Thursday 21 February 2013

Borders on the log cabin

Slowly, but surely my borders are coming together. I finished the 16 smaller outhouses and have begun on the narrow borders for either sides of the houses. They are in baby pink and blue, how sweet! I'm not a big pink fan, but they do look good together. I really have nothing else to say.... but I promise to load some photos soon!!

Additional: I now have photos to show of the complete house borders and the pink/blue narrow borders.

All the house borders laid out before sewing

Pink/Blue borders added to the houses

Tree detail

Sunday 10 February 2013

Log cabin progress

I finally finished the first lot of 12 houses, the ones with windows and two matching chimneys! I soon began on the other set of 16 smaller houses, no windows or chimneys and finished them off this weekend. Before this border is complete it needs four trees. These are appliqued onto a background fabric. I haven't taken any photos of my houses yet, but when I do I will post a couple of pics. As these are my first houses, they are pretty crap. I mean, how else are you supposed to ensure 12 pieces of fabric fit together to make a "pretty" house. In a real house your roof fits on and lines up with walls... but in my world nothing lines up, but I had sooooo much fun making them!!! Surely the trees will be aced...
All ready to trim up

Trimmed to a T


By the way I started again on my mystery quilt I began last April. This is the one that I had to order extra fabric from Australia to complete part 5. I was finally able to cut out the 16 required circles necessary. Who would think 2" circles would hold up progress for six months... I also appliqued the toenails of the part 4 elephant!