JUSTELLA'S GRANDMA

First flimsy finished this year.

2012-01-06T22:55:00.003+13:00

Well the title sounds good. But it has taken me all year to get this flimsy to this stage. It is so big 80" X 100" that I can't quilt it on my machine so I am thinking I will have to send it to a long arm quilter. I am thrilled to have finish it and really pleased how it has turned out considering some of the ugly fabric that is in it. In the photo it is folded in half as I couldn't find a space big enough. The pattern is from Bonnie Hunters mystery quilt from 2010. Roll Roll Cotton Boll.

Pipiroa Plum Jam

2012-01-03T12:37:00.000+13:00

Happy New Year everyone. My daughter gave me some plums at Christmas so I have been busy to day making plum jam. I was a bit worried it wouldn't set but it looks OK and tastes ok too. I had some on toast with creamed cheese yum.

Xmas Stocking

2011-12-31T11:06:00.005+13:00

Made this xmas stocking for my new grandson. It is made from fabric from an elderly Aunt who made xmas gifts from it for my children so this stocking is packed with memories of christmases past. I didn't take a photo of it when it was finished. I put a plain cuff on it with his name embroided on the cuff. His mother was very pleased with the stocking.

Crumble blocks

2011-11-16T12:53:00.005+13:00

I have been putting to gether crumble blocks the pattern is from Bonnie Hunters website (Quiltville.com). Here is a photo of a few I have made into square on square blocks not sure if I should just sew them all to gether or put sashing around them. What do you think??

New Member to the tribe.

2011-10-11T21:26:00.007+13:00

Well on the 29th of September we welcomed a new GS to the family. He and his Mum & Dad are doing well and I have taken a week of work to help and cuddle this new GS. This is their first baby. He is so cute and of course I'm not biased : ) This makes number 7 we are so lucky.

Mystery Quilt

2011-09-11T21:19:00.005+12:00

What have I been doing. Over the last few months I have been working on my Roll Roll on Boll quilt. A mystery quilt by Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville Custom quilting. Bonnie posted it on her blog last year and I have been slowly sewing 2 inch squares and small triangles together I think I must be mad. See the row of 2 inch squares set on point, they will become the border. There are some seriously ugly fabrics in these squares and triangles. But now that it is coming together it looks pretty good to me. I hope you think so too. Thanks to all of you how have visited.

Spotted Giraffe

2011-05-16T22:21:00.008+12:00

I made this wall hanging for the Cotton on Quilters exhibition in March. The challenge fabric was the spots on the giraffe and the leaves on the tree lots of fussy cutting. To see the winning quilt visit here. You can also find a link on Janice's blog to a slideshow of the quilt exhibition. So many quilts & so little time to look at them all.

In the photo you can see some of the other entries in the challenge.

Cotton batting

2011-05-16T21:34:00.007+12:00

I know I haven't posted for about 12 months but I have been making some quilts. And Amy is having another quilt festival thanks Amy for letting me join in. This quilt I made with some help from my fellow workers.

They made the heart blocks at each end of the quilt. We have given it to a friends daughter. She has been unwell and we hope this will be a comfort for her. I had fun quilting this quilt and trying out different quilting patterns. I used cotton batting instead of the usual polyester. I know it is a bit more expensive but if that is the reason for the better quilting finish it is worth using.

Extension finished

2010-05-31T20:43:00.007+12:00

This post is for Angie. The finished extension. My new kitchen I am very spoilt. We had about 35 people here for lunch after the wedding it is lovely to be able to entertain so many people without it being a squash. I forgot I hadn't shown it in my blog. It is lovely and warm with all the batts & doubleglazing something that has just become compulsory in NZ. Winter has arrived here we had our first frost this morning.

Above is DGD flowergirl looking beautiful with GD this is the lounge end of the extension.

I would like to thank all for visiting. Hope you are having as much fun, as I am visiting the many blogs and gorgeous quilts. Big thank you to Amy for organising the Quilt Festival. My first time.

