A BIT OF THIS AND A BIT OF THAT

I have been quilting a quilt for a lady at my group and have now finished it, I am hoping she will allow me to put pictures of it on here. Once she has seen it and agreed to that I will put some up, it is a huge quilt and really clever. There is actually already a picture on this blog of it which I took at my group.

Once I had finished that I could get back to my bits and bobs. So here not in any special order are the things I have been playing with of late. The first item is the April FMQ Challenge. I wasn't really keen on doing this as you had to trace/cut/re-trace, make a stencil etc etc it seemed like a real performance to me and I prefer to go at things totally freely, no lines to follow, I find I get on much better that way.  The girls on the Face book page encouraged me to have a go, so, here is my Journal page for this method, although I do have to say I missed out half the stuff we were told to do, I printed a picture off the web which was free copyrighted, then traced it onto the fabric, wadded up my journal page and below is the result...now I have to tell you this is supposed to be two leaves at the bottom, then a jug thing with some stylised flowers in it. When it is on the screen it looks like a scary face - which hubby says is me!! oh hahahaha - anyway this is it....

Front...

 Back...

 and here it is after I had done some thread painting and miniature quilting on it...

 close up of it being pinned out to stretch it -

thread painting does tend to distort your work, so you must block it...

 close up so you hopefully can see the quilting, which yes Di

I have done to death, hahahaha...

 Finished April FMQ Challenge and whatdyaknow?

I love it...fickle me!!!!!

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This is what I spent my Mother's Day voucher on which Annette gave me,

some light and heavy tear away vilene,

a fabric marker pen

and

some of those little magical Genie bobbin washers -

which I have given a good test today and found them to be FANTASTIC,

thank you Annette for my extra gift...

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I also prepped up several Postcards as is my want...

Dragonflies for a change...

 and my beloved Ginkgo Leaves...

These are what I gave the Genie washers a test on,

I used sparkly threads and that weird stuff and thread painted

all these cards in one sitting, machine was hot hot hot,

as soon as they are completely finished I will put piks here..

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Oh pretty sequins lots of them,

bargain, this lot £1 from pound shop,

I have a plan for these....

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OK, What is this then?

I was given this the other day to see if I could make use of it,

I most certainly will, but meantime,

Can you guess what it is yet???????

BACK...

FRONT...

 IN THE MIDDLE...

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 My Canadian friend Tessa bought this quilt from me a while back and has made perfect use of it,

well I should say Abbie has, bless her, doesn't she look like comfy,

thanks for sharing Tessa, love it.

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