Saturday 1 March 2014

HENRIETTA WHISKERS FINISHED!

As promised, I now have some pics of my Henrietta Whiskers quilt. I am so pleased that I have finally finished this awesome project although I still need to sew a label onto the back.

I machine pieced this quilt but hand appliqued it and had one of the girls from my quilting group quilt it for me. She has done a fantastic job. Here are some close ups of a couple of blocks.










Now that I have completed 2 quilts I can get on with the 2 little handpieced Civil War quilts I am currently stitching. Here is the first row of one of them and 4 more blocks I am working on.








I was recently asked to contribute a crazy patch block for a surprise 60th birthday quilt. The only specifications were that it needed to be 10 and a half inches square , have a bit of black in it and my name was to be embroidered on somewhere. So, with creative juices flowing and having only done crazy patch once many many years ago, I decided to Utube some tutorials and discovered a wonderful method that didn't require a foundation to stitch onto. As I have never used any of the embroidery stitches on my sewing machine, ( not that there are many), I decided to be adventurous. So with scraps of my favourite colour fabrics  I proceeded to just play and this is the result.






Ofcourse, I hand stitched my name and hope it isn't too big.  Oh what fun I had!!!  I hope you are having s
some fun with your creativity this weekend. Angel Blessings.

7 comments:

  1. Your HW looks fantastic finished. Your work plus the quilting is spectacular. You have done a terrific job with the crazy quilt block. Well done. Looking forward to seeing the CW quilt finished. Love those blocks.

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  2. Oh Ondrea, it was worth the wait to see HW quilt!!! It is beautiful:)
    Too cute is that wee crazy quilt block as well.

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  3. WOW that quilt is just gorgeous. I love the crazy block also.

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  4. wow Ondrea your quilt is gorgeous,what a wonderful job you have done and love your blocks also,hope you are having a lovely evening,sorry i am late visiting,i have the grandies over at the minutes.xx

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  5. Well done on this beautiful pattern !!
    Florence

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  6. The squirrels and pumpkin quilt is so adorable, I love it. Your block is a nice contribution to the birthday quilt.

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