Stella"s Where's Mine Quilt

2010-05-23T21:25:00.009+12:00

I would like to share this quilt with you. I made this for my granddaughter. I just love it. It was a quilting journey for me as I made it up as I went along. I did try to use a graph book to plan the placement of the block. It is nice when I go to my daughters place and see the quilt is being used everyday. I made her brother quilt for his birthday and the day I gave it to him. She said where's mine so that is how it got it's name.

Another Quilt Top finished.

2010-05-13T22:05:00.008+12:00

Here is a quilt top finished. I have made this one for my great neice. In an earlier post I showed the Ohio Stars that are in the border. That was about 18 months ago so it has been awhile in the making. The rail fence blocks in the border are made of flannette fabric used to make pjs in the 60's. This fabric was off cuts from the sewing factory my brother & sister in law worked in before they were married. ( My great nieces' grandparents). Another one ready for quilting.

I was given a book for mothers day (The Hand That First Held Mind, By Maggie O'Farrell). I have finished reading it already so I can recommend it as a good read.

Halloween Quilt

2010-05-02T19:37:00.004+12:00

Yesterday was quilting club day. So I took the halloween quilt along to pin ready for quilting. They have large tables to pin the quilts on. much easier than kneeling on the floor. Now all I have to do is quilt it. I'm not sure how I'm going to do that yet. Any suggestion will be greatfully received. Sorry the quality of the photo isn't very good.

This is the row by row quilt that we made last year.

The other ladies in my club who made the other rows did marvellous job.

2010-04-09T21:07:00.002+12:00

This week has been spent with the grandies we took them swimming on Thursday. They had so much fun.

Blocks from the past.

2010-03-31T09:35:00.005+13:00

Thought you might like to see blocks DH's Aunt made in the 1980's. I hope I can convince someone else to finish this project as I have enough ufo's of my own. The fabric is velvet curtain samples.

Do you like my stain glass windows wall hanging? I have it already to hand quilt while I am up babysitting for the school hols. The other photo is a small block that I am going to hand quilt also.

I couldn't decide which way to put the green strip. I think like the first photo best. The block is only 8" x 7" so with the green stripe on the outer edge makes the quilt look bigger.

Wedding Day

2010-02-02T16:02:00.004+13:00

Well I haven't posted for a while been busy helping finish the extension. At last it is finished, at last I have a kitchen again. Just realized I don't have a photo of it completely finished. Lots of half finished photos so I will post that later.

It was my youngest daughters wedding on Saturday.

Here is pictures of the happy couple cutting the wedding cake. It was a delicious chocolate mud cake that we eat for dessert with fresh berries and cream. Now that the wedding is over I may be able to get some quilting done.!!!!

We had wonderful weather on the day and all went to plan. So well done to the bride for being so organised.

Going batts

2009-11-25T19:55:00.004+13:00

We are going batts. This is what it looks like with all the insulation in the walls. Note the windows and doors are in also. All double glazed.

Building creates a lot of mess & rubbish everywhere. Oh well I guess it will all get cleaned up. In the meantime there is no time for quilting at the moment.

A busy Weekend

2009-10-27T20:09:00.004+13:00

Thanks to the help of my brother Ian we have the roof on the extension. Saturday saw the roof on the deck. We have some of decking down this makes it much easier to work from. The rest can be put down after the cladding is on. Sunday & Monday was spent putting the rest of the roof on.

And to day it is raining again. I still have to take photos of all the roof on.

On the quilting front I have sewn the rows of the halloween quilt together now I just have to put a boarder on it.

Row by Row

2009-10-16T09:17:00.006+13:00

If you would like to see the row by row quilts have a look at the Cotton on Quilters website they are all there. http://cottonon.blogspot.com It also shows the round robin Quilts that some of the other member made. I didn't feel up to doing that. I imagined myself getting to the last round and running out of time to get it done. Maybe I will challenge myself another time.

Progress on the building just wish it would stop raining we seem to have had rain everyday for the last couple of weeks hope we can get the roof on next week. I had better go and do some more. You can see what will be the deck now.

Row by Row

2009-10-04T12:51:00.004+13:00

Well yesterday at my quilting club our row by row quilts were returned to us. What a fabulous job everyone did. There are going to be some beautiful quilts when they are complete. I was absolutely thrilled with mine. I will show it when I have finished it. Here are photos of the 5 rows I did for other peoples quilts.

