WIP's - Works in Progess

Well I have finally finished the Garden Window Quilt - YAAAYYYY and have the sore finger to prove it from hand sewing the binding & label on. I am really happy with this quilt and like the FMQ that I have done. Now to save the money to fly to Melbourne to give the quilt to my MIL. I can't wait to see her reaction. I tried to get a photo on the weekend however because I wanted to get a photo the wind outside picked up making it impossible to hang my quilt on the fence to get a photo as it kept blowing off the fence. I don't have a space big enough inside to get one. As soon as I can I will post the finished photo.

So I started working on my next quilt for a friend who is getting married. The wedding quilt is a really quick and easy quilt to piece using HST and I started with 10" squares as you see below. The quilt will have 3 colours: a blue, a coral and while/cream background.

10" Squares

You place a white and colour square with right sides together and sew all around the edge, once sewn you then cut them diagonally from corner to corner as shown below and you end up with 4 HST.

Cut diagonally to make HST

4 HST

 Once I had sewn all the 10" squares together and cut them diagonally it was time to mess around with the placement of the HST. I tried two different layouts and ended up choosing the bottom one Layout 2 of the two pictures below.

Layout 1

Layout 2

I will 3 rows of big blue diamonds with some machine embroidery marking the big wedding day in the middle of the a couple of the blue diamonds. 

Block 1 completed

It hasn't taken long to get to this stage so the quilt top should be rather quick to finish except for the machine embroidery will probably hold up the whole process as I need time to sit at the machine and do this. I am still really new at machine embroidery. 

I also belong to a group on facebook called quilting guys and gals and they are doing a quilt of many colours monthly block. There are no specific pattern, it is up to the individual what pattern you want to use or can use different once for each month, the only stipulation is the colour. A different colour for each month. 

I saw on Pinterest a quilt pattern making butterfly's using the dresden plate pattern, so I feel in love as I love anything with butterflys. So I decided for my quilt of many colours to do this and have a different colour butterfly each month. How this is all going to go together at the end I have no idea but am loving the creative process this is creating.

September is Red:

I got a start on October as well which is Yellow:

An update on my Diamond Hill: I have one corner of the border completed and slowly working my way through another corner. However my life keeps getting in the way and not much progress is happening. Now if I could only make work go away just imagine how much I could get done lol.

Well that is my progress this week and I am quite happy with how much I have accomplished considering my work and personal life has become extremely busy and not likely to slow down anytime soon. Till next time.