Thursday, April 25, 2013

1 xmas item, log cabins & Anzac day.




April's 1 xmas item a "C" for the start of my Christmas bunting. From now until December if I do one letter from CHRISTMAS, I will have my bunting ready for this Christmas. Thanks again to Narelle from Pins & Whiskers for hosting this groovie idea!


Barbara made this quilt at a class at The Country Yard. This is the second time running this popular class, back in 2010 was the first class, remember I quilted the class sample? Also another one from the class can be seen here, all the same but different!



The centre block was a stencil I had that seemed to look nice to me. This quilt, measuring 68" square has heaps of ditch stitching!!!!



Tiny 'scribbling' & echo stitching to define the stencil design. This quilt is now proudly displayed on the bed at Barbara's house that is especially for her grandson.......lucky fellow!




It's hard to tell from these photo's but I quilted a feather on the checker board border. The cream logs have feathers, the red logs only have ditch stitching.
Here's the pieced backing Barbara made......................


Here in little New Zealand it was a special day called ANZAC day.






8 comments:

  1. The Anzac's were amazing as we fought side by side.
    Love how you quilted the logcabins..
    Julia

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  2. The Anzac's were amazing as we fought side by side.
    Love how you quilted the logcabins..
    Julia

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  3. The Christmas bunting is a great idea! Gorgeous new quilt and quilting, beautiful!!

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  4. What a great idea - doing the christmas bunting - & it can be something to be passed on down the generations & used each year. Love the log cabin quilt - lucky grandson that gets to sleep under that!!!!

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  5. A great start to your bunting!
    Love the pattern created by the log cabins :)

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  6. Lovely bunting beginning :) Will the letters be one colour or different? The log cabin pattern looks spectacular!

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  7. Such a good idea to have your Christmas bunting one letter a month. Love the log cabin.

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  8. Good start with the bunting. The log cabin quilt and quilting look fabulous.

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