Stitching time.....

Epp is going well once again..... Into Edwardsia....... It's growing...... As opposed to Lucy I am not making the blocks then thinking about the joining....... It's all happening at once......

It's been a great day but I have to tell you about it later......

Catch you later......

Chookyblue.......

Please vote

Please choose your favourite...........

i can't decide..........

A,B,C or D 

A

B

C

D

This was the block cut from the one piece of fabric..........

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue......

Crazy.....

What's a girl to do when they forecast record heat for Sept and strong winds..........

head to the middle of no where and enjoy the day at picnic races..............

38 deg (over 100) and dust blowing everywhere.............

lost all my money but we we had fun..........

Did you do something dumb and crazy yesterday in the heat????

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playing with Lucy2.......i've been talking about her for some time now.......around I love making the feature blocks of Lucy Bostons quilt Patchwork of the Crosses but I don't think I love it that much to make a full on second quilt..........but I am working on my own quicker idea...........

today I was trying to nut out my idea I have in my head..........

the blocks on the right and top are not the correct size backgrounds...........I was hoping to use a 10in layer cake that I had but they are not big enough........also testing out a couple of sizes on the crosses.......the bigger ones are winning......and all will be fussy cut.......

not sure if I want a plainer background or even another colour but this one was a bigger piece to try the idea on.......

and looking at this photo the stripey background second one down on the left will not be staying in there.......I wasn't keen on it but used it now playing as it was the right colour.............

What do you think of Lucy2???

Catch you later......

Chookyblue.....

Lucy love.....

Yes more Lucy...............no time to sew at home but in the car travelling or waiting for appointments etc...........

the green is looking a little weird in the photo..........not sure why.......

The block below is the other option shown above...........but after a few texts to friends one husband replied finally and the block below was the chosen one............I liked both and could not decide.........

Here they all are together..........
the ones i've got done recently.............
back to more gluing..........
It amazes me when you see them together what the feature is.........
+ or X cross.....

love my new mug........great size too.........

just perfect for me.............

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have a good weekend.......it's going to be 38 and windy here on the weekend......what a shock to the body that will be........... 

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.....

Lucy and flowers......

nothing much to say other then 10 hrs in a car as passenger you can get a fair bit of sewing done.......so once I had the cream on the other block in my last post I started sewing some new blocks............

I think it takes about 3 hours to sew this together..............anyone else timed how long this takes to sew together........just the sewing............have not included the cutting and gluing..............

some flowers along the way...........

this one looks prettier then in this photo........

these are all from Shiralee Stitches..........the ones I prepped last month........

these will be in Lucy2

this one now just needs it's next set of red pairs added on.............

Could have nearly got it finished but fingers were getting sore from stitching and after 4.5hrs with a 10 min break I had had enough.....

my tally for Lucy is over 50 blocks now............

never to late to start a Lucy.........

Are you doing Lucy????

How are you going with your blocks and quilt????

Catch you later......

Chookyblue......

Lucy prep......

Yesterday was a great day..............

I forgot on the weekend I was going to be home yesterday morning.............

It's one day at a time here some days..............

Anyway yesterday I had a supervise an exam for Boy Wonder..........

It had to be a quiet task, not too distracting and near him to supervise.......

YES YES I can hear you.......Lucy was calling........

So I sat and preped some Lucy...........all the unprepared ones in the tin from Sandy..........

I cut the non fussy backgrounds and traced out all the fussy blocks...........

I got the 4 that were not done to this point...............

pretty happy with that.......

then I had 2 cut in the tin ready for papers so I got them glued too.............

sometimes the fussy gluing is the worst part...........trying to get it perfect on the paper because if it is glued well it sews well.............

then one of my besties arrived for the night.........

she'll be back again Fri and Sat nights too.......

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue..... 

Lucy.......

Well these blocks are not really showing Lucy progress and stitching time for me at the moment....... It's just I finally got time to take a photo of the blocks...... 

One got finished in June and the other July........ 

Today is my first day at home in about 6 weeks and the house sure is showing that......

But I have found my way to the Chookshed and I vacuumed some bugs up...... Not sure how but they find there way in......

I had some cream strips in the house for backgrounds and brought them back out to the Chookshed and finally cut some..........I had run out of pieces to join in my sewing tin.... It needed a massive restock.......

I've been in and out all day catching up on heaps of washing...... Slowly putting things away......

Wished I could find a cleaner........ Just one every month or two would be great...... 

