Tula pink butterfly

Tick tick tickety tick on the 2016 FAL finish list for Q2
I went to the Cullen quilt retreat last year armed with the Tula Pink Butterfly quilt pattern and a stack of 30s repro fabrics

And I sewed

Bit more sewing

Pant pant, more sewing

TEENY TINY BLOOMING SEWING

Bigger sewing

Finlay!!! Tummy rubs.

Oh guess who underestimated the amount of white quilt needed ....

Fast forward to this year and my poor long suffering husband is bribed with ice cream to pose over the balcony!

I paid to get it long armed, no way was this going in my domestic machine!

Flipping flowers flipped

Ticking once again from my Q2 list!
It all started with a class up North in Oldmeldrum. I *may* have been a wee bit fragile as I was staying with my best chum Irene who is ever such a bad influence on me ...
The class Carol Munro is well used to me n Irene :-)
I wanted to use Japanese fabrics.

It's sort of a mirror image pattern, one side is a constant, in my case the red, the other side is varied, you then cut out petals an reverse them. Clever huh?

My centers were white with a black stem and leaf. Carol suggested outlining the flowers in black. Good choice as I think the flowers would have been a bit more lost.
The blocks are twisted so it has a flow to it.

Et voila! Another finish for the 2016 FAL!!!

Another finish!!

And I remembered to take a pic this time!! :-) it was the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt for 2016. Alietare, how could I not do this one it was inspired by Florence!! So this is the second ticked off the Q2 list
I blogged about it here.
One of our staff is a foster mother, she asked me if I had any quilts for some distressed children she was fostering, well of course I do!
I rushed this plus one other into work for her and managed to get a picture in our archive before handing it over.

Yeah scan see the archive boxes in this pic! So tick tick tick off my Q 2 list

FAL 2016 Q2 first finish!!

Yea!! My first finish!!
Guess which numpty didn't get a picture of it before it was donated ..... Flippity flip!!
It was the Reveille quilt top, I rolled it over from my Q1 list to my Q2 list! Then stoopid numpty that I am I got so excited that I had found a good home for it it forgot to take a pic.
I blogged about the making of it here
I wanted to donate it to the weaving Musical threads blanket appeal but totes forgot to take a pic of the finished article .... Does that disqualify me? Hey ho if it does then that's no biggie. It's gone to a good home.

This was the finished top before quilting.