Stitching News With Tooting

Early Sue's Beautiful Batik Bargello Quilt... Finished, and ready for gifting.
Toot Toot Toot Sue, it is a stunning quilt.
Made from only half of one Batik Beauty, Jelly Roll.
The other half, plus a second Batik Jelly Roll, will be making a much larger Bargello quilt... the next one though, will not be gifted, Sue's making it all for her very own self!

Jean Bean spread out her blocks to see how the quilt will look and... how many more blocks she needed. Jumping with joy when she counted up 'ONE' more block to make... after revision though, we saw she needed the one plus one more row making a total of nine more blocks to be stitched.

Lovely Lyn persevered with her Flying Geese blocks until she got them flying perfectly goose-y. This is one block unit that requires a very accurate 'scant 1/4" seam'... only if it's perfection you want... otherwise don't worry about it... perfection is only important in Patchwork if it's important to you...
It is important to Lovely Lyn so... my goodness... we work at it!

This is also Lovely Lyn's project, it's the quilt that the Tuesday ladies are working on together, sort of... they're all making their own quilt, at their own pace, in their own colour and fabric choices, keeping a close eye on each other and pinching sharing top tips... more progress as it happens!

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Karen added some left over Batik fabric strips from the Railfence design to her backing fabric, making it not only long enough but, also, much more interesting and fabulously double sided. We set about making her sandwich. A long shank walking foot is in the post so quilting will commence later this week too.

Mary made her Railfence table runner with beautiful Batiks.
Looking at this picture I spotted how well my very own shop co-ordintated with Mary's quilt.
 The Moda Bella Solids highlight the top right corder, the orange of the Fiskars scissors handles, the yellow chair, the  Pin Cushion thread tidy etc...
 all topped off by Mary's purple sleeves! he he he

Sarah No Clue didn't really want a table runner. She wanted to chop up a pirate themed bed sheet to make a cushion... so that's what she did. The red spot fabric will be stitched on for the first border... no further decisions have been made, yet.

There have been lots of bolts emptied since Friday... I have shelf space, phew! Thank you for your help with that... The 10% Opportunity will remain until the 1st June, just as I promised it would.  I was very sad to see some of my favourite fabrics being carried out of the door, never to be seen again!.. I believe I have fabric separation issues... he he he.
Helpful Hubby Dave helped me move some shelves... 12" left a bit... making it possible to change the set of shelving for a taller set... More shelf space... Hooray! Thank Goodness for Ikea!

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Not quite tooting time for Jolly Jo but we can OOOOH and WOW all the same. This is one massive, very heavy and deliciously wintry quilt. Both Jolly Jo and Sporty Sue had to climb up onto the car park wall while I stood well back to get the whole quilt in shot. It only needs binding to be made and stitched on... about 200 miles should do it!

Julie finished the top of her Chrisstmassy Railfence table runner. She actually made two but with the stripes in a slightly different order. Next time Julie comes, we will be making sandwiches.

Brenda Barbara's beautiful table topper. She stitched on a 2" strip of the minty green for an inner border and that will be framed with a wider turquoisey-blue border, to get it wide enough to look very posh on Brenda's table... absolutely stunning!!! 

Joan The Shop is thoroughly enjoying making her Sampler Blocks. It's quite a challenge making sampler quilts with Layer Cakes as you basically only have a 10" square of fabric to work with... which reminds me...
I finished My Layer Cake Challenge Quilt and forgot to show you, next time maybe.

Spinning Summertime Workshop

Shelving Crisis... 10% Opportinity

A few weeks ago I had to confess about having run out of shelf space.
It didn't stop the fabric arriving though, woooohooo. I ordered few more little trollies... they're full already... hmmm, 'oh dear' and 'yeeeha' at the same time eh?
There are many bolts with small amounts of fabric left on them and, as I really need the shelf space for incoming fabric orders, I've decided to do this...

From now, today, right here in this very early moment... until Saturday 1st June, I will take 10% off the price of each piece of fabric, no matter the length... so long as it empties a bolt... 
you may take the cardboard bolt centre with you too if you like!
Another opportunity... 
Perfect Occasions and Fabric Freedom fabrics have £1 discount per metre when you purchase one whole metre piece or longer... empty the bolt and receive 10% discount on top!

Stitching News

Fran finished her fabulous lap quilt... toot toot toot!
This design is proving very popular with our quilters, it's from the book
Two From One Jelly Roll.
Fran won her Jelly Roll in the Bunting Raffle at My Shop's very own birthday celebration in March. The great news is... she still has half a Jelly Roll to play with after completing this quilt.

See this is the exact same design. Jean Bean isn't using a Jelly Roll though, we calculated the yardage (in metres though...he he) so that Jean could stick to her chosen colour theme. I think I heard Jean proclaim that she needs about two thousand more blocks?

Maggie had made herself a little sample quilt with one of her left over Kaleidoscope Stack-n-Whack blocks. She wanted to practice different ways of quilting it before she commits on the big, beautiful, actual quilt... good idea eh.

Marisabel spent the day making her fabulous sandwich. This job can be painful if you suffer from a 'dickie back' so... pin a bit and rest a bit, pin a bit , drink coffee, pin a bit... eventually it gets done and you get to enjoy the company of lovely ladies... not to mention adding projects to your 'To Do' list.

Wendy used the Square Dance blocks to make a brilliant tote bag, which in turn has inspired others to want to try the pattern. Luckily there's a Square Dance Quilt workshop on Saturday this week, the 18th in fact... two places remain if you would like to see how the design works.