Friday Finishes

It's been rubbish weather most of this week: torrential rain and cold enough I've needed my slippers!! In that sort of weather all I've wanted to do is curl up with a quilt and watch TV.

But I'm also aware that my school holiday is rapidly coming to an end, and I'd like to get my UFO list down a bit before next week, so instead of curling up under a finished quilt I've been under an unfinished quilt, finished the binding on . . .

This one: Five a Day

 

And this one: Tessellated Red and Cream Stars

 

And this one: Jilly's Garden Gate

 

There are, of course, plenty more UFOs, but these are now finished, yippee!

 

 

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Jilly's Garden Gate

A year or so ago my father and my aunt were visiting from Seattle, and we all went and had lunch with a friend of his, from the old days, and his wife.  Chris and Jilly have a wonderful house and after a pub lunch we sat in a quiet sundrenched courtyard having coffee and cake.

Opposite my chair was this garden gate

I love the lines of it, and it called out to become a quilt.  By coincidence my aunt had brought me some fabric - flowery fabric.

I managed to find some "wood" fabric and have worked on this on and off since.  It had never progressed enough to become a blog post by itself until now, all of a sudden, it's assembled, quilted and machine bound, so I present Jilly's Garden Gate:

I just need to hand finish the binding and its done

And I just thought I'd share a Happy Hexie collection - having tacked lots of hexies, I'm now in the mood for making flowers, lets hope I'm soon in the mood for sewing them together!