BOM 2013 -Pieces of time - A sampler quilt.by Lori Smith

It has been so hot here, so at times not much has been done.

I have now finished  6 blocks( ahead of the others sharing the BOM, as I am not sure if other things will stop me, and I don't want to lag behind )

  Appliqué block 1

Also - all my blocks will be 'Amish' I think, as they are all a bit incorrect :(

This one I did the wrong way around ... 

I always try to admit to my mistakes, cause they REALLY annoy me. But I have been too lazy to correct them...  

 Appliqué block 2

I found this one a bit difficult...need to perfect my style.

This is pieced block 1

In the pieced blocks I now need to get done 3 and 3... so thats next I think.

I have also made a movie to see if I can show you have I did the appliqué

This is the block I was sewing

Yes it also is "Amish" as I lost one of the petals of the flower..and added another circle!
So - nothing is perfect :)

I have uses a needle size 80, Sulky mono filament in the top, and 50 Aurifil in the bobbin.  

I started using my 820 Bernina- the thread kept breaking - so I changed thread to Superior thread monopoly..

It still kept breaking.

I then changed to my 440 Bernina machine, and had more success on that...I also put a new need in...and it worked fine..

This is the setting on my 440 QE Bernina I used..

I have been a follower of Sharon Schamber for some years now, and always go back to her videos to check how to do various methods.

I did that this time too.  So the way I have tried to do this, is to use Sharon Chambers video for guidance.

Pieced Block 3
 I made this block while I tried to work out the movie...takes me quite some time.
So now I need to do Pieced block2.

I am also sewing another Hop to It Block and some Grannies hankies ones too.
I had these blocks all sewn together, and I need to finish them and start the ones I missed...
Plus too many other UFO's!!

Ooops - nearly forgot Andrea on Australia day.
My elder DD has her Birthday on Australia day too - so its doubly special 

Piecing and Applique

Some more things I have actually got done today!! 

Nothing seems to match up as it should!on this block below.

This was meant to be Northumberland Star...I think I have a problem with actually SEEING the patterns.  I put the flying geese on the right way at first - thought they were incorrect and frogged them - did them again ...wrong sides to wrong sides...more frogging!

Eventually I ended up with this block - and I am afraid it will have to do.

Piecing is a problem for me...unless it is explained meticulously.

Unfortunately Andrea was missing.

This one is from the Hop to it block challenge - and as usuall I am WAY behind in this one!

SO I actually now have it sewn together - not just glued.  I took me quite a bit of time, and I actaully manage to sew it on my Nessies (820 Bernina) I found it was so easy to work out the tensiono for this.

I have three more of these to sew!

It is SO hot here again.  The cyclone Narelle is slowly coming down the coast.  By the time it gets here - its will be a Low and we will just have a few storms... and lots of humidity.

May get some more things done later this evening...

BOM 2013 -Pieces of time - A sampler quilt.by Lori Smith.

This is a quilt I am doing with four others...I think :)

I picked pieced block #6 ( made a mistake - it should have been #4)

I always have difficulty with pieced blocks...this one didn't go too well, but its OK for a first for this one.

This is appliqué block #4.

I am ahead of this one for the moment, but of course now I have to tidy up my studio as I cant find anything again!! 

I am also machining the appliqué of my Hop to it blocks...while the machine is set up.

AND I have been trying to make some postcards...something else that need practise.