finished project

Well the sassy triangle quilt is finished!!!    Sunday I thought this machine quilting I will master,    well I tried it on a small piece and yes it fed through beautifully and even managed to use a fancy stitch so     loaded up the quilt and disaster, the weight of the quilt was too much and it would not feed so gave up! Decided I would draw circles and hexagons all over it and hand quilt. Spent the day doing this but only got about a quarter of the way and did not like what I had done so monday came and decided I would not be beaten so out came the machine again,  decided I needed to lift the weight off the machine so put 2 coffee tables on top of each other next to my left hand side which took the weight and used a longer stitch   guess  what    IT WORKED.  Have to own up to the lines not been  very straight but when I get better will unpick and re do them.  I am feeling so pleased with myself.  The binding I made from various lengths of the left over fabric which has worked quilt well.  Yesterday the quilt went into the wash,    confound it the washable pen I used to draw the circles and hexies has not washed out properly, not sure why as it washed out on a previous piece, fortunately I had only done them on the first 4 rows.It was a bit of a bore unpicking the hand quilting and after washing found one circle I had missed so must do that now the quilt is dry

 As you can see some of the fabric is a bit distorted, there was one cotton that was a bit thinner than the others and that has caused a bit of a problem, never mind I am not showing it to the quilting police and I can learn form my errors.

I wonder why there is so little about the quilting of quilts,   I have lots of books but only one seems to give much information and the magazines seem to be great at the piecing process but say quilt as desired!  I am sure someone could bring out a book to help us beginners.

sassy triangles, CQJP april, assorted blocks

May I wish you a joyous Easter celebrating the resurection of our Lord Jesus Christ.     Do not eat too many eggs!

I have now joined the rows on the triangle project with the Sassy quilter.  More than that I have the quilt tacked to the wadding and backing.   I have used cotton bump, not tried it for a quilt before, it is rather thick and as this is going to be for keeping me warm in the kitchen it might be too heavy,   time will tell.

The star on the collage is the left over from when I trimmed the sides.  The white brushed cotton cord is the backing fabric,  thought it would work well, it has little coloured hearts all over it. Sorry about the wind, it was persistent in blowing when I tried to take the photo.

I have also finished off the CQJP block for april 

I plan to put a spider in the web when completing the hanging,  not sure whether it will be beaded or tatted yet

I have also been following the quillow on create and craft that Jennie Rayment is doing,   we should have done 9 blocks by now but I have only done 8, the one missing is a celtic design,  I have not mastered the bias strips that have to be very narrow so I will substitute another block,  we have one more to do that goes on the back of the quillow,  I will use this on the front and do my own thing on the back!  The five pointed star should also have had binding on but I backed mine with interfacing instead.

 sorry about the sizes of them  they are all the same size in real life,  must have stood nearer to some that others when photoing,   thought a collage was the best way to show them or you would have been here all day looking at photos when you should all be stitching!!  The hexagons were done on the sewing machine    managed the Y seams better than I thought I would, we also had to use them on the goose tracks block.  So what we have here are   petal pattern,  kaleidescope,  dresden plate,  hexagons,  goose tracks,  pineapple,  5 pointed star and bears paw.