Annies Crazy World

So that Mum’s Quilt can be transported safely and stored without being folded I have made a Quilt Roller the same as the one I made for All that Jazz, Instructions for the basic Roller are Here and Part 2 describes the Full Roller.

I used Calico (Muslin/homespun) with left over Fabrics from the quilt to individulize it and T Shirt Transfer to put the name and an image of the Mango Tree on it.

The Nice matters award was created by Bella Enchanted

“This award will be awarded to those that are just nice people , good blog friends and those that inspire good feelings and inspiration! Those that care about others that are there to lend support or those that are just a positive influence in our blogging world!”

I would like to thank Ati and Linda for nominating me for this lovely award.

Part of the award is to nominate 7 others for the award, some blogs have mentioned that it should be 7 that haven’t been nominated before but I didn’t read that in Bella Enchanted’s original post so I am going with the first 7 that come to mind…

Sharon, Elizabeth, Susan, Marty, Maureen B, Allie and Hideko

Other matters…I was helping at Canberra Quilters Exhibition again today but had more time today to visit the merchants mall, I met up with Sharon and we had a good shop…

My Wallet wishes that I hadn’t had time to shop but my eyes are glad that I did make the expensive purchase of a portable daylight lamp so that I can have good light in more places.

I also bought some printable fabric sheets, which will make the photo appliues easier to stitch, some tiny flower beads and the green obeject is a cover for the tip of scissors…I will make a string of beads to join it to the clip which clips to the handle of the scissors.

Canberra Quilters Quilt Exhibition opened today, I had a roster to do and had a lovely day, the show always looks wonderful and quilters come from many miles around so there are always lots of people to catch up with.

I am not sure that I really enjoy doing Cast On Stitch But I do like the look of it.

I started with a row of overlapping Cast On Stitches along a short seam.

I then did a row of Twisted Chain Stitch (which done with the fine thread, doesn’t look very different to Feather Stitch)

For TAST Week 30 I elongated one side of the Buttonhole wheels and twisted them from one side of the seam to the other…It sort of works but some of the stitches are a Bit long and I had trouble keeping the tension (would probably be easier in a hoop but I don’t use a hoop)

With the finishing of mum’s quilt I also came to the end of a Visual Journal so today I have started a new one with a list of the things I most want to do next.

Once written I thought catching up on the TAST Stitches would be a good place to start so I found some unfinsihed blocks and have done this weeks stitch, the Crested Chain Stitch.

On the first seam I did alternating long and short arms on the stitch.

On the next seam I flip flopped the arm of the stitch from side to side.

Firstly tonight I would like to thank Coral_seas for supplying a drum roll, fan fare and champagne for a toast to my finishing mum’s quilt, I think I announced its finish without flourish because I was tired (only 3 hours sleep the night before), I still had to deliver it and I think that I was somewhat stunned the the frame had come together so well…I am excited to have finished it and would like to thank every one for their comments and all my readers for shareing my journey with mum’s quilt.

and as you can see the chair is clear…I went through it box by box sorting the bits into groups, I have taken it all back to the studio and put away everything but the charms.

What does one do next when they finish a major project? well today I slept in, spent a bit of time in the garden and a lot of time curled up in bed with the new Harry Potter book.

When I was speculating what next with Sharon a few weeks ago before I could finish the question she answered it with The Diamond Quilt, A Quilt that we both planned on making after seeing a Diamond Quilt made by Martha Bingley in 1889, at an exhibition of Old Australian quilts a few years ago…Readers of Sharon’s blog will have seen her Diamond Blocks and she has been pestering me to get mine started too…

But before I start that One I think I should finish my Box Top …and to do that I have got to find all the bits for it…to do that I have to get a bit organized…which I think starts with putting away the leftovers from mum’s quilt…Most of the time that I have been making mum’s quilt I have been reasonably good at keeping the things for it relatively tidy but in the last couple of weeks the house has taken on the distinctive look of a looming deadline, that is an untidy look but characterized by the piles of bits that have not been put away…I have been stitching in the loung because the heating is better than in my studio so everything I have carried up there in the last couple of weeks is still there, below is the chair beside where I sit and sew…guess what I am doing tomorrow…and then there is emails etc that I have to catch up with

I didn’t do detailed photos of how I did the frame because besides being pressed for time it is not something that many people would ever want to do…I was delighted with how neatly it went together.

To keep with the frame theme I chose a brown paper coloured fabric for the back and my sister said that it needed to have a framers scribble on the back so we used a lead pencil to write 1994 – 2007 the years that I started and finished the quilt.

I will do a full label with everybodies names and details but in the meantime I have written the details on the fabric with a permenant ink pen.

To give the frame shape I made a seperate shape for each corner that I put on top like the moulding on some frames…the heart in the design just seemed to be appropriate for this quilt…And whilst I am in the corner I will introduce you to the newest little princess born about 6 weeks ago.

To hang it I made the flap of the frame, that folded to the back at the top, into a rod pocket into which I have put a stick to hold the top straight and to the stick I have attached a chain, which came in handy for hanging the quilt out of the wind to take the photos…big image on flicka

5 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time…Mum’s Quilt is finished with an hour to spare….image on flicka

Tomorrow is quilt hand in day for the Canberra Quilters Exhibition, deadline for delivery 6pm..Ummm I think that I might be up all night finishing it but so far so good…I have been a bit apprehensive as to wether I would be able to make the frame seperate like I want to, over the last couple of weeks I have made it in my head a dozen different ways and it wasn’t till I cut the fabric this afternoon that I decided just how I should go about doing it and it has gone together better than I had even hoped.

I have marked the width of the frame on the back and the next thing to do is to lay the quilt face down with the edges matching the marked line and then fold the frame to the back and stitch it down…I will then quilt straight lines on the frame to make it look moulded…and then if time allows I will make fancy shaped moulded corners, if I do run out of time I can add the moulded corners after the exhibition.