The boys ran away and avoided 'pettycoat government' aka house cleaning....... So I got slack with what I have achieved to.... Still in my pjs and about to go have a shower and change into clean pjs.....it's been nice to bum around all day......

I'll finish with the pile of Lucy blocks...... 

These two will probably go into Lucy 2 but for now they look good on the stack....... 

I've lost count on blocks but maybe these bring the tally to 48?

WOOOPPPPPPPSSSSS

I then went looking for my other Lucy stash.........

4 hrs later I am finishing the post...........

So I have 6 of Sandy's blocks in here.............2 cut and 4 to cut............

so that makes the pieced total 42 I think instead............

AND there are another 7 cut in the tin too.......

I have said I have a problem..........My Friend Lucy is an addiction............

I think these came from The Quilters Angel..........

yes they are for fussy cutting more Lucy blocks.............

And these ones were just because I like the blue and green and they are fat 1/4's............not sure of the range does anyone know............

Anyway........must go to bed soon........

hope you had a good weekend.......

Catch you later..........

Chookyblue.......

Lucy update......

Here she is so far...... "My Friend Lucy" is growing... 

The missing section is now sewn in......

I have 2 blocks I want to sew onto this and it will go away until I have all the fillers done and Lucy blocks with the extras ready...........then it will just go straight together........

Working on adding the cream sections onto the blocks and making fillers....... 

More cutting and gluing of cream and blue to do.......

probably a 1000 to cut and glue yet...........

If you're making Lucy to I would love to see your progress no matter how big or small......

17 of 42 joined.......

this is happening..........so exciting...........

Catch you later.....

Chookyblue......

Keeping the love of blogging alive

More Lucy........

No 5 was the winner in the Lucy options....thanks for your opinions as I was so undecided which one I loved the most.......hence why I made them into my new header photo.......

The other one had been kicking around in the Lucy tin part done for months and took about 20 mins to finish off.......

These will be going into Lucy2......Hope to have a picture of the actual quilt progress soon.......I realised I have done another filter row and started the next row since I showed you last......

Catch you later......

Chookyblue......

Keeping the love of blogging alive

Too many choices.....

After some messages with Sandy @ Shiralee Stitches today she also asked if I have been playing with "Lucy" I said no...........but oops I forgot at the time I had been playing with this block.........options, options.......what to make up now.........

This one will be going into LucyII as I have enough for  LucyI........

I started this post but then I popped to the neighbours for coffee and took Lucy with me.......working on background piecing.......there is heaps of that to do toooo..........

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2

3

4

5

Same pieces just the placement changes........

So what do you like the most..... 1-5

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I'll enjoy the next 2 days before the temps drop on Wednesday...........

might have the fire lit by the end of the week..........now that's exciting........bring on some wintery weather.........I'm well over summer.........

some rain wouldn't go astray........people keep complaining about too much.......we've had none.......

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.....

Keeping the love of blogging alive

Lucy Love.........

I am so behind with this post..............but it has been great to see some of the girls Lucy Boston quilts in progress........we often contact each other to see what we are up to or what do you think of this block.........

This is Sandy's.............She runs it as a BOM thru her shop online shop Shiralee Stitches........Sandy has also fussy cut the cross point blocks that make the 2in square (inside the grey) and they look great.........

the rest of us have done lots of her blocks but also made some of our own.........

It was great to see them together..........amazing the difference in the colour choices.................

Googy Girl is using blue.........looks so different........its the lovely french general blue..........

still amazes me how each block shows a different pattern........be it x or + some even the whole square........just by placement of fabric............

oh I love fussy cutting in Lucy.......

Here is an update on mine............6x2 so far.............we actually had mine and Sandy's on the bed together at GDITC and can you believe none of us took a pic............I was sure one of us had taken one........mine looked softer but in Sandy's the blocks popped out and showed off more............

Sonia didn't get to GDITC this year but I've caught up with her a few times since then and we had some great Lucy time.............we put these on the design board to see what they were going to look like............really liking the red too..........

Here is the stitching in the car on the Syd trip.............this one needed the extras around the edge but it is now sewn into the quilt............

I can't tell you how exciting it is now to have this coming together..............it sure is exciting to see those minutes, hours, days, weeks and months of stitching coming together...............oh I still have a long way to go but I can now see that this will come together and get finished............not tomorrow but it will happen...........

Hope you find some stitching time this easter weekend............

Catch you later...........

Chookyblue...........