New extension.

2009-10-04T12:32:00.007+13:00

New extension on the way. New kitchen, dinning room lounge with a lovely big deck for indoor outdoor flow.

Community Quilt

2009-07-21T21:26:00.004+12:00

I've been doing the row by row quilt, a row each month so I can't show you that. I have made a quilt for a little 6 year old (well just the top for now I have until October to finish it). This is a community quilt. My quilting club that I belong to makes community quilts every 2 years so here is a photo of my contribution.

Bias Binding

2009-07-12T16:53:00.006+12:00

I have been making 1 1\4" bias binding for my eyemasks. This takes a while but once it is done it lasts a couple of years. Made from a metre of material I suppose I get about 40 mtrs of binding. This is the website for the instructions for continuous bias binding.

http://quilting.about.com/od/bindingaquilt/ss/binding_strips_4.htm

Above is a photo with the cutting lines. And a view of how to iron the folds using pins.

The Lounge

2009-06-25T08:33:00.002+12:00

The lounge with carpet down and some couches to sit on. this photo was taken in the afternoon you can see how much sun is streaming in from the conservatory. Looking good.

Family

2009-06-25T08:29:00.001+12:00

The brothers on eldest brothers 60th.

The carpet is down.

2009-06-10T21:46:00.005+12:00

Well the carpet is down no photos yet. We are almost finished the house. The photo is of the shower tiles in progress they are all finished now and we can have a shower!!!!

No quilting to show as I am doing a row by row challenge at my quilting club. No showing until all 6 rows are done. A new challenge for me.

Conservatory new furniture

2009-05-20T22:28:00.003+12:00

Here is the conservatory all finished.

2009-04-05T20:06:00.004+12:00

Were has the month gone. I have finished Henry's quilt labeled and a hanging sleeve on it too : ). I gave it to him last week. So it can go on the wall. The last time I saw it his baby sister was using it for a blanket for her doll. Hey at least it is being loved and used.

Henry's art quilt

2009-03-01T21:21:00.000+13:00

My grandson drew this picture in 2007 when he was 9. I told him I would use the picture as a guide to make a wall quilt for him it has taken me awhile but today I managed to pin it together so I can start to do the quilting. I am thinking of quilting leaves on it. I will try free motion quilting.

My ohio star quilt is not going so well the flannel is stretching so I have to unpick and I don't like unpicking.

Flag

2009-02-03T21:59:00.000+13:00

I haven't been doing much quilting but I have been sewing. Here is a photo of the golf clubs new flag. I have been sewing the emblem on to it. It is all finished now just in time for the Masters Games. Sorry about the flag looking backwards but I had to take the photo with my computer camera as the digital camera was away with DH. The emblem is on both sides of the flag. So I had to sew both pieces on at the same time. I only had to unpick one of the white stars as I hadn't position the underneath piece of fabric correctly. Glad it was the only one as each pieces is satin stitched on. I am not very patient with unpicking.

Wedding Venue

2009-01-21T16:58:00.000+13:00

My daughter is getting married next year and we are looking for a wedding venue.

Here are some photos of the local Golf club which is a possibility for us to hold the wedding breakfast.

This is all setup for a wedding views over the course.

Well I have 4 photos to show you but I am having trouble uploading them. So I will post this and try again later.

No idle hands.

2009-01-09T22:41:00.000+13:00

No idle hands between Xmas & New year. Here is the deck Jim built at no 1 sons house. Then the day after new year we were helping with hay making at no1 daughters home. A new experience I have never done haymaking before. Must be time I did some quilting!!!! What is that??

bears cupboards

2008-12-28T12:15:00.001+13:00

The kitchen see the cupboards to the right of D no1. lots of room there notice the new paint job too.

Below
is GS no 4 delighted with his new teddy.

Xmas Day

2008-12-28T09:25:00.000+13:00

Family at Xmas. Presents and the traditional spread. 27 family member all sat down to a feast.

The kids were happy with all their gifts. 13 children at one table and 14 adults at the other.

The top photo is the spread at the adults table.

Next GD no1 with GS no3 and the xmas tree with most of the pressies still there. 3rd is the kids table. Not many photos as most of them are all blurred. I had better read the instruction book for my new camera.

