Friday 29 April 2011

Pieced ... and a party

Here, at last, is last week's pieced top.  The fabric is Moda's Girl's Best Friend - yummy batiks.  

I did the pinwheels blocks, and joined them in strips.  Then I joined the strips to the fleece in my Quilt As You Go method - the one that probably has traditional quilters shaking their head sadly, but works great for me [click here for instructions].  It took about 45 minutes to go from 4 strips to a pieced top!  I did then decided to echo quilt each pinwheel block - except I then did one quilt line down the middle of the block instead of at the side.  With normal fabric I might have unpicked, but batik isn't too forgiving, so I did the echo quilting on each horizontal and each vertical - that might teach me to concentrate!

I have ordered some more of one of the pinks for a border then this will be ready!
Although we had a no-work day today for the Royal Wedding, I didn't get any sewing done.  The family didn't show much interest in watching the wedding, so I thought we'd have it on in the background - in the end I had a husband, two daughters, two boyfriends, and nephew and his daughter all watching the wedding, and drinking my tea!!!

After lunch we then moved out into the lane for a great Street Party.  Appx 120 people in our little road, eating, drinking, chatting - having a great time!
Hope you had a good Friday :-)

4 comments:

  1. The wedding was addictive! I couldn't tear myself away!

    Glad your street party was a success, and the quilt top is impressive too!

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  2. Hello Benta! Your quilt is so beautiful! Thank you for the tutoral! I'm sure I'll try that!
    The street party looks great and must be fun!
    Have a lovely time!
    xxx Teje

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  3. Your pinwheel quilt looks lovely!!!
    Glad your street party was so successful - we had a lovely time too watching the wedding (wasn't her dress absolutely gorgeous!) and was treated to a lovely lunch as well. So it seems a good day was had by all. LOL from your Mum xxx

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  4. How wonderful that the whole country joined into the wedding celebrations. I had to work (surprise ...) but I enjoyed the pictures in the evening. We got a full hour of "the best of the wedding" ;-)) Congrats to a finished quilt top - will check out your tutorial, it sounds like a wonderful timesaver !

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