Wednesday 21 November 2012

Building houses

For the past week I have been cutting out the shapes for my houses which will complete the border of my log cabin. I am starting on the big houses first, all 12 of them. I began by making all the windows with doors. At my sewing group I attempted my first roof detail with chimneys, what a mission. I attempted to put my first house together, but have found that the sizing of the window/wall detail is not the right size (what's new). I may have to cut out some new templates and begin building again... No doubt there will be some unpicking to do.

As for my bargello, I haven't touched that one since I found out the last triangle wouldn't line up. It has been a little frustrating to think that I have come this far and now find myself hitting this hurdle that is holding me up, grrrr...

Tuesday 13 November 2012

Triangle rights and wrongs

OK, so I didn't read the directions properly and now I am up the creek... I formed four individual triangles. I was supposed to form two squares, THEN cut them in half after I completed all the detail, to form four triangles. My borders now appear to be up the wop. I am DETERMINED to get it right. I think sometimes "perseverance" is my middle name!!

I shall add a couple of pics to show you what I have done so far. I had attached all four corners to my bargello, but have since done lots of, yes, you guessed it, unpicking. I will not let this quilt beat me.






Sunday 4 November 2012

Bargello portion completed!!!

This actually happened a couple of weeks ago, but I was busy doing other things that I forgot to post the exciting news!!

I must admit after all the resizing, which was a lot and very timely, the finished product was pretty damm amazing if I say so myself. I had to stand back and look at my efforts in silence for sometime and let it all sink in. One year's worth of toil, happy stitching, unpicking, hiccups and buzzy happy moments. I think I needed the two weeks off from it just to let it all sink in - I had finally done it! Now to begin the borders...

Bargello complete
Ditto