Oops

2008-12-20T21:34:00.000+13:00

I have been hopping around this week. I sprained my ankle on Saturday. In the background you can see some of the dresden plate quilt I made for daughter no2.

Ohio Stars

2008-11-14T20:01:00.000+13:00

I have been planning a quilt for my great niece using fabric that belonged to her great Grandmother. Here is a preview of the ohio stars that will be the outer boarder of the quilt. I am working on some Sunbonnet Sue blocks for the inner.

2008-11-03T20:44:00.000+13:00

On sunday I spent the day playing golf. It was the Ladies ladder challenge. 19 started at the first hole and one person was eliminated at each holes leaving one person the win at the 18th hole. And I won!!!! This is the trophy. It is the size of a b&b plate I have to give it back soon and then my name will be engraved on it.

2008-11-02T08:08:00.000+13:00

Yesterday was the monthly meeting of the quilting club I belong to. There is always someone there happy to show you new skills.

Ann who was sitting with me was making tassles and cord something I always wanted to know how to make. Oh so easy when you know how. Look at my first attempt. Not very good but with practice I will improve. Ann is going to do a class next year to show us all the different tassle you can make.

This is very good of her as her eye sight is failing she is a lovely lady ready to share all her skills.

2008-10-27T10:15:00.000+13:00

Well there hasn't been much quilting going on this week. And I have just spent most of Saturday & Sunday up at the Golf club processing the cards for the Wanganui 72 Mens Open Tournament. It was won by Riki Kauika a local lad he was 8 shots ahead of the rest of the field.

Thought I would show you may Happy Villages quilt it isn't quite finished yet. I still have the quilting to do on it. I have covered it with a black tulle. There is a lot of quilting to do, very fiddly. I don't know that I would make another one.

2008-10-19T22:10:00.000+13:00

Baby Sling. These are great for littlies. Just look at this little fella just 2weeks old and fast asleep. He looks very cosy in there. D in law was looking on the net for one of these and when I saw them I said I can make you one of those and so this is the result I think it looks really nice and when we took baby out in it we had lots of people looking at us. This sling is very comfortable to wear and easy to use.

And now another chair.

2008-10-17T20:57:00.000+13:00

Well we liked the dining room chairs. So next was the rocking chair and stool to have some treatment. It was off to the fabric store, in the morning and then an afternoon of sewing and look what we have. I did slipcovers for the chair. Useing velcro to fasten them at the back. My son has a very good staple gun so I used that to fit the arm covers and the footstool cover. I am going home to morrow so I will miss all these grandsons.

Aarons first shopping trip.

2008-10-16T20:52:00.000+13:00

We took Aaron on his first shopping trip yesterday, he is just 12 days old, and where did we go, to the fabric store of cause. As all quilters will know the only place to go .

We brought fabric to upholster the dining room chairs. This is a neutral shade I have taken photos to show you I hope you will be able to see the pattern. So I have been busy doing the chairs 4 in all. I was very pleased with the result. I think I will go home and do the same to my dining room chairs they are starting to show ware.

We also brought fabric to make a baby sling to take him out in. Picked a nice patterned cotton for the inner and a olive green drill for the outer. I used it to day and it was nice to use. Made it easy to carry him. I hope it will be of some use.

Of course there was a sale on so I couldn't resist buying some fabric at $1.99 a metre. I brought 3 mtres of it for quilt backings.

Happy Villages

2008-10-11T10:40:00.000+13:00

I did a Happy Villages workshop in September. It was great fun. I was think of things to keep the boys entertained while their mother was in hospital having Aaron. This is a photo of what they achieved using sticky back paper. They look really great and held their attention for quite some time. They are 5 & 6. Look at the cars and trees they have made. Tyson made the beach with shell fish. He had been watching a programme on paua so included some in his picture.

New Grandchild

2008-10-09T17:43:00.000+13:00

Welcome to Aaron James my 6th grandchild. Born on the 3rd of October. I am spending the next week helping my daughter in law Pearl with him. They have 2 other boys. Tyson & Justin they will be back at school next week. Here is the quilt I made for him. A fabric panel I got from the states.