using templates and the slightly odd sizes, I am enjoying working my way through the blocks.
I will have sashing between the blocks when I make them into a quilt, but for the moment I have butted them up on the design wall so that they take up less room, as I have quite a lot on the wall at the moment!
I had intended to make more for my sales table, but I started to feel a bit icky, so spent the afternoon napping on the couch! However having just enjoyed a very nice dinner (cooked by Malcolm) I am feeling a bit better. I am sure I will be fine again after a good night's sleep.
To finish, two photos of birds in the garden