FAL Quarter 4

This year seems to have flown by. This quarter is always a busy one, with the festive holidays and Mr Hare and I are planning a 3 week break in November. I managed 4 out of 8 of my list for quarter 3, so not too bad and realised that I am going to abandon 2 of the listed projects ( Abergavenny map quilt and a Hazel hedgehog quilt). My list for this quarter is far from comprehensive but I'm going to persist in listing too much ( why break a habit when there are no penalties!). So..

1) HST quilt

 

This is now a top and just needs quilting and binding. I was waiting for the backing to arrive which it now has.

 

2)Grace's quilt

 

This is now quilted, although very lightly and I'm not very happy with it. I managed to somehow load it incorrectly onto my longarm and didn't discover this until I'd quilted the first section. I was too lazy to undo it all, but it will make a good charity quilt. It just needs binding

 

3)Handcrafted Triangles

 



This is a slow burner which I'm enjoying but obviously has a long way to go!

4)Geese all round.

 

No further progress with this one

 

5)Map quilt

 

Although I've abandoned my plans for an Abergavenny map quilt, I started a small scale map quilt in Alicia Merrett's class at FOQ. So I would like to finish it

 

 

The batik strips are not staying in, unsurprisingly, they are just a guide to mark the roads until I've finished the houses and fields.

 

6) Retirement Quilt

 

This quilt top is my only EPP quilt so far and it took me a year. I need to quilt and bind it

 

 







7) Siblings Together Quilt

I'm Queen Bee this month, so when I get all the blocks I hope to finish this one this quarter.

 

8)It's a wonderful world

 

I really should do something with this!

 



 

9) Gnome Quilt

 

As if the above weren't  enough already, I have started another quilt for the daughter of a friend. She is obsessed by garden gnomes. I'm hoping to finish it before she finishes university!

 

 

It's a lot of fun and out of my comfort zone, which I think is good.

This is more than enough to be going on with!

 

Linking with Adrianne.

 





Pay it forward

I had a lovely surprise this week. Ages ago, I commented on Jo's blog when she had received a pay it forward gift and as a consequence she volunteered to make me a gift. I forgot all about it, until a wonderful package arrived.
Jo made me a fabulous cushion using shot cottons, in my favourite colours. It is beautifully made , including proper piping and a  covered zip on the back.

 

 

The back is equally lovely, with some skeleton fabric covering the zip. Jo also included a pretty hare charm and some yellow fabric because she knew I didn't have much yellow in my stash.

 

 

Part of the deal, to spread the love, is that the recipient of the pay it forward gift promises to make a gift for 3 other people.

 

I'm well aware that nobody reads blogs anymore in this IG age, but the first 3 people to comment on this post will receive a gift from me some time in the next year.